• mriswith@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      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. 🤷‍♂️

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      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.

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          far from it.

          its a dysfunctional link aggregator. their entire business model is consolidation of other people’s web content. make a FUCKING ACCOUNT IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PHOTOS BRAIDED LEATHER WRISTBANDS

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    Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.

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    That’s objectively poor survey design. For questions like that there should always be an ‘Other’ option. There should also be a ‘None’ or ‘N/A’ option.

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    By not having “None of the above” or an “Other” allowing you to fill in the blank, instantly discards this data as viable. which makes this question pointless to even answer, let alone ask.

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      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.

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      I’m exclusively on Pinterest 100hours/week. (I forgot to close the tab with the image search for cool origami)

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    Snapchat for only texting other people

    Instagram for memes & some minor ““celebrities”” (YouTubers and some trans folk that give tips)

    Pinterest for outfits/tattoo designs/etc. I get memes from there and post to 196 sometimes.

    discord for uhhhh… discord stuff, idk. I scroll meme channels sometimes. and sometimes chat

    YouTube for 99% of my online things. Unhealthy AF addition

    Lemmy for more memes and news (not the best practice tbh) I mainly use just bc I want to support the fediverse and it’s better than scrolling reposted Instagram reels

    I don’t use any twitter/bsky/threads/mastodon type platform, I just don’t mesh with the type I guess. It’s just short political stuff that’s depressing and memes which I get from literally everywhere else 🤷‍♀️

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    Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn’t expecting that.

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      I can honestly say I have spent less than an hour in my life on all of those added together. Probably less than 10 minutes. Does that mean I am winning?