What are the hottest alternatives to social media?

[joelr]

The hottest alternative social media platforms as we head into 2025, according to the Digital Marketing Institute

We’ve grouped these social platforms into seven categories:

• Alternatives to X – Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon,
• Alternatives to Facebook – NextDoor
• Instant messaging apps - Telegram
• Hobby apps – Strava, Letterboxd
• Image-based apps – BeReal, Lemon8, Locket
• Audio apps - Discord
• Membership apps – Patreon, Vero

How many of these have you registered for? I'm on 8 of them!

 

[Ravenfreak]

I forgot about Nextdoor, my in laws use it to keep tabs on our neighbors and my wife actually found the listing for our cat Mochi on there over a year ago! I prefer to use Bluesky over X, and I'm glad many people left X. I never heard of Vero before, I use Discord but not too often.

 

[Nomad]

Frankly speaking, I have not even heard about some of these for instance never knew something called NextDoor existed. I know few but have not used them, for instance I haven't used Bluesky, Mastodon. I have signed up on a few but I am, not active, for instance Threads and Patreon. I am not very much interested in these so called alternative social platforms. That's because you need followers to become successful and building followers is very hard.

 

[Heatman]

If it's only Telegram that's the best and hottest alternative to instant messaging apps, thank you, I'm not interested in using it for anything. WhatsApp is very much better for me in every way. It's a shame Meta have clamped down on GB WhatsApp, otherwise it's the best. I'm using WhatsApp Business.