Migrated from Lemmy to Piefed, just another stalker on the web.
The main issue the OP is saying is how tiny the text is, and that it’s hidden in the middle of a sea of text. You only take medicine when you’re feeling like shit, so having to squint and find information that is vital to your health is a tad annoying. RIP to anyone with dyslexia, poor eyesight, hangover/drunk, etc. trying to read these labels quickly or in pain.
It’s based off a joke about Tumblr banning porn and nudity. We Allow Female-presenting Nipples. It makes it memorable and instantly loveable to me, and I think most of the people who lived through the Tumblr porn exodus to Twitter would chuckle.
Would be nice if that community didn’t just post “Bezos bad” and actually gave tips on reducing Amazon use, but it’s a newer comm with little traction…
Edit: Some of y’all missed the point lol. I don’t use Amazon, but it makes it extremely hard to find shit that isn’t being sold in stores near me. How about promoting other websites/ways to get things, rather than preaching about Bezos being evil. I know he’s evil, it’s why I don’t use Amazon, but TEACH people where else they can go.
It’s the equivalent of going “Sex is bad kids” but then not actually teaching safe sex, condom use, STIs, etc.
Pinterest would do this shit even when it wasn’t my own posts lol. Like I never posted stuff to it, only saved others pins, but it would email me every time a one of “my pins” got removed, and rarely did they ever tell you why or what the pin was. I didn’t care much since I mostly saved memes and stolen/reposted fanart but the way they run that site is dumbfounding.
Dropped it a few years back anyway since it became infested with ads, promotions, and AI art 🤢
TL;DR: Misskey/Sharkey is our best bet, but network effect exists and I’m sad because I want more artists.
Honestly, I used Amino forever ago in middle school so I have no idea what it looked like before it died, but I feel like the closest Fediverse comparison of it’s functionality would be Misskey/Sharkey. It has a sleek UI that has a text and media focus (blog style), polls, offers chats (I think), reaction emotes, etc. You could totally make an instance around Anime/Games/Movies/whatever in general, or do focused communities on a specific media, like this Splatoon-themed Japanese Misskey server I used to visit, ikaskey.bktsk.com. I use Aria as a mobile app for Misskey/Sharkey and it’s not too bad, although the webUI for Misskey/Sharkey is truly beautiful and engaging. Threadiverse is too forum focused to truly count as a Amino replacement imo, but none of Fediverse truly fits with how Amino ran (for good reasons lol, we’re a federated social media, they weren’t).
The only issue with Fediverse anything is truly just the network effect. I have a Sharkey account at Sakurajima.social that I barely use because I just can’t find the people I want to follow. Same for my Pixelfed.art account and my Urusai.social (mastodon) account that I have following the mastodon.art instance. Federation kills a lot of interaction too, like not seeing another instance’s posts yet, or trying to like something and it failing to do so, or when you have to pull them up on their local instance. Misskey probably has most of the active artists, but you have to usually know Japanese (I am learning at least), use a VPN since foreginers are banned (and VPNs might not work), and then they defederate with most English instances anyway. Tbf Misskey did start as a Japanese made service, so that’s why it’s like that.
There are so many artists that I wish would at least move to Bluesky and use bridgy fed so I could see them, but most are sticking with Twitter and Instagram because they don’t want to have to move their followers. Fediverse doesn’t have the numbers, and we’re so tech/political focused that it’s hard to advertise ourselves. I check some of the anime communities here, but it’s mostly just posting news about upcoming anime, some borderline empty discussions (about anime I don’t watch unfortunately), and memes. I can’t even find communities focused on individual games and media I like, and of the ones that do exist, they have months between posting times.
Mini-rant about horny posting and art
I get that ppl are horni, and I did horni post on my old lemmy account, but LORD is it hard being a weeb/gamer who isn’t thirsty for women. I don’t hate all woman-focused smut (I am literally subbed to lascivious lesbians), but I guess I dislike smut intended for men. Wanna see cute art of the Pokemon cast? Nope! Here’s 50 posts in a row of only the females, in varying poses and positions that show off their chest, butt, feet, legs, etc while they blush. Wanna just see a pic of one male character smiling? Eh, if we check the dusty-ass archives we might find one. Want a NSFW pic of a male character? Sorry buddy! This is partially what pushed me from even bothering to join Misskey, there’s a shitton of HIGHLY questionable art on there that would be a pain to try to filter.
I miss my silly queer focused game/anime subreddits that I could retreat to when the main subs were being unfriendly or simply not posting what I wanted, but they literally don’t exist here. I guess i could make the sub myself, but I know shit all about moderating, nor am I sure I want to handle all that…