Amino was where a lot of us learned that fandom could be a home rather than a comment section. Separate communities for every interest, profiles that felt like yours, roleplay threads that ran for months.
That has changed, and the communities that lived there have scattered. If you have been looking for somewhere to land, this is an honest account of the options — what each is genuinely good at, and where each one falls short.
What people actually miss about Amino
Worth naming, because it explains why no single replacement has worked:
- A profile that felt like a character, not a résumé
- Rooms where the same people showed up every day
- Roleplay that had somewhere to live — threads, not disappearing stories
- Being findable by people who liked exactly the thing you liked
- Making something and having it seen, rather than shouting into an algorithm
Most replacements give you two or three. Very few give you all five.
1. Demi Gods Universe
Ours, so read it with that in mind — but it is first on this list because it is the one built specifically to do what Amino did, rather than a general platform fandom moved into.
Demi Gods Universe — DGU — is a social community app for fandom. It is new and growing quickly, and the people arriving are the ones who have been looking for somewhere since Amino emptied out.
Who it is for
- Anime and manga fans
- Marvel and DC fans, and comic readers generally
- Cosplayers and cosplay creators
- Roleplay and storytelling communities
- K-pop and K-drama fans
- Original character creators, artists and writers
- Entertainment and pop culture fandoms of every kind
What makes it different
- Joining takes a minute. Email, a name, a picture, pick a side. No invite link, no server to be let into, no waiting for a moderator
- Your profile is a character, not a résumé — a name nobody else on the network can take, an origin, powers, and the weaknesses that balance them
- You are findable. Leaderboards and search mean people discover you by what you made, not by whether an algorithm felt generous
- Standing is earned. Power classes rise through what you create. It cannot be bought at any price, and followers do not generate it
- Alliances — real groups with their own name, picture and private hall, where nobody joins without a member letting them in
- Come as a fan. You do not have to invent a superhero to belong here. Follow creators, post what you love, take part. The rest is there when you want it
Where it is still growing
We launched recently. Instagram's audience is larger by orders of magnitude, and if raw reach today is the only thing that matters, go there and come back later. What DGU has instead is a community where the same people see your work and know your character's name.
Free on iPhone, no adverts. Download it here.
2. Discord
Where most communities went first, and for good reason. Voice, text, organised channels, free.
Good at: live conversation, close groups, events — anything where being in the same room at the same time matters.
Less good at: being found. Discord is invisible to search. You cannot wander in and discover a server the way you discovered an Amino community; someone has to hand you an invite. Posts also scroll away forever, which hurts if you make things rather than chat.
3. Reddit
Enormous, searchable, a subreddit for almost everything.
Good at: reach, archives, large general fandoms, honest critique.
Less good at: identity. You are a username and a karma score. A profile is not a place, and most subreddits are cold towards original characters that are not already popular.
4. Instagram and TikTok
Where most cosplayers ended up, because that is where the audience is.
Good at: reach, and cosplay specifically. A good build can travel a long way.
Less good at: belonging. You compete with the entire internet for attention, the algorithm decides whether months of work gets seen, and nobody there knows your character's name.
5. Tumblr
Still home to a great deal of fandom writing and art.
Good at: long posts, art, the particular culture that never left.
Less good at: discovery and structure. Tags are the only organisation.
6. Toyhouse and World Anvil
Both built for character and worldbuilding people, and excellent at it.
Good at: storing a character properly — profiles, relationships, lore, galleries.
Less good at: being somewhere you go every day. They are closer to a library than a community. Most people keep one *and* somewhere social.
So which one
If you want voice chat every night, use Discord. If you want maximum reach for cosplay, Instagram and TikTok have the audience. If you want a permanent archive for a character's lore, Toyhouse is excellent.
If what you miss is being somebody in a world — where you are easy to find, the community is real, and what you make decides your standing — that is the gap DGU was built for.
Most people end up using two. That is fine. The thing worth avoiding is the lesson Amino taught everybody: keeping everything you have made in one place you do not control.
Demi Gods Universe is free on iPhone, with no adverts. Anime, manga, Marvel, DC, cosplay, roleplay, K-pop, K-drama — whatever you love, there are people here who love it too. Download it here.