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I've seen some, but it's way, way less common than the major corporate platforms, but since there's no pay and no ads to make money off of, it's not too surprising. As the article briefly mentions, there's just too much monetary incentive to make junk vs quality content on most for-profit platforms.
Yeah, the beauty of the fediverse in that context is that you can just make a blocklist, and most significant communities have a general distaste for ML-generated slop, often to the point of making rules against it. And there’s not really any real profit motive, because it’s intentionally not set up to easily monetize shit that way.
There were those that tried, especially with memes, but they've been hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Now it's just the small band of pro-AI users that go blank whenever someone explains how generative AI works.
The article says it's ruining Pinterest?
Finally a good use for AI.
Seriously seems like these people are morons. "Keeps coming into our feeds" it says. Like the shit on whatever crappy platform you were on wasn't garbage and a waste of time to begin with.
People still use Pinterest?
Yes, I like to think of them as just people who haven't found Lemmy / PixelFed yet.
I was an advid Pinterest user until the excessive ads around 3 years ago, and that was right as the AI art was starting to flood the place. I just liked looking at Anime art, memes, and making boards of my favorite media cause something about categories makes my brain tick. But I feel like Pixelfed doesn't meet the exact needs Pinterest people have.
I might be dumb but from a quick test on both Pixelix (Android app I use) and the Pixelfed Webapp, Collections seems to be a collection of posts by you, not a collection of saved posts from others. They're either a draft, public, or followers only, not private option. Also the bookmark button seems to not work on either client either, like what does it even do?
Anyway, yeah Pinterest is a hellhole now, but until Pixelfed cleans up the UI a bit more and adds more features, I don't think it can really be called a replacement.
It may not be much, but it's our garbage and a waste of time content! 🤪
My thoughts - exactly.
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