As social media platforms become increasingly political and algorithm-centric, many are looking for alternatives to the Meta, the Musk-owned X, or the banned-then-not-banned TikTok. But the next social media alternative could come from an unexpected source: BuzzFeed. On February 11, Buzzfeed teased an “Island” social media platform – and published a manifesto denouncing the AI and algorithms driving the biggest platforms. Could BuzzFeed’s upcoming platform be the answer for photographers struggling with the ever-changing algorithms?
At the end of a long manifesto about what’s broken about today’s biggest social media platforms, BuzzFeed Founder and CEO Jonah Peretti revealed that the company is working on a new social media platform that uses human curation rather than algorithms “that brings joy and playfulness back to the internet.”
