in defence of Pinterest, it’s like any other social media with an algorithm. Once you get it used to what you’re interested in it’s a far better experience than signed out normal recommendations. You just have to put in the time.

this is my homepage:

no ai, no ads. Compare it to how horrible the YouTube homepage is.

here’s one of my boards:

essentially everything I post on Lemmy (over 200 posts combined with my .world account) is from Pinterest or Instagram
here’s two examples from today alone: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52987863
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52988495

they added liking to images (not just videos anymore!) and cool image collages