Aminoka builds an Amino alternative. We have a commercial interest in you leaving Amino, and we recommend our own product on most pages of this blog. We disclose that on every article, we date every status claim, and we recommend Discord, Reddit and Tumblr by name where they fit a community better than we do.
What we verify, and how
Every claim on this blog about Amino's operational status comes from something we can re-check on demand: whether the iOS and Google Play listings resolve, whether aminoapps.com returns a live application or a static page, whether the API endpoints the app depended on still answer, and what the platform's own owners have published. We re-run those checks when we update an article, and the date shown under “Last verified” is the date we last ran them, not the date we last touched a sentence.
What we don't do
We don't publish rumours about acquisitions or revivals without a named source. We don't invent shutdown dates to look precise, where the exact date is not public, we say the month or the year and say that it is approximate. We don't quote user counts we cannot attribute. And we don't publish a page whose only purpose is to match a search phrase; if we don't have something specific to say about a topic, the topic doesn't get a page.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and move the “Last verified” date. Substantive corrections, a wrong date, a wrong status, a wrong claim about a competitor, are made in place rather than quietly deleted.
Our relationship to Amino
None. Aminoka is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Amino Apps or MediaLab, Inc. We were Amino users, we built something else, and we write about what happened because that is what people ask us. “Amino” is a trademark of its owner and appears here descriptively.