• Bouzou@lemmy.world
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      Well…yes, it is a link aggregator, but have you ever used Pinterest? The uses for it vs reddit are wildly different…

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        Yes, I have. And the differences that you allude to are a huge part why women find it attractive, more so than men.

        Pinterest itself have publicly stated this was not necessarily intentional and they wanted to bring more men to the platform.

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          I am more trying to argue that Pinterest and Reddit/lemmy are fundamentally different enough that they aren’t really interchangeable.

          I personally use both, but, again, for wildly different purposes.

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            I agree, but at a higher level the analogy works… like a sports car vs a pickup truck vs a minivan. Very different but at the end of the day they are all vehicles and men tend to like one of those more than others, same as women (and no, I am not implying women like minivans… my wife forbade me from getting one when our kids were little and I had given up on a cool car for the convenience of one)

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      Your comment can be read in multiple ways

      “It’s called pinterest. Go there instead. This site is not for you.”

      or

      “It’s called pinterest. This thing you are interested in already kind of exists. Just thought I would let you know.”

      The people downvoting had the first interpretation, I assume.

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        Honestly, I really cannot stop people from making up things I did not write and tagging them along in their heads.

        I was answering the question in the picture of this post:

        Do you know any Reddit alternatives aimed towards Women?

        The way I worded it “it’s called Pinterest” came from me thinking this was a well known thing which apparently is not for many lemmy users.

        Check this article which is 10 years old, where Pinterest representatives acknowledge this demographic divide and want to correct it

        https://www.thestreet.com/technology/why-pinterest-wants-more-men-and-how-it-plans-to-get-them-13101082