Prediction:

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

Prediction:

Pinterest, as people have known it, will be dead within five years. I honestly don't think the leadership there has any idea what their userbase actually wants. The End of UX continues…

(I wonder if it's time for a #Fediverse version of Pinterest. Scratch that, it is definitely time!)

https://www.theverge.com/news/868531/pinterest-layoffs-cuts-15-percent-ai-transformation

[sauc3@hachyderm.io]

@jaredwhite

I would be surprised if it lasted two. My wife says it's so filled with "AI" slop that it's unusable. Seeing the article indicating they are laying off their staff to go harder on "AI", I would update my skepticism to their surviving the year. Like I would be surprised if they last the entire year.

What an own goal!

[codedude@floss.social]

@jaredwhite Funny. there are several open positions in Pinterest Mexico

[krra@indieweb.social]

@jaredwhite yes, let’s build our own! (no /s, totally serious)

[sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com]

@jaredwhite @phillycodehound

I need to look at #pinterest again. i haven't seen it in years. maybe a decade.

[matt@oslo.town]

@jaredwhite The one feature I want #Pinterest to implement right now is a "Flag as AI" button. And maybe a filter to match.

Right now I'm just Reporting all AI content at Conspiracy Theory because there's no real option to report it otherwise. 😩

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@matt Pinterest being filled with AI slop makes no more sense to me than if Etsy started saying hey, we're going to compete with Temu now.

Like it's so antithetical to the point of what it was originally supposed to be, it makes my head spin. 😵‍💫

[cleanweb@masto.nu]

@jaredwhite
Isn't #Pixelfed the alternative?

https://pixelfed.org/

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@CleanWeb No, Pinterest != Instagram. They work very differently and serve different use cases.