Introducing Minds.com

I'm sick of social media and certainly don't feel encouraged to sign up to anything new. The only good thing Social Media has come out with IMO is Frankie Boyle's Twitter account. ;)

I hate that I'm on LinkedIn but it might actually come in useful in the near future.

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Judgeneo said:
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.
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Sorry for the stupid question but when you say free from censorship you don't mean it's an open platform for peodophiles?
 
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TacticalFish said:
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.
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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
 
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 :confused:.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
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 :confused:.
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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.
 
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.
 
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...
 
Avenged7Fold said:
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.
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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.

sports_brah said:
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...
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Check it out!

dowie said:
you're using a social media site right now :)
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Indeed.

Found this article today about it

http://observer.com/2017/05/minds-open-sourced-social-media-facebook-competitor/
 
Avenged7Fold said:
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.
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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.
 
Rroff said:
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.
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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
 
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