Introducing Minds.com

[Judgeneo]

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!

 

[Judgeneo]

Things that will not take off: this

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

 

[Judgeneo]

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.

 

[Judgeneo]

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.

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

Plenty of anti-SJW people on the network.

 

[Judgeneo]

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.

 

[Judgeneo]

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.

 

[Judgeneo]

I havn't even signed up yet and the UI has annoyed me.
The "terms and conditions" link from the signup box on the homepage is a link but doesnt have a pointer cursor on it.
Then the same text on the login page isnt even a link.

Hmmn, can't say I noticed that. Its still technically in Beta, post those problems in the bugs group

 

[Judgeneo]

Why should I buy points? This isn't the first thing I want to see when I log in.

The first thing? You don't have to buy anything.

 

[Judgeneo]

As soon as I registered/logged in, I saw the option to buy points - as above.

Do you have a professional role or interest in the site?

Ahh yes on the sidebar, I thought you meant a popup or re-direct.

Nope, I don't have any role or official interest in the site, I just like it and want to see it grow.

 

[Judgeneo]

Spoiler

it will probably won't take off

RIP

I encourage you all to check it out, its a great network with the people on it already, has been growing consistently, and shows considerable promise.

 

[Judgeneo]

Or "terrorist sympathizers" *

The whole points system seems to be designed to make people spam out as much crap as possible?

As for too big to compete, consider MySpace. Any company that wants to take out Facebook needs to target a market, and subsequently make it "cool" to join. Facebook targeted students who joined when they were young and are still using it. The new social network needs to target young people of a certain type and then expand from there as they grow up. That's essentially what instagram have done.

*Or murder videos, child abuse images, drug dealing and weapons sales to name a few. Heck, even 4chan is censored and I don't think anyone would call that a home of SJWs...

Well, limits exist, you can report things for being sensitive or abusive, and you can flag images as adult so you have to click to see them, the rules are very lax on purpose though.

 

[Judgeneo]

Looks crap.

Ahh well, thought some here might like it at least!

 

[Judgeneo]

I just can't take anyone seriously when they stick macs in the background. I'm out.

Haha, thats legacy from when the guy used to be primarily a tech review channel, hes not an Apple fanboy.

 

[Judgeneo]

I think this actually looks interesting, a bit different from the norm. It kinda looks like a bit of a mix between Tumblr and Pinterest.

Finally, an open mind! I've never used this two sites so can't comment much, but I can see why you would make the comparison. I think of it as a Facebook/Twitter/reddit hybrid

 

[Judgeneo]

It could be the most well designed and innovative social media site in the world but if only 1% of epople are willing to give it a second look, it wont go anywhere and will just fizzle out as the vast majority of your 'social network' is not on it.

I cant but help feel that this sort of stuff has sort of missed its time to shine and cannot compete with already established networks and so is rendered more or less useless without additional functionality.

I cant see anything different that this site does and why anyone would want to push this site unless they have something to gain financially from it .

Perhaps, but I enjoy it still and get better reach than Twitter. My only interest is in promoting platforms free from political censorship, and that if the network grows then my reach will grow along with it.

 

[Judgeneo]

Do you have any business interest in this, OP?

No, not at all.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minds

 

[Judgeneo]

I cant help but think you have some business interest. I could understand if the site did something different or had a decent following but it doesn't. The site's reward system seems weird, you get points to promote posts but participating but you can buy points with real money?

It is like a pay for attention shop.

Yes it is pay for attention essentially, the idea is to encourage native advertising and then get people or companies to boost to increase their audience. Add I mentioned ice found it much easier than Twitter etc to gain an audience there.

And no for the last time I don't have a business interest. They've recently opened it up to some crowd funding, I did not contribute.

Hahaha at people here questioning Judgeneo for looking at something different. Shock horror that someone would like a bit of change...

Personally I would like to see a better social media. I find it worrying just how modualised the internet is becoming almost like a smart TV...

Check it out!

you're using a social media site right now

Indeed.

Found this article today about it

http://observer.com/2017/05/minds-open-sourced-social-media-facebook-competitor/

 

[Judgeneo]

I saw similar kind of evangelising from a small number of people for platforms like google plus without any connection to it themselves business or development wise. They always end up coming back to facebook though heh. Unless one of the established platforms seriously screws up or you come out with something really extraordinarily beyond what those platforms are offering (and this really doesn't) the simple truth is these sites are going to go the way of the likes of tickle and bebo, etc.

Possibly, but I'm rather enjoying it so far.

They've just launched an affiliate scheme, if you fancy signing up, consider using my link: https://www.minds.com/register;referrer=Maven_Politic