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What is Pinterest for? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 11 points 1 week ago

I agree with the other commenters, it is mostly awful, screws up image searches, and I've had the browser extension that blocks it from searches installed for years.

But I have also used it, so can partly answer your question. Basically, it lets you build image collections on topics, and has convenient (but also intrusive and data harvesting) extensions / apps that make it easy to add any image you come across online to one of your boards. In the past I've used these boards for home renovation, DIY projects, world building, D&D inspiration / mood boards to share with new players, etc. And as well as just gathering together the images you save, it's pretty good at suggesting similar images.

If it wasn't so awful as a site (the out of control SEO, demanding you're logged in, presumably vast data harvesting) I'd actually use it a lot more. But I generally don't, and I'm looking for an alternative. There's something called Hoarder that you can host yourself, which could be useful. But without the network effects of humans effectively tagging and linking millions of images, it'll sadly never be as good at suggesting relevant new images as Pinterest.