“All things must pass… except perhaps Reddit.” @infobeautiful@vis.social https://vis.social/users/infobeautiful/statuses/113986535718924599
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Who tf is googling linkedin or pinterest
You can see when Reddit became mostly bots!
Where is Vine?
“Vine app” is right there
Third column second row
It’s easy to miss because its hype was only 10 seconds long.
damn, google+ wasn’t even mentioned
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.
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 “facebook” 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.
Where is 4chan?
The infamous hacker? You’ll never find him.
I walked into that one
You can see when they banned porn on Tumblr.
Lemmy: ___________^------
What happened in 2015? Why are there so many Finns?
Especially when it should be considered that Finland might not exist.
Damn. So the real Lemmy generates essentially zero search traffic. Sad!
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.
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,Tiktok&hl=en
You can see that 100% of one app in this post doesn’t equal 100% of another app.
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.
In my mind I excused it ask having low but constant volume of users.
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?”
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?
Depending on how these are calculated, I do use
$searchterm -inurl:pinteresta lot, when using google
Lemmy?
Lol
It’s right there alongside diaspora
Reddit is on the decline. We need more people to join the Fediverse.
Nah, fuck Reddit.
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
