Elsewhere is dropping exclusively at UCLA, then colleges across the nation, then the world.
OUR MISSION
Bring social media back to the way it used to be.
Post text, images, and videos, and your friends can like and reply. That's it—nothing more, nothing less. Elsewhere is friend-based, chronological, and metric-free; meaning there are no numbers, ever. This is social media in its purest form... the way it was always meant to be.
Social messaging.
There are instant messaging apps (iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger) and there are social media apps (Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, X). We stand at the crossroads of these two paradigms — Elsewhere is a social messaging app.
A genuine feed
See posts exactly as they happen. You can like, reply, or remove anything you no longer want to see in your feed.
Real notifications
Hear from your friends, never friends of friends or random accounts. Just the interactions you actually care about.
Find friends
Find new people with a unique access code. Add and invite existing friends through your contact list.
A genuine feed
See posts exactly as they happen. You can like, reply, or remove anything you no longer want to see in your feed.
Real notifications
Hear from your friends, never friends of friends or random accounts. Just the interactions you actually care about.
Find friends
Find new people in your community with a unique access code and enable your contacts to add or invite existing friends.
Finally, a social platform built for you.
Our vow to you
Everything we do, every feature we build, and every element we design will be centered around keeping you connected with the people you care about most.
A platform free from curation
We removed numbers associated with likes, replies, or friends so you can post whatever you want, whenever you want.
Connect without distraction
Come to Elsewhere to do four things: Post what you are up to, see what your friends are up to, reply, then leave.
Our vow to you
Everything we do, every feature we build, and every element we design will be centered around keeping you connected with the people you care about most.
A platform free from curation
We removed numbers associated with likes, replies, or friends so you can post whatever you want, whenever you want.
Connect without distraction
Come to Elsewhere to do four things: Post what you are up to, see what your friends are up to, reply, then leave.
Our Story
We started Elsewhere because we know how amazing social media can be. We know, because we experienced it. We remember logging on to AIM after school and we remember signing up for MySpace. We remember the early days of Facebook and the early days of Instagram. Back then, social media was pure and its purpose was simple: It was an incredible way to stay connected with the daily lives of our friends and family. It was really a lot of fun.
Over time, social media became a place that connected you with people outside of our friends and family, and it did so on a massive scale; something that humans had never experienced before. Fast forward to today, and we can definitively say that this is when things (society, human behavior, individuals) started to break down. You see, as much as we want to believe that humans can handle this level of connection on a mass scale, they simply cannot. They never have, they don't need to, and they shouldn't be forced to.
Force is a strong word here, but it is the unfortunate truth. The most used social networks that exist today are intent on keeping you connected with people outside of your friends and family. You log on to Instagram, X, TikTok, or Facebook, and the first thing you see are posts from people you have never met before - strangers. This is wrong.
And holy shit, I guess this is what we believe, right? Humans should not be forced to stay connected with people outside of their community. Why? Because a strong sense of community is deeply woven into our DNA, and when that structure begins to break, society and individuals break with it. The purpose of Elsewhere is to prevent that structure from breaking further than it already has. The purpose of Elsewhere is to connect and reconnect you with your friends, new and old.
