Here's a review...Minds.com: The social network that pays you to be social using cryptocurrency, oh, and it's open...
Here's a review...Minds.com: The social network that pays you to be social using cryptocurrency, oh, and it's open source.
Published on October 13, 2018
Jason Mayes
Having used the site for a week, this blog post summarizes my thoughts so far for Minds.com, an open sourced, and crypto backed social network that pays you to be social. Wonderful. Lets go!
I don't often post about social networks, actually if you look back through my posts, I have never gone out of my way to recommend one in a dedicated post - until now. Needless to say - I'm excited about this one.
In the light of Google+ shutting down, I have taken to search the seas to see what exists that may be a good alternative investment of my time to fill that void in my life once it goes (I spent a lot of time and effort growing my network on that site). This is a little long but I wanted to leave a thorough review to give people options to consider.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindscom-social-network-pays-you-using-cryptocurrency-jason-mayes/
#GooglePlus #GooglePlusMigration #MindsReview
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindscom-social-network-pays-you-using-cryptocurrency-jason-mayes/
Published on October 13, 2018
Jason Mayes
Having used the site for a week, this blog post summarizes my thoughts so far for Minds.com, an open sourced, and crypto backed social network that pays you to be social. Wonderful. Lets go!
I don't often post about social networks, actually if you look back through my posts, I have never gone out of my way to recommend one in a dedicated post - until now. Needless to say - I'm excited about this one.
In the light of Google+ shutting down, I have taken to search the seas to see what exists that may be a good alternative investment of my time to fill that void in my life once it goes (I spent a lot of time and effort growing my network on that site). This is a little long but I wanted to leave a thorough review to give people options to consider.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindscom-social-network-pays-you-using-cryptocurrency-jason-mayes/
#GooglePlus #GooglePlusMigration #MindsReview
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindscom-social-network-pays-you-using-cryptocurrency-jason-mayes/
Show me the money 🤔
ReplyDeleteAnd if you don't want to be bothered with crypto-whatever, you can use Minds without that token stuff. I also tried it and my first impressions were positive.
ReplyDeletejust out of curiosity, do you ever think they'll add the ability to transfer all of your google plus profile to the site?
ReplyDeletei've been on here since 2012 and i would hate to see all my posts vanish into thin air. if they add that option i'm for sure testing the waters of this site. i like the look of it, and the crypto currency intrigues me.
GENGHIS KHAN JR. III Only on Steemit you can turn the earned coin to $ / € — but steemit has it's own problems. The most important one: New accounts won't earn all that many coins.
ReplyDeleteI just wonder how sustainable handing out money is going to be. How do they make their money?
ReplyDeleteHow doed the privacy/visibility control work on Minds? Is it more like Google+, FB, or Twitter?
ReplyDeleteMy biggest gripe with Mind is that I can't stop boosted posts (paid for posts) to show up in my stream unless I have a paid account. He did not mention that at all.
ReplyDeleteMarcus Burggraf Don't use the Minds newsfeed. It doesn't work the same way as Google+.
ReplyDeleteI started by clicking on Avatars of content I liked, then looking at their subscribers and checking out their content.
I used hashtags to find content. When you find content you like, click on the poster's avatar and it will take you to their channel. Subscribe to the channel and it will show up in your newsfeed.
Another way to find content is to click on your subscribers. That will take you to a listing of channels that you subscribe to or that subscribe to you and check out their newest content. Go to my channel and click on my subscribers (it's in the upper left with the word Subscribers and a number below it) . You'll go to a page with my subscribers. Feel free to click on their avatars and look at their content. You might find something you like. Subscribe to channels you like. minds.com - CultureKat | Minds
The more you post on Minds, the more you will be exposed too because people will subscribe to your channel.
Also, don't forget to use the Videos, Images, Blogs and Groups tabs at the top of your channel to explore more content.
Nishit Dave Minds does not ask for your real name to create an account.
ReplyDeleteIt just asks for an email address and a phone number to set up the Minds crypto wallet. When I set up my account Minds asked for first and last names. I made my first name Culture and my second name Kat. Minds has no other personal information.
From the link below: Minds.com doesn’t track you and even pays you in return for participating and making the website more lively. The site was created in many ways as a response to the recent bouts of censorship and data mining that other social media websites have been engaged in for years now. Sites like Facebook and Twitter track everything we do, and then sell all of our information to advertisers.
Minds.com was created with the intent that no legally protected speech would be censored or subverted. The site itself has no specific political bias and opinions from all sides of the spectrum are welcomed and encouraged. Additionally, Minds.com does not engage in active user tracking or in selling personal data to advertisers. More so, Minds.com is largely immune to the types of major data breaches seen by Facebook with the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Minds.com is very easy to use and get started on. It also offers a full mobile experience on both Android and iOS. To begin, all you’ll need to do is create an account on the sign-up page and provide a phone number. According to the site, phone numbers are never kept or shared, and are instead only used as a means of preventing spam bot sign-ups. Only a hash of phone numbers are kept.
Once you set your username and password, you are ready to go to start earning cryptocurrency rewards for using the site, as well as for posting messages, writing blogs, and sharing videos and pictures.
Minds is one of the few social networking platforms that truly embodies the transparency movement
by keeping the entire software stack free and open source (and not just the added blockchain or token
layer). Minds takes numerous actions to make the network as transparent as possible while maintaining user
privacy. First and foremost, the code is 100% free and open source and available to the public.
Minds is an open source social media platform hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
blockonomi.com - Guide to Minds.com: The Social Media Site That Pays You in Crypto
Thanks Kathie Gifford , I will give this a try.
ReplyDeleteI've just set up a Minds account. Looks promising!
ReplyDeleteHayo Jongbloed Come and take a look at my account: minds.com - CultureKat | Minds
ReplyDeleteMarcus Burggraf Come and take a look at my channel if you set yours up: minds.com - CultureKat | Minds
ReplyDeleteSome of however can't deal with the extreme right that uses Minds to push their agendas. On G+, that'd be okay because you can block them.. Here you can only block you seeing them, not them seeing you.
ReplyDeleteOh you can't? Really? Also In the first few mins I already found a guy from G+ I want to block but even after I did so I still see his posts in a group?
ReplyDeleteI'm there... @mnkeeperb
ReplyDeletehttps://www.minds.com/mnkeeperb
looked into minds myself, too. It really looks quite nice, is fast and easy to use.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things missing from there is the lack of good functionality for groups.
For example there are no categories in groups and you can't pin messages, but I guess that will come if enough users are using it.
Additionally, the lack of decent privacy tools is a huge disadvantage.
Just to give you an idea of whats going on around there.. here's the first page you get once you first log in.
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Matt Moore And where is the problem? None of the stuff you circled is hate speech.
ReplyDeleteomg you guys truth and freedom
ReplyDelete#REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Martin Krischik We aren't supposed to be talking politics in here and I will respect that.
ReplyDeleteBut log into Minds, click on one of those hashtags and then judge. Because they ARE hate speech. But you don't have to take my word for it, look yourself.
Free speech means all speech. Choose what you want to read and ignore the rest. Just because a topic is trending does not mean that's the whole attitude of the network. I'm on Minds and there are a LOT of diverse viewpoints and attitudes on there. It's very easy to customize your feed to make it what you want. No one looks at the top "boosted" posts slider.
ReplyDeleteHayo Jongbloed can't find you on Minds... what's your handle?
ReplyDeleteBobbi Jo Woods it's HJongbloed :-)
ReplyDeleteBobbi Jo Woods 1. Free speech does not apply to businesses. 2. While hate speech is covered under the 1st amendment, the incitement of violence is not.. the fine line between the two was actually thickened.. because violence is encourage and practiced so much more these days.
ReplyDeleteDid you know they found snipers at a Portland rally? And those snipers didn't get arrested?
Where do you think these people organized? Because it wasn't by snail mail. They find each other on social media.
Minds as a business that's brought up in this post protects all speech.
ReplyDeleteIf you are not interested in that platform, you are free to go where things are censored to make you feel safer. I myself would rather see things I disagree with so I know who to avoid.
Can you explain how the hashtags you circled in your image incite violence any more than other hashtags would?
I'm not sure what your Portland comments have to do with Minds' website. Maybe you could do a full investigation and talk about it elsewhere. It's not pertinent to this post.
Bobbi Jo Woods I am doing what I can not to get to political on here to follow the rules of the community.
ReplyDeleteBut if you were to go to Minds, you will find pages like this one.. a community that paints Muslims as violent (and HOW do you protect yourself against violent people?), deviants and all sorts of things..
minds.com - Jihad Countermeasures | Minds
This morning the MAGA hashtag went straight to an article almost exactly in line with this pages beliefs.
If you don't thing pages like this cause violence, you are kidding yourself.
Join the group for Google+ refugees on Minds for information and tips. minds.com - Google+ Refugees
ReplyDeleteOctober 18, 2018
#GooglePlus #GooglePlusRefugees #tips