A checked point is not a review of the entire service
This directory identifies each profile’s primary reference and the point checked during the 2 October 2026 review. When a source did not provide usable detail, no new functional fact is added; the advice remains editorial. Documentation can require login, vary by country or become outdated.
To recover an account, start from the official site or app and navigate to its help centre. This portal never receives your codes and cannot intervene in your account.
Photo & inspiration
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| BeReal | Official reference ↗ | BeReal uses front and rear cameras to capture the person and surroundings. Posting late remains possible after the notification. |
| DeviantArt | Official reference ↗ | An artwork can be added or suggested to a group gallery according to its permissions and submission rules. |
| Flickr | Official reference ↗ | Flickr focuses on sharing and organising photos using albums, comments, notes and tags. |
| Official reference ↗ | Posts, Stories and Reels on a private account are restricted to approved followers. | |
| Official reference ↗ | Pins can be organised into boards and sections. A private board is visible to its owner and invited people. | |
| Pixelfed | Official reference ↗ | Pixelfed uses ActivityPub to interact with profiles on other servers and supports follower-only posts. |
| Snapchat | Official reference ↗ | Snap Map offers location sharing with selected friends and Ghost Mode to hide your location from others. |
| VSCO | Official reference ↗ | VSCO combines editing, community and photographer tools; editing, gallery and website features vary by plan. |
Conversations
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| Official reference ↗ | Group privacy and discoverability are separate settings: a private group can be visible or hidden. | |
| Threads | Official reference ↗ | Fediverse sharing allows a public profile to distribute content to other servers, widening its circulation. |
| Official reference ↗ | Weibo describes a network of multimedia posts, following, comments and reposting around public conversation. | |
| X | Official reference ↗ | Protected posts are visible to followers, who can still capture them. Existing followers retain access. |
Video & live
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| Dailymotion | Official reference ↗ | On Dailymotion, a private video remains accessible to people who have its link. Password protection is a separate option depending on the plan. |
| TikTok | Official reference ↗ | Even with a private account, your name, username and profile picture remain visible. Individual post settings also matter. |
| Twitch | Official reference ↗ | Twitch combines live broadcasting and audience conversation across gaming, music and discussion. |
| Vimeo | Official reference ↗ | Vimeo offers hosting, an embeddable player, collaboration and captions; available features depend on the plan. |
| YouTube | Official reference ↗ | An unlisted video can be watched and reshared by anyone who has its link; it is not private. |
Professional
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| Behance | Official reference ↗ | Behance offers creative project presentation tools and a Pro plan with additional project settings. |
| GitHub | Official reference ↗ | GitHub hosts Git repositories and adds planning, review and collaboration tools. Git is the underlying version control system. |
| Official reference ↗ | LinkedIn separates public profile visibility, post visibility and notifications about profile changes. | |
| Patreon | Official reference ↗ | Patreon distinguishes memberships with ongoing benefits from individual digital content sales. |
| ResearchGate | Official reference ↗ | ResearchGate presents itself as a space to share scientific work and connect with researchers. |
Communities
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| Bandcamp | Official reference ↗ | Bandcamp combines music sales and community so fans can discover and directly support artists and labels. |
| Discord | Official reference ↗ | Discord organises safety resources around users, moderators, parents and privacy. |
| Goodreads | Official reference ↗ | Goodreads allows tracking read, currently reading and to-read books and consulting community reviews. |
| Letterboxd | Official reference ↗ | Marking a film watched differs from logging it in the diary: the diary adds a viewing date and can record repeat watches. |
| Medium | Official reference ↗ | Medium’s help separates writing a story, editing it, topics and distribution after publication. |
| Meetup | Official reference ↗ | Meetup helps people discover and build local communities around activities and events. |
| Nextdoor | Official reference ↗ | Nextdoor describes a neighbourhood network with recommendations, listings, events and local information. |
| Quora | Official reference ↗ | Quora organises exchanges around questions and answers, for asking for explanations and sharing knowledge. |
| Official reference ↗ | Reddit provides separate help for users and community moderation. | |
| SoundCloud | Official reference ↗ | On the web, a comment can be placed at a specific timestamp on the waveform to discuss that part of a track. |
| Stack Overflow | Official reference ↗ | Stack Overflow focuses on specific programming problems and verifiable answers; opinion discussions and product recommendations do not fit its format. |
| Strava | Official reference ↗ | Hiding a route’s start or end does not make the activity private. Map visibility and activity visibility are separate controls. |
| Substack | Official reference ↗ | Substack combines written publications, podcasts, video and subscriber conversation, with free or paid content. |
| Tumblr | Official reference ↗ | A reblog republishes content on another blog with attribution. Deleting your account does not delete other people’s reblogs. |
Messaging
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| Element (Matrix) | Official reference ↗ | Element is a messaging application using the Matrix standard. A provider hosts the account; different applications can use the same account. |
| KakaoTalk | Official reference ↗ | KakaoTalk presents chats that can be organised into folders, profiles and Open Chat communities. |
| LINE | Official reference ↗ | LINE offers internet messaging and calls and presents an ecosystem of services beyond messaging. |
| Signal | Official reference ↗ | Signal encrypts messages and calls end-to-end by default and supports development through donations, among other funding. |
| Telegram | Official reference ↗ | Ordinary cloud chats are not end-to-end encrypted. Secret Chats use that encryption and are tied to the participating devices. |
| Viber | Official reference ↗ | Viber encrypts individual and group chats and individual calls end-to-end. Communities, channels, bots and group calls do not have that same encryption. |
| Official reference ↗ | Tencent distinguishes chats, Moments, official accounts and Mini Programs in its ecosystem; these functions do not all have the same audience. | |
| Official reference ↗ | Personal conversations are end-to-end encrypted. Business and AI conversations have a different context: what you send may be processed by their service. |
Open networks
| Profile | Primary reference | Documented point / limit |
|---|---|---|
| Bluesky | Official reference ↗ | Bluesky moderation combines automated filtering, human actions and content labels selected by users. |
| Lemmy | Official reference ↗ | Lemmy allows following a community on another server by searching its URL or full identifier. Rules are specific to communities and servers. |
| Mastodon | Official reference ↗ | Each Mastodon server defines its rules and moderation. The home feed displays followed accounts’ posts in chronological order. |
| PeerTube | Official reference ↗ | PeerTube can use peer-to-peer delivery to reduce bandwidth load on the server hosting a video. |
Suggest a correction
Include the profile, passage, language and a dated official reference. A commercial source can describe a feature; it does not establish superiority or guaranteed results.