lettre app
Handwritten digital letters to and from people all over the world you can be as simple or as creative as you’d like. Very wholesome.
noplace
The crowd is mostly younger. MySpace adjacent. Millennials will get a kick out of how much the kids today are still just like how we were. What I like about it is being able to flesh out a personal profile and it having nothing to do with sharing photos and videos. Plus, entirely ad free.
discord
This is already popular but something I use more in the absence of Instagram and Facebook
retro app
Now this is a gem. You can share by weeks of the year. It’s very intimate, private, and polished. It is currently offering free year subscription and free lifetime subscriptions if you get a certain amount of friends to sign up. Subscriptions allow this app to be completely ad free.
