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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The infamous hacker? You'll never find him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I walked into that one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Just zoom out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's right there alongside diaspora

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

This isn’t really telling us much.

For instance, if we compare FB and Reddit.

Facebook is a social media platform that doesn’t offer anything other than connecting people and groups, or for business pages and events. It’s not useful for external searches to take you there because it tries to force you to logon or get the app every time to view anything, and the search function absolutely sucks. I’d imagine most searches for β€œfacebook” are people putting the term in google search to reach the platform or searching google to see if a person or business is on facebook. The search term is going to decline because most everyone that uses FB is already on it and FB is mostly pointless to search.

Reddit is a collection of subs , some of wich contain desirable information. It can be tech help, mechanical help, memes, history information, etc. So people absolutely search reddit + (thing they are hoping to find).

Iow, it’s a measure of usefulness via search, not popularity or user numbers. The more restrictive to search, the less people will look for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Who tf is googling linkedin or pinterest

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

how did pinterest so suddenly become popular? I remember the first time I encountered pinterest, and then I encountered it regularly from then on, just in random google image searches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The graphs are relative to each medium. You can't directly compare the popularity of different apps from this image.

Edit: Here you can compare them to each other yourself:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Pinterest%2CTiktok&hl=en

You can see that 100% of one app in this post doesn't equal 100% of another app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not what I mean. Even discarding any scale factor, Pinterest's popularity curve looks remarkably unique. It's basically the heaviside step function.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

In my mind I excused it ask having low but constant volume of users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

damn, google+ wasn’t even mentioned

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

You can see when they banned porn on Tumblr.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Are you telling me that I live in a world where LINKEDIN AND PINTEREST are the most successful SOCIAL MEDIA sites?

Edit, missed the "relative" part, so most consistent sites? Still weird.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Linkedin serves a professional purpose so I can see why it'd be the most consistently searched. Like even if people don't actively use it, at least part its purpose is for hiring managers to be able to search a person and have their professional persona pop up. It's the most accessible way to find a version of a person online that's not restricted or under a pseudonym.

That being said, people that actively use it for anything other than keeping their resume up to date or job search/hiring are usually nutjobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Pinterest is somehow getting traction with the kids, I have no idea how or why but they're all on it. I honestly thought it died along with the likes of Flickr.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In case of things like YouTube I assume that everyone just knows it and directly types youtube.com or opens the app instead of googling for it.
Or maybe I'm wrong and nobody types urls directly into the browser anymore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Honestly most of the time I've watched over someone's shoulder while they go to a website, I've watched them google the site (sometimes including .com) and then click on the top result. URLs are just asking too much of people ig

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Reddit is on the decline. We need more people to join the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

it's only that high because 2020 is when search engines became visibly enshittified even to normies and people started specifically looking for human written things

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

You can see when Snapchat decided the redesign their entire app and then I stopped using it entirely for the rest of my life lol.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is pinterest getting more popular or is it that people have spent the last couple years searching for "who uses pinterest" or "how to remove pinterest from search results?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

or looking through pinetrest to identfy a plant, object they couldnt do it on a google search, ive done that when trying to identify a plant species, or a cultivar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

No idea how, but it seems to be capturing the youth market, at least amongst my kids' peers. Maybe as an alternative to tiktok/YT as those are more likely to be blocked/restricted by parents?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Depending on how these are calculated, I do use $searchterm -inurl:pinterest a lot, when using google

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

You can see when Reddit became mostly bots!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Ugh... Also, was there ever actual "hype" for linkedin?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What happened in 2015? Why are there so many Finns?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Especially when it should be considered that Finland might not exist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Damn. So the real Lemmy generates essentially zero search traffic. Sad!

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