Naho_Zako

Please tell me this guy is on drugs or else I'm going to hell for laughing

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.

Curious as to which country this is, because under US they only have individual, student, duo, and family. Methinks this screenshot is satire lol.

We barely turned our PS5 on until about a year and a half ago, it was the Switch that was getting all our love. Now we have a Switch 2 we barely touch and the PS5 gets attention cause games are on sale (nobody bought it lol)

I do PC game, but I prefer console because there's WAY less fiddling and tinkering due to hardware issues or shitty game ports. I was excited for the FFVII steam sale until I saw the reviews complaining about stuttering and performance issues. I prefer a painless, boot-it-up-and-play-immediately experience over modding capability.

Maybe I can beg artists from instagram and twitter to migrate/post to fediverse with this. Looks awesome, thanks!

I found my people. I always did well in English class, but I hated it, and liked math and science more for that exact reason. There is no intepretation or better answer, there is a exact method to get the right answer and you can easily check/prove why you're right. No tricks or suprises, what you see is what you get, purely facts.

Now, I can write essays just fine, and I even enjoy them if it's a topic I choose to write about. But those shitty standards of learning tests that we'd do in grade school fucking killed me. I was so suprised that I liked my college Lit course, we didn't do bullshit like that, it was all about group discussion and intepretation of what we read that day.

Teaching just to meet standards really needs HEAVY reform/revision.

I haven't played the tactics games yet (Ivalice right?) but you just broke my heart. I love tactics games man, and I feel like there's not a lot of them outside of the Fire Emblem series. I haven't gotten around to many to be fair though.

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.

Honestly, getting rid of any chat (voice/text) and DM features would would help. I don't think kids should completely lose online gaming, just make it almost impossible to communicate with anyone on said game. I played a shit ton of Mario Kart and Splatoon online as a kid, but neither of those games offer personal messages/chat features (unless you set them up via app), so I imagine grooming would be almost impossible.

I don't want to take Roblox away from kids, as I understand how fun it was growing up, especially if you can't afford a console/games at home. But chat has to be either heavily moderated, or just entirely removed imo.