Visionary Platforms (VPs) is a term used by The Visionary Syndicate of Edinburgh to refer to any growing social platforms that are lesser-known in the greater community and worth it for students to become early adopters.
Instagram-like
VERO
Supernova
Steller
BeReal
Ello
WhatsApp-like
Signal
Session
Twitter-like
Hive Social
Post
CounterSocial
Tribel
Spill
WT.Social
Koo
Plurk
TikTok-like
Triller
Lomotif
Huddles
LinkedIn-like
Polywork
BeBee
The Dots
Miscellaneous
Caffeine
Meetup
The Jump
Jodel
Yik Yak
Yubo
Great social media platform for photographers, videographers, cinematographers, and artists
Intuitive recommendation posts for music, TV shows, movies, books, games, places, and apps
No ads, chronological feed, audience selector
Great social microblogging platform for writers, journalists, and news
No ads, chronological feed
Mastodon
Project Mushroom
Pixelfed
PeerTube
Lemmy
14+ others
Element
FluffyChat
etc.
Mirror
Peepeth
Aether
For Web3 protocols and platforms, it is indecisive due to the lack of experience. However, Web2 ...
Great decentralised microblogging platform for anyone
Good selection of instances (servers)
Inter-server communication
No ads, chronological feed
Great decentralised microblogging platform for supporters for climate action and social justice (built on Mastodon)
A choice of a walled-off server (Project Mushroom) or a federated server (Spore Social)
No ads, chronological feed
Great decentralised social media platform for anyone (similar to Instagram)
Ad-free, privacy friendly, chronological feeds
Photos, videos, and stories
Small selection of instances (servers), but pixelfed.de is most populous server with ameteur and homegrown photographers