I don't have an account on any of those platforms. Also, obviously, never use them.
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How the hell is Quora more popular than youtube ... huh ? Who in their right mind still uses Pinterest and Quora???
Probably, AI Agents.
My Mom won't get off Pinterest. But, Quora... I haven't heard of that shit since 2010.
Quora is (supposedly) where everyone went after Yahoo Answers closed 5 years ago. Prior to that, it had been (arguably) the better of the two sites with significantly better questions and answers.
I had an account on YA because I didn't feel clever enough to have an account there. Maybe I should create one now, ha.
That monthly active users chart can't be right, it shows YouTube as having ~500 million monthly active users while in reality that's ~2.6 billion
What is a "quora"? Never seen before. And 1,5 billion users on reddit? Seriously?
Since YouTube is this low I bet this aren't real humans. Bots, crawlers, AI...
It's a site where you ask questions and people (hopefully experts) answer. That was the main idea behind it. But it was filled with garbage, unhelpful answers and it just went downhill.
Also yeah the fact that Reddit is more popular than Youtube is really weird to me and I don't quite believe it.
Quora was always that site where you'd search for something on Google, see it show up near the top of the results and you'd just instantly skip over it because you already knew whatever it said was a waste of time unless you were looking for a laugh. Half the time the answers would literally be people messing with the person asking the question, and the other half of the time the person asking the question would be the one joking around.
Oh this explains a lot, I was just one time on this platform, it was full of garbage and I blocked it on DNS. Maybe that's why I don't know them. Forgot it was called "quora".
This is actually a really interesting article.
It looks at how social media has evolved, who owns it, and whether it is fundamentally still "social."