Folder: Massive-Scale Websites

Mastodon

What is Mastodon? Mastodon is kind-of a social media website similar to Twitter. More specifically, Mastodon is the name of a software used to create social media websites. One of these websites is ALSO called Mastodon (mastodon.social), which is rather confusing. Websites created with Mastodon all look the same, or at least most of them […]
Tumblr

What is Tumblr? Tumblr (www.tumblr.com) is a free social media website where a single user account may have several profiles called "blogs," where they can post text, images, videos, links, or quotes, and "reblog" blog posts from other users into their own blogs, optionally appending more content to the original post. Posts can be labelled […]
Pinterest

What is Pinterest? Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) is a free social media website where users can share images (mainly photos, but diagrams and illustrations as well), and short videos as posts called "pins." Users can "repin" pins of other users in their own profiles, and create boards to organize the pins and repins by category. It's also […]
TikTok

What is TikTok? TikTok (www.tiktok.com) is a free social media website where users can post short videos in vertical format, i.e. filmed by smartphones. More specifically, it's an app that has a website. You can follow users to receive their video posts in your feed, like posts, and post text comments on posts. Posts may […]
Twitter

Also called "X" (stylized "𝕏") by some, is a free social media website where you post small text messages, images, and videos in a feed, follow users to subscribe to their posts, and reply to users' posts (called "tweets"), and forward them to your own followers (called "retweets").
Instagram

A free social media website with a focus on photo-sharing and video-sharing.
Flickr

What is Flickr? Flickr (www.flickr.com) is an online photo-sharing website used by photographers all around the world. In it, you can upload up to 1000 photos for free, create albums, favorite posts by other users, create your user profile with your photo portfolio, and also search for photos uploaded by other users. References
Yandex

[Review] A free Russian web search engine that has its own index for searching the web, including images and videos.
Bing

What is Bing? Bing (www.bing.com) is a free search engine website for searching the web for websites, webpages, images, videos, and news, that is owned by Microsoft.
Spotify

What is Spotify? Spotify (open.spotify.com) is a website where you can listen to music online for free, although it requires creating an account to use. To create an account, it only needs your e-mail (or alternatively your phone number). Main Features Search feature: you can search for songs, genres, artists, albums, and playlists on Spotify […]
Facebook

What is Facebook? Facebook (www.facebook.com) is a social media website where you can connect to people you already know in real life, or meet new people you want to meet, network, or get informed about local businesses. Main Features Unlike many other websites on the web, Facebook has a strict anti-anonymous policy: all users are […]
Reddit

What is Reddit? Reddit (www.reddit.com) is a website where you can talk to other people on the Internet about various topics by joining or creating an online community forum (called a subreddit, or just a sub) centered on discussing a given topic, such as cooking, woodworking, programming, movies, gaming, photography, memes, and even about specific […]
Youtube

What is Youtube? Youtube (www.youtube.com) is a website where you can watch videos about all sorts of things, like short, few second funny videos, live streams, edited clips of live streams, hours long movies, documentaries, parodies, gameplay videos, video tutorials teaching you how to do tons of things, cartoon episodes, recipe videos, workout videos, boxing […]
Wikipedia

Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) is a free online encyclopedia website with articles covering millions of subjects, including topics like geography, history, culture, science, engineering, biology, politics, and pretty much everything else. For example, there's an article about Edward Einstein, about the atom, about medieval Europe, about felines, about the mitochondria, about One Piece, an article that is […]
Google

What is Google? The word Google can mean three things: How to Use Google Google has many features, both basic and advanced. See the guide How to Use Google for details. "Google" It: Google, The Verb Whenever someone says "google it," they're talking about using the search features of Google. This is one of the […]