I never used Pinterest much, but as an art teacher my wife used to find it useful. Now, the proportion of advertisements as risen to the point where Pinterest is basically a collection of ads with an occasionally interesting piece of information hidden among them.
My personal objection against Pinterest is the big splash screen "make an account now" in your face. You don't need a G+ account in order to read (public) G+ posts, that was one the main benefits of G+
However execrable #discovfefe is, that's been the default unauthenticated homepage view of G+ for the past few years. At least it's reasonably anodyne content.
Way back when, G+ also threw up a registration wall.
Gary Gregory That's just your opinion. I think it is a decent replacement for G+. I think other alternatives like MeWe and Pluspora suck. Different people, different opinions. 🙂
Hayo Jongbloed of course it's my opinion. Did you think "Minds.com sucks" was a factual statement?
Opinion have weight that resonate with others. If someone resonates with "MeWe/Pluspora/Minds sucks", fine. Or maybe you think they are good. Cool. Say it, move on, don't look back.
But cut the "that's your opinion" crap. We know that. It's too tautological to be meaningful.
Anton A I think Minds sucks due to alt-right trash and crypto-currency crap. It's not what I'm looking for in a social network to replace G+. MeWe and pluspora suck for other reasons, like being bare bones and not enough members.
Gary Gregory You do have some good points. My objection against MeWe is that "public" posts are only visible inside the MeWe world, and the single stream look and feel. The block functions of MeWe are just as effective as those of G+, but if I could make a choice between the two I would take G+ any day.
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I thought Pinterest is just only pictures.
ReplyDeleteBloggers use Pinterest to drive traffic to their blog.
ReplyDeleteI never used Pinterest much, but as an art teacher my wife used to find it useful. Now, the proportion of advertisements as risen to the point where Pinterest is basically a collection of ads with an occasionally interesting piece of information hidden among them.
ReplyDeleteDiaspora or Friendica are better network
ReplyDeleteLOL when G+ when to this layout I complained it was trying to be Pinterest
ReplyDeleteI don't want to download an app.
ReplyDeleteMy personal objection against Pinterest is the big splash screen "make an account now" in your face. You don't need a G+ account in order to read (public) G+ posts, that was one the main benefits of G+
ReplyDeleteAnton A For a long time that wasn't the case.
ReplyDeleteHowever execrable #discovfefe is, that's been the default unauthenticated homepage view of G+ for the past few years. At least it's reasonably anodyne content.
Way back when, G+ also threw up a registration wall.
Edward Morbius Interesting, let's hope Pinterest will remove it like Google did.
ReplyDeleteKnowsMore It's also comments that people can write under the pictures, so the pictures could be interpreted as thread-starters.
ReplyDeleteI block both Facebook and pinterest in the browser with an extension
ReplyDelete❨❨❨David C. Frier❩❩❩ It's when they turn up in web search results that annoys me most.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I chose the browser extension
ReplyDeleteOk, Marysia Kurowski. I’ve seen comments on some pictures before.
ReplyDeleteminds.com - Minds has a blogging feature.
ReplyDeleteHayo Jongbloed Minds.com sucks.
ReplyDeleteGary Gregory Why?
ReplyDeleteGary Gregory That's just your opinion. I think it is a decent replacement for G+. I think other alternatives like MeWe and Pluspora suck. Different people, different opinions. 🙂
ReplyDeleteHayo Jongbloed of course it's my opinion. Did you think "Minds.com sucks" was a factual statement?
ReplyDeleteOpinion have weight that resonate with others. If someone resonates with "MeWe/Pluspora/Minds sucks", fine. Or maybe you think they are good. Cool. Say it, move on, don't look back.
But cut the "that's your opinion" crap. We know that. It's too tautological to be meaningful.
Anton A I think Minds sucks due to alt-right trash and crypto-currency crap. It's not what I'm looking for in a social network to replace G+. MeWe and pluspora suck for other reasons, like being bare bones and not enough members.
Only G+ is King.
Gary Gregory Opinions are what they are.
ReplyDeleteSubstantiated and substantive ones are appreciated here.
Gary Gregory You do have some good points. My objection against MeWe is that "public" posts are only visible inside the MeWe world, and the single stream look and feel. The block functions of MeWe are just as effective as those of G+, but if I could make a choice between the two I would take G+ any day.
ReplyDeleteAnton A I have the same objections.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Ok, still with the tautologies. No need to be cute, because sarcasm isn't respectful.
ReplyDelete#ConsiderationsAndFeatures
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