The panorama of social media is larger than one might think: it includes a lot of alternatives to the most famous and popular ones. These platforms came about as a result of different needs to break away from the mainstream ones. Whether we talk about censorship, privacy policies, free speech or real connections, you can find a huge amount of social media where all these themes are discussed.

With Off The Grid, we wanted to create a website where social media platforms could talk for themselves. The aim of this project is to make people aware of the auto definition of alternative social media through expressions and adjectives used to declare their values and cores: an auto narration through their own words. Alternative social media are analyzed and categorized by themes in the shape of an archive. The recurring and repeated presence of these themes within the payoffs of the analyzed sites will present an index of the importance of these social issues discussed in the digital world today.