Today I'm going to talk about the hottest community social network among Otakus called Amino. It's a social network and app that is quite popular among teenagers, which grew thanks to the marketing of youtubers.
In this article I will explain why I hate this social network and how it has enslaved its users and harmed websites and content creators all over the internet. The article serves as an appeal to save Suki Desu from plagiarism committed on this social network.
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Why I don't like Amino?
Maybe it's because I'm already in my 26 years, where I've even lost interest in Facebook and Instagram. Especially after watching that documentary about social media on Netflix, I felt more discouraged by the way they influence us.
The addiction to social networks is so great that I even blocked Disqus on my computer to avoid wasting time arguing with Haters on gaming and technology blogs. Imagine my procrastination if I used amino?
I also found the social network a little confusing, it's very easy to get lost, but I believe that's the purpose of it. Amino also offers a bonus system, coins, to trap users in the social network and force them to do tasks for free.
I have already tried using Amino, but I got confused at the time because the company offered so many different apps, one for each thing. This annoyed me and discouraged me from using the social network. Despite this, that's not the reason I don't like Amino.
Amino users harm websites
The main reason for my anger towards Amino is its users who strongly harm the growth of Suki Desu, due to content copying and article publishing. I am not the only one affected; I have written about Amino on my blog kevinbk.com.
Amino is an app/site where people write articles, often copied from other sites, and because of the domain authority, amino ends up hurting most of these other sites by ranking first on Google.
I can imagine, I'm a content creator, I research for hours to write an article, then some otaku from Amino copies my article, posts it on Amino, and when people search for the subject on Google, the article on Amino shows up before mine. Can you imagine the unfairness?
This is the main reason I strongly detest amino! People who don’t earn a penny keep copying my content and duplicating it on amino without even giving credits. Just to give you an idea, the amino doesn’t even provide Do-Follow links.
Copied content stealing my positions
The amino is the main threat to the ranking of Suki Desu. I have always focused on writing huge articles of 2,000 words, but then comes the amino and copies everything and steals my position. All because of those teenagers otaku fedidos.
Because of Amino's ranking and recent Google updates, my visits dropped from 10,000 to 7,000 daily. Guess who steals my positions? My own duplicate articles on amino. What makes me sadder is knowing that these teenagers don't earn anything for copying this article, it just hurts my website.
Some give credits, but credits are useless. Especially because the links from Amino are No-Follow, which means that no authority from Amino is passed to the SEO of the domain skdesu.com. (I'm talking in technical terms).
Amino is Slave Labor
Of course, Amino isn't the only one who takes advantage of people's lack, but personally he's the one I see most taking advantage of the time of teenage otakus. I like to say that Amino does slave labor with people.
Because of its gamification system (moedas e rakings), users are drawn to write articles and create communities, spending hours putting images and writing texts for these articles, all for coins and popularity in the community.
The person feels satisfied, happy, joyful to have a large community full of content on Amino. What she doesn't know is that thanks to these articles, Amino manages to generate more than 40 million visits per month, in addition to millions of dollars with ads.
Amino earns from its generated content, while also hurting the profits of other sites by allowing duplicate content on its system. Instead of writing on Amino, why not create a blog and generate your own income? I know Amino's range is greater, but stop being enslaved.
If I create my website, no one reads my articles
In 2008, blogging was popular among teenagers, but nowadays thanks to these large, authoritative social networks, any small and recently created blog is thrown into limbo, without visibility, so many dismiss the idea of having a blog.
Of course, if you apply SEO techniques and study the strategies proposed on my marketing blog kevinbk.com, you will be able to quickly create a successful blog and even make money from it, without letting companies like Amino exploit your work.
I think it's more beneficial for you to write for Suki Desu, your visibility will be greater, and you will be helping someone small and not a billion-dollar company like Amino. Sometimes I even pay writers when I have the means... Something that Amino took away from me.
Have you noticed that websites, especially social networks, are the only ones that call their members usuário? Like drug user?
Amino is a good social network
It's not just because I hate the way social media and its users harm me that I'm going to say only bad things about it. I remember that a few years ago I always dreamed of a otaku social network, I even saw some initiatives, but none successful.
Amino has thousands of communities of specific interests, millions of users who share the same tastes as you. A community chat to interact in real time with other users, thousands of GIFs, images and interesting content.
The most unpleasant thing is the fact that they copy articles from my site and others, severely harming the growth of Suki Desu. Other than that, I have nothing to say about the social network, I just wish they wouldn't rank their articles on Google, but I doubt they will do that, because human greed is great.
It's like the saying goes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
What can you do to help?
I'm not here appealing to anyone to stop using Amino, I'm just warning you that copying Suki Desu content to your community on Amino only harms the site. So I hope you understand Suki Desu's position regarding content copied on Amino.
If you use this social network and come across an article copied from Suki Desu, I would be grateful if you asked the author to remove the content, I did it a few times and it worked. If you are the administrator or author of these articles, I would be grateful if you remove yourself.
I don't know how communities work, I spent little time on the social network, but I believe that as a community administrator, you should be responsible for managing the content that appears on it. Thus avoiding Plagiarism, which is a crime!
Also, the tip is to stop wasting your precious time working for free for a millionaire company. I hope in the near future to have a system that catches you as much as the social network Amino does. Without obliging you to write for free for coins...
Of course, Amino is not the only threat, I know of other sites that only translate short articles and still get ahead of me on Google, all because of its great reach on Facebook. I think Google is giving the wrong priorities.
Pinterest is another popular site that tends to position itself before articles, but I don't complain about it because it just shares an image that points to the article directly on the site.
What have I been doing to get around Amino copies?
The company responds well to my complaints, I managed to delete several articles copied from the social network. Users and even authors are also helpful and delete the article, apologizing. I am very grateful to these people.
Also, I have contacted Google and reported these articles, some have already been removed from searches. The problem is that there are thousands of communities about Anime, Otaku and Japan on Amino, so many versions of the same article are copied.
Here's a tip if Amino is reading this article, that it add an option to report article (it may even have it, but I didn't find it). I've seen admins doing a good job opening a whistleblower section within the community.
I have some concerns that this article may have a rebound effect, but I have measures in place to avoid these situations. I believe we can easily get rid of the copied articles. We recommend reading my article about Plagiarism on Kevinbk.com discussing why it's so dangerous.