Between misinformation, comparability, and normal fatigue, navigating social media apps in 2024 may be fairly tough. It is a consensus all of us appear to agree on, regardless of the period of time we spend scrolling. In the event you ask builders, the reply to this troubling phenomenon is extra social media apps.
Annually, dozens of recent social media apps seem. Usually, the lifespan of 1 goes one thing like this: Somebody will get tired of their feeds, so that they create a brand new social media platform to fill a void. Then both: a) it falls flat, b) it is a good suggestion, and a bigger social media platform buys it, takes the thought, and sells the remaining for elements, or c) it is profitable. We’ve not seen a thriving new social media platform rivaling the giants since TikTok.
Final 12 months, we noticed an enormous uptick in social media platforms after Elon Musk purchased Twitter and turned it into X, a platform that now sucks. In response, builders created Mastodon, BlueSky, and, oh God, so many extra. We’ve not seen as many new apps this 12 months, however loads of apps have gained appreciable reputation, worming their method into our collective consciousness and, worse, onto our telephones.
Listed here are a number of the apps which have been on our minds:
AirChat
AirChat
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Do you keep in mind Clubhouse, the audio-first social media platform well-liked through the first few weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, solely to change into out of date a couple of months later? AirChat is like that, mixed with X and your group chat. It is an audio-first platform the place you ship voice notes to your followers, which AI then transcribes. It is also one of many solely social media platforms launched this 12 months.
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Cara
Cara
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Cara technically launched in early 2023, however for the primary 12 months, it had just a few thousand customers. Its reputation actually jumped this 12 months, and it now has practically 1,000,000 customers. Cara is an anti-AI website described as “a social media and portfolio platform for artists.”
Lapse
Lapse
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Lapse is an “invite-only disposable camera” app. You’re taking a photograph, and it takes a couple of minutes and even hours to “develop.” A grainy analog filter is added to your photograph; you may publish it in your gallery or archive it. It is like a mixture of Dispo, the previous invite-only disposable digital camera social media app launched by David Dobrik, and Instagram. It did not launch this 12 months, nevertheless it actually picked up steam this 12 months.
Threads
Threads
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Instagram’s response to Twitter’s demise, Threads, launched late final 12 months, nevertheless it’s some of the formative social media platforms of 2024 to this point. It has greater than 100 million downloads, and whereas I do not personally know anybody who likes it, lots of people allegedly do.
Supernova
Supernova
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Supernova is dubbed a social media platform for positivity, which describes itself as an “ethical alternative” to social media giants like Instagram and Fb. It launched in 2021, and whereas it hasn’t had as many downloads as the opposite apps on this checklist, it is one to observe as we search for extra moral methods to make use of social media.
Its premise is fairly cool: Sixty % of its promoting income goes to world charities, and it has “100% human moderation” to make sure the positioning is protected. Utilizing the app is loads like utilizing Instagram.
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