Introducing Minds.com

Judgeneo · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:17

https://www.minds.com/

Minds.com is a new social network that is fully opensource, free, free from censorship, and operates in a similar fashion to twitter, youtube and facebook.

You create "channels" and subscribe to other ones, and join interest groups. Your activity generates points, for each post, media upload, comment on your activity, upvote or subscription, as well as for checking in every hour. You can then use those points to "boost" your content. 1 point = 1 view. This is a really neat way to expand your network.

I've been on this for a few weeks now and highly recommend it for anyone that is remotely interested in social media, or is fed up on the content filtering and censorship on twitter/facebook.

Check it out!

G-MAN2004 · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:19

Things that will not take off: this

Judgeneo · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:20

G-MAN2004 said:
Things that will not take off: this

Just general cynicism, or not a fan of the network?

G-MAN2004 · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:23

Judgeneo said:
Just general cynicism, or not a fan of the network?

Just going by what happens to pretty much any new social network. There was a new one being talked about and hyped up a few weeks back (Mastodon), but unsurprisingly that has all but fizzled out. People don't like change, and Facebook/Twitter are too big to compete with. Just look at Google...

ChrisD. · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:24

There's far too many social networks for this to take off. Look at Google's attempt.

Judgeneo · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:29

Just had a look at Mastodon, it was billing itself as twitter without the trolls? That was bound to fail.

I'm not saying that this is going to replace everything, and become the number one place to be, but growth has been steady for many months now, and you can gain a following much much easier than other networks.

For reference, I have only a handful of followers on twitter, but well over a hundred on minds, despite being on minds for less time.

MikeTheNative · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:30

Just sounds like reddit.

MikeTheNative · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:31

Judgeneo said:
For reference, I have only a handful of followers on twitter, but well over a hundred on minds, despite being on minds for less time.

New social media sites tend to bot or pay people to create multiple accounts to create the illusion of a bigger user base.

deuse · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:31

"free from censorship" wait till the SJWs and ********** start.

Glanza · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:32

New social networks are like MMO's promise to be the next big thing but never take off.

antijoke · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:33

Free from censorship?

What could possibly go wrong...

Judgeneo · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:33

MikeTheNative said:
New social media sites tend to bot or pay people to create multiple accounts to create the illusion of a bigger user base.

Nah, I get genuine interactions all the time.

deuse said:
"free from censorship" wait till the SJWs and ********** start.

Plenty of anti-SJW people on the network.

MikeTheNative · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:36

Judgeneo said:
Plenty of anti-SJW people on the network.

Didn't you say that you join and create interest channels? Could they be on there but just not the part your looking at?

Judgeneo · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:39

MikeTheNative said:
Didn't you say that you join and create interest channels? Could they be on there but just not the part your looking at?

The boost feature means that you get content from people you're not subscribed to on your newsfeed every 5-7 posts. I see videos, blogs, art, news and music as boosted posts, but nothing really that I would class as "SJW" so far.

The platform has a full commitment to free speech, the creator is on record as saying if countries want to censor the content on the network like Germany wants to do with Facebook and Twitter currently, then they would just have to pull out of the country.

Rroff · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:40

Oh I remember google plus or whatever it was - 2-3 people on my facebook friends list were all like "this is the next big thing!!!!! - I'm closing my FB account" - couple of months later they were back with their tails between their legs

Boat has sailed no matter how good you make your offering the only thing anyone is interested in is FB and twitter.

StriderX · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:44

When Nazibook stops existing is when space for a social network can begin.

Judgeneo · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:48

Rroff said:
Oh I remember google plus or whatever it was - 2-3 people on my facebook friends list were all like "this is the next big thing!!!!! - I'm closing my FB account" - couple of months later they were back with their tails between their legs

Boat has sailed no matter how good you make your offering the only thing anyone is interested in is FB and twitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...venues-fall-first-quarter-results-advertising

Twitter doesn't have a rosy future, and the recent splurge of censorship there has frustrated a huge number of users. Hashtags are prevented from trending about certain topics, and many tweets don't appear at all unless you click on the user, the reply chains for many tweets are re-ordered for political influence.

StriderX · 27 Apr 2017 at 16:54

I mean Reddit is more used than bloody twitter, it really depends on what it's doing, at least reddit can be a sorta good place for information. Twitter is just ugh.

Rroff · 27 Apr 2017 at 17:01

Judgeneo said:
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...venues-fall-first-quarter-results-advertising

Twitter doesn't have a rosy future, and the recent splurge of censorship there has frustrated a huge number of users. Hashtags are prevented from trending about certain topics, and many tweets don't appear at all unless you click on the user, the reply chains for many tweets are re-ordered for political influence.

All that shows is stagnation as the novelty wears off/people realise not that many people are really interested in their mundane tweets, etc. not a desire to move to another platform. Sure the censorship stuff has a lot of users riled up, same as recent stuff with youtube and restricted content - but those people aren't actually the body of mainstream users (the sheep) which will still blindly continue to use the site(s).

AndyT · 27 Apr 2017 at 17:07

Oh, how wonderful. Exactly what we need. A new "echo chamber generator" to further polarise society.