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How does one use Pinterest? I never got it
You look for a images
You get recomanded other similar images (thus engaging to a pleasant, but dangerous endless scrolling)
You can pin you images on "boards" (for instance I have one for fashion, illustration, etc)
There's probably a workaround to make something similar available online, but I didn't look info it do far
Similar? No no no. That's a shit algorithm.
Let me give you an example. I search for leftist content. I somehow get served a British guy who does floor refinishing. It's fantastic. I also get people doing skits about working in a restaurant.
A good algorithm follows patterns in people's preferences, not patterns in the content.
You simply don't get the usecase. I don't want Pinterest to show me stuff that I'm into. I want it to show me similar pictures to build coherant yet creative moodboards.
Oh boy... I'm sorry. I'm arguing on another thread against someone who is saying algorithms are inherently bad and we shouldn't use them. I thought that was you. I will try and remember to check context next time.
Yes, you're making a lot of sense. I think that's why I never got Pinterest. I used it for link storage, not idea generation.
Algorithmes aren't inherently bad. The fact that they are opaque blackbox imposed to you by the plateforms so you get addicted is why they are bad. The day we have the choice between multiple client-side transparent algos it will be better.
I use(d) Pinterest to collect fan-dom stuff and wallpapers. Each board for a movie, series, anime or game.
Nowadays I just search for a wallpaper and hope it isn’t AI, download it and leave the platform again. There’s no use on actually using the platform for what its intended (pinning, saving and sharing). Almost anything you do gets flagged by their AI bot for “inappropriate, adult or violence”.
I mean, they flagged a plant as “adult” content and smiling Luffy face as “violence”. Oh I forgot, their platform is just one giant advertisement crap now. 3/4 of the screen will be taken up by a video/gif of an advertisement.
Well Luffy is against corrupt government so anyone, even a fictional character would be violence to the corrupt government.
I use it heavily for images for TTRPGs. As a GM, I grab images of Monsters, NPC's, background images, maps. For the Star Wars RPGs, ships, NPCs, deckplans. I use TokenStamp to create the map tokens of those NPCs I found... It is a great resource fot that kind of thing. I think I have "saved" over 2000 images for use in games.
So it's like image storage? Or bookmark storage? What happens on the website you've pinned changes?
I've used mostly for Art references when I'm drawing because the image search is mostly accurate for my needs, but now it is filled with Ai slop without a clear way to filter content, so it has became unusable for the past 3 years or so.
I use it to find inspiration for projects where I only have a rough idea of what I would like to build/make. Usually it's enough to create a new board, enter a vague search term, add some things that seem fitting to your vague idea and then Pinterest does a really good job in suggesting things similar to the results you already added. It narrows down the search results by what you save.
Ahhh, it a good image recommendation algorithm? That might be why I never got what to do with it. I just saved things I found, I didn't search for new.
RIGHT?!?! It just looks like another Imgur to me