On Social Media

The Mind's social platform has open and closed group functionality as well a conversation feature: What is the group 'conversation'? The group's Conversation is where you can have a live chat with all members of the group. You can navigate to this by clicking on "Conversation" under the avatar. #minds #GooglePlusAlternative #Group https://www.minds.com/faq https://www.minds.com/faq

10 Best Alternatives to Facebook: This article fails to mention that MeWe charges monthly fees for storage exceeding 8 gigs and there's also a fee-based chat. Click the Cloud icon at the top of your MeWe page to see the monthly fees. If you post a lot of images and gifs, you might hit the 8 gigs limit over time. I was told by Martina Neumayer that to avoid those limits just use some external storage which allows you direct linking to other services. For example, Mega has something like that. Static images will display through links on MeWe. They will have a preview in the post. If someone wants to have full resolution, then they need to click on it and will be redirected to the source image. A bit different is with the animations (anim gifs). Some of them are displayed, some only with previews and need to click to play, and some will be as links. I think this depends directly on the gif file. MeWe is a markdown-based page, that means you can use all markdown language tags, opti...

Google+ shutdown moved up to April 2019. API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. From the December 10, 2018 link below: Google+ has suffered another data leak, and Google has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. Google+ will now close to consumers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to developers, even if their account was set to private. Apps could also access profile data that had been shared with a specific user, but was not shared publicly. “WITH THE DISCOVERY OF THIS NEW BUG, WE HAVE DECIDED TO EXPEDITE THE SHUT-DOWN OF ALL GOOGLE+ APIS.” In October, a similar Google+ vulnerability was revealed to have exposed private user data to develo...

#google Originally shared by Panah Rad Google Shutting Down Allo Messenger https://www.redmondpie.com/google-shutting-down-allo-messenger-hangout-and-meet-coming-to-non-corporate-users/ meh https://www.redmondpie.com/google-shutting-down-allo-messenger-hangout-and-meet-coming-to-non-corporate-users/

New Minds Users: Minds is not Facebook, My experience MOONLIT🌙MONKEY DEC 2, 2018 Since coming to Minds.com, I’ve realized a lot of things about the place. It’s hard to sum it all up. But if I did, the word that would come to mind is: Community Minds is a community where most other social media is not. Vibrant Here, we have a collection of political dissidents, Google plus refugees, and journalists who speak a truth a bit too hard hitting for the vanilla blandness of the politically correct landscape. We have artists, photographers, writers, and musicians who value freedom of expression. We have crypto enthusiasts, anarchists, socialists, national socialists, centrists, western chauvinists, liberals, conservatives and every shade of wrong-thinker. We have occultists, new agers, conspiracy theorists, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, and mystics. We have the social media curious and more. We have free thinking. A diversity of thought. In short, there’s a lot of very differently t...

New this week: Google Photos no longer shares to Google+ #GooglePlusRefugees #GooglePlus #GooglePhotos Originally shared by Peggy K New this week: Google Photos no longer shares to Google+, new Google My Business app to help interaction with customers, Project Fi always-on VPN and more This coming week is Thanksgiving in the US, which means big sales and few updates. That means updates needed to be launched this past week, to get ahead of the holiday. There * While Google+ won’t be completely shut down until August 2019, other Google products and services will be disconnected before then. This week Google Photos removed the option to share images to Google+. You can still share a link to an image in your Google Photos account, or select a recent image from Google Photos when creating a new Google+ post. (Technically you can select an older image from Google Photos, but that requires scrolling through your photo library to find it.) * The Google contact cards that appear on mobile when...

Why Epik welcomed Gab.com By Rob Monster, November 3, 2018 Domain Investing, Domain Law, Domain Name Asset Management The domain Gab.com has landed at Epik. This post will summarize why Epik welcomed Gab.com. It will also address why I believe the operators of the site have the right to be online. De-Platforming is Digital Censorship. Blacklisting is Digital Shunning. For those not familiar with the case, Gab.com’s ability to operate was abruptly terminated by Godaddy, among other vendors, who deemed Gab to have violated their terms of service. This de-platforming of Gab generated much discussion in the mainstream technology press. It also prompted a lively discussion in the professional domain name community, including at the popular discussion board NamePros. As the news broke, and as some elements in the mainstream media rendered their judgement, I embarked on my own search for truth. Along the way, I did have an opportunity to meet with the Founder of Gab, Andrew Torba, an entrepr...

The founder of Minds.com, Bill Ottoman, explains the genesis of his site, censorship (and the whack-a-mole outcome), free speech, hate speech, challenges facing social media today, comparison between Minds and other social media sites, and the new framework of peer-to-peer (Web 3) to avoid government censorship. Even if you are not into Minds.com, this discussion will help make you aware of the various environments the social media sites create and their varied solutions to the challenges that face all social media. Choose your poison. November 7, 2018 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/906901436236058624 #Minds #censorship #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/906901436236058624

Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the web) has created code to import Google+ Takeout data into Solid. My recommendation is don't use this yet as it's still rough. I'm posting this here simply to draw attention to the fact that there may be some solutions underway for doing something interesting with your Google+ data after the shutdown. Stay tuned. I will post updates in this new collection. https://github.com/solid/solid-takeout-import

Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the web) has created code to import Google+ Takeout data into Solid. My recommendation is don't use this yet as it's still rough. I'm posting this here simply to draw attention to the fact that there may be some solutions underway for doing something interesting with your Google+ data after the shutdown. Stay tuned. I will post updates in this new collection. https://github.com/solid/solid-takeout-import

Wherever you relocate too, be aware of this situation if you use private chats or messages... Oh no if you've had private chats on Facebook...Facebook said its security had not been compromised and that the data was likely obtained through malicious browser extensions. From the link below: Up to 120 million Facebook accounts are 'up for sale for EIGHT PENCE each' online after Russian hackers publish private messages from 81,000 global users. Private messages from UK, Ukraine, Russia, US, Brazil and elsewhere published. Hackers were attempting to sell access to the accounts online for 8 pence per profile. Examples included intimate messages between a couple and holiday photos sent privately over Facebook messenger. Examples of the messages published included an intimate chat between two lovers, complaints about a son in-law, photos of a recent holiday sent privately between two Facebook friends and a chat about a recent Depeche Mode concert. The perpetrators claim they hav...

From the link below: One of the questions for Bill Ottman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Minds: Do you have any advice to share with other entrepreneurs with regards to growing a brand or business? Build something that puts equal attention into your philosophy and principles (eg transparency, privacy, free speech) while simultaneously hitting the human nature nerve (eg. incentives rewards, viral reach). Keep the branding clean and open for evolution. We have made a few small pivots and that wouldn’t be possible without a brand/domain that was too limited in language. Control your tools. Use as much open source software as possible and don’t cave to the convenience temptation for aspects of the product that matter. For instance, everyone who used Facebook login on their apps just decimated their user’s privacy in the recent hack of 50m accounts. Reliance on major tech companies for your infrastructure is high-risk. October 30, 2018 https://masur.com/lawtalk/bill-ottman-co-founder-ceo-of-m...

An interesting review of Google+ alternative social media sites Mastadon, MeWe, Minds, GAB and Vero with screen shots. October 29, 2018 https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/29/ready-to-get-off-facebook-reason-reviews #GooglePlusMigration #GooglePlus #socialMediaSites #Mastadon #MeWE #Minds #GAB #Vero https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/29/ready-to-get-off-facebook-reason-reviews

The uncensored, free speech social media platform known as Minds.com has adopted a bill of rights. Minds is an alternative site to Google+ that provides a similar experience but is open source. Developers are working on adding features. Your real name is not required to open a Minds account. Only an email address is required. Minds is officially adopting the Manila Principles On Intermediary Liability, a digital bill of rights, outlined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other leading digital rights organizations. The principles have been endorsed by nearly 300 leading press freedom and technology policy organizations and individuals. They act as a guideline for protecting freedom of expression and create an open environment for innovation. It is our hope to create a network effect of companies and organizations adopting the principles to further Internet freedom globally. The Manila Principles On Intermediary Liability 1. Intermediaries should be shielded from liability for...

Click on the image to enlarge it if it hard to read. A message on why GAB (a censor-free alternative to Twitter) is down. Where ever you migrate to, if it is free speech and without censors and one of the users commits an atrocity, service providers that support your platform may pull there services and leave the site down like GAB.

Join the group for Google+ refugees on Minds for information and tips. https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/896384555164274688 October 18, 2018 #GooglePlus #GooglePlusRefugees #tips https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/896384555164274688

I'm building a presence on Minds at https://www.minds.com/CultureKat as my Google+ alternative site...still hoping Google+ doesn't sunset. Below is an example of how you can select and add custom hashtags to personalize your Minds newsfeed (like Home in Google+) so you see just what you want to see. Personalize your Minds Newsfeed by selecting hashtags of interests you'd like to see. Write whatever hashtag you'd like to use and see in the blank box and then click on the tiny arrow to add it to the list. Use hashtags in all your posts on Minds. #Minds #ExampleCustomizeMinds #googlePlus #GooglePlusAlternative

I am using Minds because it gives an experience very much like Google+. Here's information on the use of hashtags in Minds. Minds does not require you use your real name when creating an account. My first name is Culture and my second name is Kat. Then I only needed to provide an email. I can share my posts with Twitter and Facebook. From jack Minds (Help & Support) OCT 18, 2018, 1:37:20 PM Please read this blog for some information on the new updates to Minds. The new hashtag system will make it much easier to discover content based on your interests, and it will allow you to filter your "top" feeds by hashtags. This will be a major improvement for helping to organize content, groups and channels and we plan on leveraging these tags in the future for better Boost targeting and more. The new rate limit system is a direct response to the many complaints we have received about spam channels who are abusing the site's features for personal gain. This is just the f...

Exploring the Minds.com Images tab... #Minds #gif #biking

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-yo...