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Was Pinetta Abandoned? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I'm trying to move a lot of my social media habits to the Fediverse in light of digital ID/mass surveillance bills being pushed in Canada, and I remember hearing about Pinetta, a federated Pinterest alternative awhile back. Does anyone know what's happened to it? It doesn't look to have had any updates in a few years. I'm wondering if it's been abandoned?

Does anyone know of any other federated Pinterest alternatives? Pinterest has been how a lot of small businesses survive over the years. It'd be wonderful if there was a federated alternative to it.

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

Haha it definitely isn't my favorite platform in the world but for business owners, it's generally looked at more as a visual search engine rather than a social media platform. When people go to Pinterest, they often do it with the intention of either wanting to learn something or wanting to buy something. A lot of people use Pinterest to get inspiration for things, which from a business standpoint, is the perfect opportunity to promote products they're searching for.

I design and sell digital products. Planners, journals, things of that nature. 😊 I also make a lot of handmade things.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That makes sense. Both in terms of their market and how you could integrate it with your work.

    That being said, its not a very a good visual search engine, I am thinking more in terms research type work and I understand that's not how people use Pinterest and their needs maybe be focused on more general tasks and Pinterest features are good enough for the mass market.

    For some reason, whenever I encounter Pinterest the first thing that comes to mind is a Potemkin village. The internal contractions of their platform are just jarring. Their whole business works on images of others, yet the have the most annoying system for limiting easy access to the source image and nagging for nagging to register.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Haha yeah it's definitely not perfect. I think the ones who reap the most benefits from Pinterest are bloggers, who promote their products in their blog posts. Another thing is that I think about 80%ish of their traffic comes from Google. If there was some kind of Federated alternative, ideally, Google wouldn't be involved in being responsible for the success of it. I'd love to see someone try to make something better than Pinterest though. More federation options for small business would be amazing so we have a place to survive outside of big tech. Flohmarkt is looking to be a good solution to that though! Just gotta get some servers up in Canada 😄

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I recognise that Pinterest is a pretty big player in social media and seems to have relatively broad reach (first heard about it in my country maybe in 2011?).

    It just seems Pinterest (as a product) is really subpar compared to say Insta, TikTok or even Twitter. I am not talking about their commitment against the interests of the user/public (they all suck on that front), it's the UI/UX and subpar features.

    One big one is slow loading and display of images. It's always slow and they didn't even try to design it in a way that would perhaps move attention away from this.

    Their image categorization algorithm and source/context provision is a joke.

    While I hate Google Lens with a passion, it does seem to have the most powerful source identification feature and it can come up rare variants/sources that are not available though other such systems.

    My focus is on research though, not commercial activity so my use case is probably not important to Pinterest.

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