“All things must pass… except perhaps Reddit.” @[email protected] https://vis.social/users/infobeautiful/statuses/113986535718924599
Just zoom out.
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%2CTiktok&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.
Where is Vine?
“Vine app” is right there
It’s easy to miss because its hype was only 10 seconds long.
Third column second row
Where is 4chan?
The infamous hacker? You’ll never find him.
Who tf is googling linkedin or pinterest
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.
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
The most recent reddit spike is definitely just people adding the word to google searches to make the search actually useful instead of SEO slop
Makes me wonder if the pinterest numbers are from queries with “-pinterest”.
Pintrest annoys me, it will have an image im trying to find the source of, and when i try to view the page its on the post just doesn’t fucking exist??
Probably yeah
That stopped working like a year ago.
sorta interesting though this is just Google searches, and it’s funny to have YouTube as a social media but not Tumblr
It does have Tumblr though. Would be interesting to see them overlaid too. Many of them would be probably be tiny blips
yeah I found it lol, my bad
You can see when they banned porn on Tumblr.
In case of things like YouTube I assume that everyone just knows it and directly types youtube.com or opens the app instead of googling for it.
Or maybe I’m wrong and nobody types urls directly into the browser anymore?Honestly most of the time I’ve watched over someone’s shoulder while they go to a website, I’ve watched them google the site (sometimes including .com) and then click on the top result. URLs are just asking too much of people ig
Lemmy: ___________^------
What happened in 2015? Why are there so many Finns?
Damn. So the real Lemmy generates essentially zero search traffic. Sad!
Especially when it should be considered that Finland might not exist.
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.
Are you telling me that I live in a world where LINKEDIN AND PINTEREST are the most successful SOCIAL MEDIA sites?
Edit, missed the “relative” part, so most consistent sites? Still weird.
Pinterest is somehow getting traction with the kids, I have no idea how or why but they’re all on it. I honestly thought it died along with the likes of Flickr.
Linkedin serves a professional purpose so I can see why it’d be the most consistently searched. Like even if people don’t actively use it, at least part its purpose is for hiring managers to be able to search a person and have their professional persona pop up. It’s the most accessible way to find a version of a person online that’s not restricted or under a pseudonym.
That being said, people that actively use it for anything other than keeping their resume up to date or job search/hiring are usually nutjobs.
