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What is Pinterest for? (pawb.social)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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The only time I seem to interact with Pinterest is when I’m searching for images of something on my phone, let’s say “pictures of mountains”. I want to get the image in full res so I go to the site, then I can’t copy it or download it.

From these brief interactions and exploring the site I just don’t see the appeal. Pinterest just seems like a terrible image search engine with the ‘feature?’ that every few scrolls pulls up similar-ish categories to the image search you did(Mausoleum might bring up Pharaohs for example). It could be that I’ve just never taken the time to use it properly, so I thought I would ask people: what is Pinterest good for / why does it exist.

Hopefully is not too harsh I am high atm.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

High too ATM, that's exactly what its for, images.

I was suprised to learn most teens exclusively use Pinterest for looking up images, as opposed to web searching.

it also has features like creating boards, for example you can "pin" images to your board, and others can see it. So people try collecting the most images or the rarest ones of a specific person or something else idk, to compete.

I hate the platform, because it puts the whole algorithm thing on images, essentially creating doomscrolling potential for what was supposed to be an image host & share platform. Also its a really fucking slow app & website. +ads, so I wouldn't ever use it anyways.