Pinkary started out as a link sharing platform like linktr.ee. But then questions got added and then a news feed was added to show all the questions. And then the news feed was made the homepage and now we are here.

To answer the other question, yes Pinkary has become another social network. But looking at what is happening at X (Twitter) I don't think that is a bad idea. And also the community (which exists mostly of Laravel Devs) here is incredible friendly.