Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation(www.404media.co)

28 pointsby trinsic28 hours ago8 comments

tebbers21 minutes ago
I also noticed recently they changed their design completely. Instead of browsing your board and the things you pinned in the past, what you're now shown are completely unrelated items that you might want to add to your board, and most of these are things you can buy from other shopping sites.
micw36 minutes ago
And the world is drowning in more pinterest google image search spam.
kaizenb39 minutes ago
Pinterest sucks.
You can create your private archive with Bookmarker. Share collections publicly if you want.
https://bookmarker.cc/
JumpCrisscross5 hours ago
“MAUs were 619 million, an increase of 12% compared to December 31, 2024” [1].
[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/0001...
interstice4 hours ago
Not to mention so many ads it’s no longer usable.
- AdamNan hour ago
  Pinterest is so bad it's one of those sites I just skip over on search results. But it's been that way for years - nothing new.
  - conspan hour ago
    I always assumed it to be a honeypot for ebay purchasers due to the "copy popular ebay search results and then lure them to a link" methodology of "users".
    Pretty much the same with all AI slop sites (e.g. the first 10 search results) only usually they only care about serving adds instead of serving malware or scams.
cap1123533 minutes ago
Pinterest is the OG slop, long before LLMs ever existed
toomuchtodo7 hours ago
Any ATProto based replacements available?
- badgersnakean hour ago
  How would that solve the slop problem?
  - jasonvorhean hour ago
    And why ATProto when it would result in just another broken centralized service?
    mcherm40 minutes ago
    Because ATProto is specifically designed to allow being NON-centralized. Unlike Pinterest. Yes, ATProto is new and most of the traffic is through a single site at the moment, but it is specifically designed to allow for that to change.
Kalpaka10 minutes ago
[dead]