Mildly Infuriating

Bias. Good 'ol plain bias.

Unless you're very self-aware, one requires actual training and practiced mindfulness to break free from that in all endeavors. There's also some lack-of-the-outside-world going on too - one would need to have at least thought about world experiences apart from one's own, to consider alternative possibilities.

Where i live, none of the forms to apply for a flat ask only allowed questions. The respective agency even provides a summary, what questions are not allowed (like gender, religion) because discrimination potential but all ask at least two of them.

Pinterest... I got a Pinterest account because my wife recommended it after I asked what it was.

I got it. Very uninteresting. I see one image of like, lingerie or something, so I'm a heterosexual dude and I click that shit, think to myself, hey that's sexy, maybe my wife will look good in that.

Kid you not, my feed was nothing but lingerie and sexy stuff after that, and women's clothing. And there was seemingly no way to reset my algorithm or delete my view history or anything. I wanted to see stuff from my interests, like art, skateboarding, gaming, sports, computing, technology, what have you. But my feed was ruined forever.

My bad, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

They don’t

I think they shot themselves in the foot, one thing thats worse than no data is wrong data. And they are forcing people to produce wrong data.

They sabotaged themselves years ago by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don't realize the size of the site.

You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 2-50 times as many behind the scenes.

If you're a visual artist it's great for finding reference and inspiration material. When I'm not sure exactly what I want to draw I'll usually scroll Pinterest for a bit, find something that gives me an idea, then use Pinterest again to source reference material for said idea. So if I'm really in the mood to draw I can definitely rack up a couple hours in Pinterest a week.

Before they went all out nuclear with ads, promoted content, shops, and AI slop, I was using Pinterest a shit ton to look at fanart and memes (mostly stolen/reposted art, but real human art at least). I'd be on there for an hour or so every other day tbh, I liked making boards of my fixations and shit.

Then the app went to hell a few years back and I ditched it, because the web version sucks, and I didn't know about LibRedirect instances. Now I just don't bother with the place anymore.

Collecting cute images of fruit bats and wolves.

A radio presenter this morning was talking like we all have Instagram, I found that incredibly annoying.

Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?

i still don't understand what the point of that site is, is it literally just made-up SEO spam that they managed to convince people is even slightly organic?

I hate that "social media" is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. "Social networking site" is great, straightforward and descriptive. But "social media" encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for "traditional media" which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!

All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I'm too young to be this mad about it.

I seriously don't understand why anyone would use it. It's basically a platform that copies images from the internet and lets you bookmark them. Something browsers had since the 90s. Or you could just download the pictures to a folder, so you can see all the thumbnails.

And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I'm always taken to something completely different.