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.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    My experience with Pinterest is:

    • Search for some recipes and you click a link to Pinterest it takes you to a meta page with a lot of pictures but no recipe.
    • While image searching you find a nice picture click on the link to Pinterest and it’s gone, just use the cached image instead.