I loved it for getting inspired, now its a few regular ads and then 10 chinese fake products that cut diamonds, paste that glues everything possible, gives you superpowers as a bonus.
Im seriously getting tired of it.
there’s Pinetta, but its in development phase. Unknown if federated
It is federated
If anyone has the time, I’d love to hear more about what people use pinterest for, because I don’t actually have any idea what it’s for but I know it’s popular. I think most people in my bubble (tech) just have it blocked from their search results.
I wanted to have it blocked from the results too, because it plagues the image search.
Its basically a pin wall, where you can organise pins (images) into collections. They had a good algo that recommended similar things for an existing collection.
I used it to look at how other people are painting their miniatures, to search for short painting tips and so on.
Like skele_tron said, I find it useful for finding images similar to existing boards/images. It’s like Instagram’s explore page, but you can look at an explore page specific to one board or one post. I haven’t been on Instagram in a while, but I think the saved posts feature didn’t have the ability to suggest (visually) similar posts there.
You can also save images in Pinterest, which I couldn’t do in Instagram. I draw sometimes, so it’s really nice to be able to download a picture and zoom in on it and have it stay that way.
On Instagram, if you like a post (subject matter, art style, mood) you just have to hope the same creator posts something similar. On Pinterest, you can scroll down below a post and it automatically gives you visually similar pretty images, by anyone.
Having an ad-free Pinterest-esque option sounds like a dream. I stopped using it a while ago because of all the obnoxious ads.
I‘d love to have that. The closest I know of is pinry, but it’s not federated.
