Replied to thread by Damian Cugley and Nina Stössinger (Twitter)

The commercialized shitshow that social media is really makes me respect the openness of the early web. Imagine tweets were an open standard, like HTML, hostable anywhere; clients were just rendering that, not owning the format; if one was being stupid you just use another one.
— Nina Stössinger (@ninastoessinger) November 17, 2020

There is this thing called IndieWeb which is all about running your own server but being able to exchange likes & reposts via simple-ish protocols …
— Damian Cugley (@damiancugley) November 17, 2020

It doesn’t need to be that difficult if you don’t want the overhead and work. There are already a few paid IndieWeb friendly services that do the work for you:
#WinningTheWebBackOneSiteAtATime