Phones cheaper than USD$400 tend to have 6-8year old chipsets

What area of the world are you from? Just curious where there is such a state of affairs.

This is definitely not true for Asia and Europe. It been a while since I was living in North America, but this didn’t seem true back then. Although I lived in a city and didn’t buy through carriers and never dealt with carrier blocking independently bought phones.

Perhaps North American carrier requirements have changed since then.

I recognise that Pinterest is a pretty big player in social media and seems to have relatively broad reach (first heard about it in my country maybe in 2011?).

It just seems Pinterest (as a product) is really subpar compared to say Insta, TikTok or even Twitter. I am not talking about their commitment against the interests of the user/public (they all suck on that front), it’s the UI/UX and subpar features.

One big one is slow loading and display of images. It’s always slow and they didn’t even try to design it in a way that would perhaps move attention away from this.

Their image categorization algorithm and source/context provision is a joke.

While I hate Google Lens with a passion, it does seem to have the most powerful source identification feature and it can come up rare variants/sources that are not available though other such systems.

My focus is on research though, not commercial activity so my use case is probably not important to Pinterest.

Their leadership actually made substantial contribution to enabling the Rohingya genocide.

Sure they weren’t the ones burning families alive in their houses.

But IMO knowingly focusing on avoiding and limiting responsibility instead of immediately working on resolving the role of FB in the Rohingya genocide, has a level of equivalency.

This is just one example. There are many others spanning a range of areas in including fraud enablement, user harm

Btw, I am not saying I would judge everyone who works at FB. Although I feel there would be few exceptions for anyone in a somewhat senior position or above (be it an a technical or business type position).

That makes sense. Both in terms of their market and how you could integrate it with your work.

That being said, its not a very a good visual search engine, I am thinking more in terms research type work and I understand that’s not how people use Pinterest and their needs maybe be focused on more general tasks and Pinterest features are good enough for the mass market.

For some reason, whenever I encounter Pinterest the first thing that comes to mind is a Potemkin village. The internal contractions of their platform are just jarring. Their whole business works on images of others, yet the have the most annoying system for limiting easy access to the source image and nagging for nagging to register.

Curious what you use Pinterest for in a business sense, selling art?

My association with Pinterest is trash tier website that does everything an image focused community is not supposed to do.

Their performance and general UI/UX is comically bad, you would have to put in effort to make something so slow and bloated feeling and with no good features to speak of (not even one).