I’m trying to move a lot of my social media habits to the Fediverse in light of digital ID/mass surveillance bills being pushed in Canada, and I remember hearing about Pinetta, a federated Pinterest alternative awhile back. Does anyone know what’s happened to it? It doesn’t look to have had any updates in a few years. I’m wondering if it’s been abandoned?
Does anyone know of any other federated Pinterest alternatives? Pinterest has been how a lot of small businesses survive over the years. It’d be wonderful if there was a federated alternative to it.
Misskey/Sharkey seems like the best Fediverse Pinterest alternative that’s active that I’m aware of.
Otherwise Pixelfed will sorta work, but it’s meant mainly as an IG alternative.
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).
Haha it definitely isn’t my favorite platform in the world but for business owners, it’s generally looked at more as a visual search engine rather than a social media platform. When people go to Pinterest, they often do it with the intention of either wanting to learn something or wanting to buy something. A lot of people use Pinterest to get inspiration for things, which from a business standpoint, is the perfect opportunity to promote products they’re searching for.
I design and sell digital products. Planners, journals, things of that nature. 😊 I also make a lot of handmade things.
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.
·pond is under development: you can follow its development on Mastodon or something: @pppond@mastodon.social, and join its Matrix chat at #pppapp:matrix.org
Fun fact: its creator made Prismo, which was a federated link aggregator even before Lemmy. Unfortunately, Prismo content never made it to Lemmy as former ceased to exist and latter federated only later.
Thanks for letting me know about this! I’ll definitely keep an eye on this project. I’d love to see more federated alternatives pop up for small businesses. A federated marketplace of sorts would be awesome too. If you catch wind of any federated marketplace projects popping up, feel free to send it my way.
A federated marketplace of sorts would be awesome too.
Here you go:
It does exist! Thank you so much! 😄
+1 for Codeberg!
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Since the repo lists its 2023 plans as “…”
I’d say it’s probably dead.
Pixelfed?
Pixelfed might work since it’s more image sharing. It’s definitely the most developed, though, I feel like it’s more of an Instagram alternative than a Pinterest alternative.
