I decided to try http://www.Minds.com as a replacement for Google+. To my surprise I found a very similar Google+ experience on Minds. I don't care about earning money for content, so I am ignoring that and using Minds like I would Google+. I still set up my Minds wallet because it seemed to be a requirement.
I can't imagine social media without gifs...it's my passion. Minds accepts my gifs which tend to be large in size. Pluspora did not. Pluspora also abbreviated the posts so you had to click on 'Show More' to see the whole post. Minds does not do that. Minds allow you to edit your post. Pluspora did not. It's more like Google+.
At Minds, you set up your profile (Channel). As I understand it, you won't see your friends' posts unless you subscribe to their channel. They will need to subscribe to your channel too. Put hashtags in your post for wider distribution in searches.
#GooglePlusReplacement #Minds #SocialMedia
I can't imagine social media without gifs...it's my passion. Minds accepts my gifs which tend to be large in size. Pluspora did not. Pluspora also abbreviated the posts so you had to click on 'Show More' to see the whole post. Minds does not do that. Minds allow you to edit your post. Pluspora did not. It's more like Google+.
At Minds, you set up your profile (Channel). As I understand it, you won't see your friends' posts unless you subscribe to their channel. They will need to subscribe to your channel too. Put hashtags in your post for wider distribution in searches.
#GooglePlusReplacement #Minds #SocialMedia
minds.com - Minds was created and funded by the Alt-Right and the extreme right, neo-nazis and is it heavily funded by those groups.
ReplyDeletePlease don't go there. The main purpose of the group was to build a platform where NAZI propaganda, and extremely racist and sexist material could be shared without them loosing their data or audience.
Farhad Abdolian I haven't seen any such material on Minds. I can't tell you how tired I am of social justice warriors dividing us into gangs and labeling people in order to ostracize them from society. They used to do that in puritanical days...marking women with a big scarlet red letter on their foreheads for not behaving as told. Is that where the USA is going?
ReplyDeleteNow the media and activist groups seek out people that don't agree with their ideology and try to publicly assassinate their character. It's wrong on so many levels. It's repressive and fascist. I don't want to live in a society like that.
Are your ideas so feeble that you can't have a discussion and debate your views? We are human beings with different viewpoints. It never used to be a problem until this generation. We had lively debates, shook hands afterwards and went for a drink. We learned from each other. We were inspired by each other to broaden our minds. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. We agreed to disagree.
Now there's all this hate and resentment. Enough! Let people post what they want. There's free speech in the USA and it has never been a problem until this generation...they are going to have miserable, isolated lives always under attack. Losing friends over politics is stupid! Not being able to speak freely to your friends because they'll attack you for your politics is stupid.
This #WalkAway video broke my heart. youtube.com - "I walked out of one closet, into another one" #WalkAway
Leave politics out of social media. Just block people you don't want to interact with.
I have been on minds since the early beta, just look at the politics hash tag.
ReplyDeleteA Nazi is a Nazi, you chose where you want to do.
Farhad Abdolian I think I would start off by looking up the definition of a Nazi.
ReplyDeleteDave White REALLY? Just look at their site, people have image of Hitler, the Swatsika and emblem of Hitler's germany. Is that good enough for you?
ReplyDeleteFarhad Abdolian I haven't run into any pictures of Hitler or swatsikas on Minds but I ran into this Minds post...
ReplyDeletehttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IeldQfR6hXwe-NwdepDhXLBHdfhvz_hT1uMXtqH1k29ebSoS-soVL3Xsotsj3bk3ITJtqTwqgmSWVJo=s0
Here's another post from Minds...
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Here's another post from Minds...
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Kathie Gifford I guess if one seeks out stuff one will find it. If I don't like something I just change the channel so to speak. SJW's get triggered so easily, and condemn the whole cart
ReplyDeleteSo... instead of the so-called neo-nazis and alt-right people, Minds is populated by GIFs and inspirational quotes? To be honest I'm tired of seeing such things on facebog, I don't think I can stand that in another platform either.
ReplyDeleteFinding stuff is one thing, but the foundation of the site, the people behind it are the Nazis. Good luck with your move.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I much prefer MeWe.com over Minds, but this character assassination has to stop. So here is the "scary" founder and creator of Minds: https://www.minds.com/ottman
ReplyDeleteHere is the page for the #politics hashtag: https://www.minds.com/search;q=%23politics;ref=hashtag-trending
Here are the trending hashtags:
#minds
#news
#myphoto
#art
#politics
#photography
#maga
#music
#nature
#trump
#truth
#censorship
#usa
#freedom
#beautiful
#freespeech
#gaming
#walkaway
#facebook
#vietnam
Oh, and you wanna know why #Vietnam is trending? Because a large segment of the people on Minds actually are Vietnamese who have been censored by Facebook & Twitter.
(P.S. I'm just the big, bad scary libertarian whose goal is to rule the world just to let people be left alone to themselves. Crazy, right?)
Cydramech Zaharak +1000
ReplyDelete#facts
Minds must be a place free of SJWs and cryptofanatics, which doesn't censor free speech like Facebook or Twitter. Must check it out.
ReplyDeleteI think the plus side would be to look at what u enjoy and not look at what u don't . For me it's about a good news channel for my favourite football team over a cold beer in my local . Kat's GIFs r true entertainment but I equally understand how she'd not fist punching the air as a goal goes in . If u r into nazi activity the "hey" really ...more fool u , life's too short
ReplyDeleteMy problem with minds.com was that it was boring. There are going to be people I disagree with anywhere I go. That's just how life is. Nazis and the alt-right I can cope with, by blocking them if nothing else. But boredom? That's a much more difficult problem.
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci 'Boredom' as is "couldn't figure out what to do with it" or "couldn't find anyone worth following"? Like 'ghost town'? 😂
ReplyDeleteDer Tiefe Staatsbunker - all the porn? I have to add Minds to my special list of sites...
ReplyDeleteI am so glad the whole 'Nazi' thing was shot down instead of ignored (or even supported). I'm surprised you weren't called a Nazi for defending it, since that's a common (really bad) argument back.
ReplyDeleteI lean liberal in terms of actual policies (sans free speech issues/affirmative action/etc.), but I can't identify as them anymore due to how hateful and easily triggered the most outspoken of them are. And I can't stand how both sides demonize entire groups, when so many of them are perfectly fine people. "Conservatives are so bigoted; Democrats are so easily triggered." No, some conservatives are, and some Democrats are. Stop putting entire swaths of people into one box. (I'm not saying anyone was doing that here; that's an overall theme I've seen.)
Anyway, I tried Minds a few days ago and wasn't impressed at all, but I definitely preferred it over Pluspora and their horrible lack of an edit button. I personally have been using MeWe and I hope more people will follow once they allow for public posts in December. We'll see.
Isn't it obvious to everyone that Farhad Abdolian is just a butthurt troll?
ReplyDeleteIf they are a troll, that'd be great. It wasn't obvious to me, since real people think this way (regrettably).
ReplyDeleteElisebeth Ross Absolutely true. It's called Poe's Law.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Yes, I've heard of that before, and it's sad. It's just gotten so much worse in recent years (at least from what I can see). People be crazy.
ReplyDeleteFarhad Abdolian It's my understanding that the same is true of MeWe - if not by the founders' intention, then by who has wound up using the service. These groups flock to services that advertise "free speech," etc., and tend to take them over. I do not use social media to debate my views (which is the height of online futility); I use it to share photographs and collaborate with other creatives, many of whom have become close friends in the years since the G+ Beta.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about other people but when I first arrived in G+ in 2011, most people I found are 4channers. You know what kind of reputation 4chan has. But they didn't turn G+ into another 4chan, although 4chan founder himself was among the earlier adopters (and was quite active too, even I had him in my circle back in the day). He was later hired by Google.
ReplyDeleteYou can find a similar Google+ experience at mewe.com (edited for comparison clarity)
ReplyDeleteI haven't looked hard enough to see if there are Nazis, but I can confirm that tons of communities on MeWe are pro-Trump which is the same thing as being a Nazi, right? I kid. I saw maybe two liberal groups and literally scores of conservative ones.
ReplyDeleteBut especially with its current forced privacy settings, one literally never has to see or interact with any of them unless one happens to be in a community they're in (but they still won't be able to see/comment on one's profile posts).
(That said, I'm looking forward to things going public.)
Farhad Abdolian why worry about the founders of a site? Sites are tools and nothing more. There may be some questionable groups that use email or Signal Messenger, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop using those because of the inventor or other people on the platform.
ReplyDeleteI'm not working for The CIA so I really don't need to dig into other people's backgrounds to the extent you're implying is necessary to make decisions in daily life. As one of my mentors said, if we're at a charity fundraiser we don't care who puts money in the bucket. We don't return checks to organizations that may have an ulterior motive or values that conflict with ours. We don't ask those kinds of questions. We do the one thing we're sitting here to do, raise money in this case, and rule out all other things. Best life advice I've ever had.
If you look more than one degree of separation beyond the transaction you're trying to accomplish you're in the weeds. Deep in the weeds. Or you're working for The CIA or some other law enforcement agency. Ordinary people are not micromanaging their consumption of goods and services 8 degrees of separation out.
Kathie Gifford "Walkaway" is a well-financed cynical fake movement to try to nullify liberal voters. The name is a
ReplyDeleteshallow ripoff of the book by Cory Doctorow.
I would suggest looking at who are the financiers and admins of Minds and any other place you consider moving to since they control the platform and can do what they will regardless of - and to influence and "manage" - their user base. (Here's looking at you, Google.)
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing about some platforms in the Fediverse is that you can become the Admin. And as we all know, Sys Admins rule the Earth.
p.s., hat tip Kent Crispin for reminding me of Doctorow.
craphound.com - When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth | Cory Doctorow's
For any service that has an owner, the users are all ultimately at the complete mercy of that owner. personally, that makes me uncomfortable, particularly since it seems that we always get sold out.
ReplyDeleteMy ideal would be something that has no owner - something like Usenet (in that regard only), so that no company or government could censor it or shut it down.
Farhad Abdolian , dont forget who you talk to. In the USA, the whole political spectrum is shifted right. What we call extreme right in Europe will be mild conservative in USA. They call Hillary Clinton left wing while she is just slightly at the left of Le Pen...
ReplyDeleteMinds is screwing up with users. They're not answering some questions by deleting them! plus.google.com - UPDATE: MINDS HAS SHOWN THEY DON'T WANT US. SO NEVER MINDS! I think I found...
ReplyDeleteCan the left-wing crybabies please stop bitching and moaning and trying to block people and businesses because they do not toe their party line?
ReplyDeletevladislav Ivanov It's "toe", actually. Not "tow".
ReplyDeleteHmm. "Left-wing crybabies".
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci is correct.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
Halfey Halphstein I posted here extreme opposite examples of alt-right I found on Minds. You can find whatever you want to find on Minds. Just search hashtags. If you can't find it, why not contribute it. I have eclectic interests and I'm enjoying looking around Minds. Check out this Minds channel: minds.com - Joe Carter | Minds
ReplyDeleteThey write "get paid in crypto for your content", which is a VERY BAD idea to start with. If popularity is the only scale to measure things, they are up to no good.
ReplyDeleteCydramech Zaharak WOW are you refreshing! Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteI am not a practicing religious person but I have come to believe in this tenant: 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' It's really all you need to live a happy, moral and productive life. If you don't want to be hit over the head for wearing a t-shirt with a certain slogan on it, don't do it to anyone else. If you want to be able to speak your mind, don't shut down other people's
expression. If you wouldn't want it done to you, don't do it to others no matter how much you dislike them.
Referring to the definitions below, the USA doesn't have a fuhrer. Our president is not for life. He or she is gone after at least eight years. Is the USA constitution totalitarian? I think not. Is there a ban on all non-whites from entering the USA? No. Is there a ban on all non-whites from holding office? No. We've had Obama, Colin Powell, and a whole hosts of non-white congresspeople and governors. The Republicans had two Hispanics, a Black, a governor with Indian ancestry, and a woman running for president in 2016 while the Democrats had two white men and a white woman, but it's the Republicans that are racist and Nazis?
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
Definition of Nazism
: the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer
Halfey Halphstein Good point,
ReplyDeleteNishit Dave I don't believe anyone's speech is censored on Minds. I was told that by someone that has been on Minds a long time. There is no Facebook Prison on Minds to my knowledge...you just lose subscribers (followers) that don't like your content.
ReplyDeleteKarl Hansen I was looking for certain features...especially the ability to post large sized gifs , post images with replies, and editing posts. I really like the look of Minds and the functionality. There's no censor except your subscribers (followers). They don't like your speech/content, they unsubscribe. It's very much like Google+.
ReplyDeletePaul Cox You said, 'I think the plus side would be to look at what u enjoy and not look at what u don't .' Paul, you made the goal there! If a platform doesn't have what you are looking for, why not contribute the content? It will draw others with similar interests who want to share.
ReplyDeleteKent Crispin Kent, have you watched any of the #WalkAway videos or the one I posted below? There's nothing fake or cynical about the pain these people are in at the hands of their Leftist friends who told them to go to hell because they hold different political views.
ReplyDeleteTake a minute and watch this woman and tell me it's fake...she's in real pain at the thought of losing her friend. She has to make a choice: be true to herself or to hide her true feelings to keep her friend. It's unconscionable to put friends in this position and cause this kind of pain. People should agree to disagree and just not talk politics.
Stop ostracizing and belittling people for being true to themselves. Kanye used to be the darling of the Left and they turned on him like a school of hungry, hateful piranhas when he began to speak his own mind. They even stooped so low as to use his previous mental illness against him. Disgraceful!
youtube.com - "I walked out of one closet, into another one" #WalkAway
Kathie Gifford Hell, it's also a key law behind the physical universe: that which goes around, comes around; whatever a man shall sow, he shall reap.
ReplyDeleteElisebeth Ross Thank you for your comments. I totally agree with you. Each to their own.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to be helpful in sharing my experience and even in such an endeavor, politics has to intrude. But I know that that intrusion was coming from a good place...warning me about what they thought was bad. I'm right of center so what they were warning me about was...me!
I tried Pluspora but it didn't have the features I want. Minds does. It's just that simple. As far as looking for content, no one has told me I have to be on just ONE site! LOL
I used this spreadsheet that compares features. Maybe you will find it helpful: docs.google.com - G+ Alternatives
Peter Maranci Here's a spreadsheet that compares features and censorship of various platforms that might help you decide..
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Kathie Gifford Thanks! I created that document, actually. 😁
ReplyDeleteHolger Jakobs The crypto aspect of Minds can be ignored. It's like playing online games...you can play for free but if you want extra powerful features, you pay money. I don't intend to pay any money on Minds. I set up my Minds wallet...maybe I'll get free tokens to gain access to special content.
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci in your spreadsheet, note that you can edit comments in Friendca. I don't see a column for that, so I just note such in the same cell.
ReplyDeleteLi Gardner Thanks, that's fine!
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci Seriously, you created the spreadsheet? LOL, the jokes on me. I got it from a friend. Hahahaha. Everything comes full circle.
ReplyDeleteThank you for creating it!!! It's very useful!
Just so everyone that reads this will know what I'm talking about, it's a Google+ alternative comparison spreadsheet: docs.google.com - G+ Alternatives
Jimmy Giusto I hope your art doesn't have some hidden meaning...I like the overall composition and colors!
ReplyDeleteKathie Gifford I did, but of course I'm not the only one who filled it in. That was done by a lot of people from the group. It's a public document, so you could help fill it in yourself! 😃
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci The spreadsheet has been of great help and massive time saver for me. Thank you and the others so much.
ReplyDeleteFarhad Abdolian assertions without proof can be dismissed without proof. As can arguments putting the burden of proof on others isn't a good way to start the argument off either. It's deliberately using fallacious logic to virtue signal against a censorship free platform.
ReplyDeleteI've been on minds for well over a year. Before they had their new token system. There are edge Lords and shit posters about, but haven't even met someone I would call alt right yet. Perhaps because you are #SaltLeft all you can see are nazis. Nazis everywhere.
Daniel Hatfield I'd love to check out your content on Minds. Here's my Minds channel: minds.com - CultureKat | Minds
ReplyDeleteRegarding political content on social media: “I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.” Anthony Bourdain
ReplyDeleteKathie Gifford “I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
ReplyDeleteThat used to be the core of the "left". Today it's an alien, incomprehensible statement to most of them.