MindsReviews of minds.com

I've used Minds for about two years. I've increased my use as I've found that a platform for free speech is necessary in a world of censoring, canceling, deplatforming, shadow banning, and suspension. They use crypto? Who cares! Use the site to speak your mind. If people don't like your views they don't have to read them. Freedom is beautiful. Thankyou Minds. Wish more people used the site.

Its got alot of rough edges, but its as close to a truly free speech social media as you are gonna get. Has some serious potential if the devs can get their butts in gear and fix a few of the problems.

I've been here about 17 months. In brief, it's a well-intentioned social media site that promises free speech and crypto rewards, and it delivers, mostly. Pros: • You can indeed post almost anything you want. • The site does reward you for posting content, and those rewards can be converted into crypto. • The site is straightforward in terms of building a following and you won't get held back by an algorithm that favors larger accounts. I gained over 2,000 followers on a new account in under 6 months. • Some features are better than other major social media sites: editing posts is great, scheduling posts has a good interface, there's no character limit on posts, and promoting ("boosting") posts is fast and free. Cons: • Converting your rewards into crypto goes through a wasteful and convoluted process that will cost you upward of $90-120 and take 1-72 hours, and sometimes you have to remind site staff to get it at all (but if you're not spamming you WILL get it, and it's ultimately free money). • If you are a spammer they will indeed keep any fees you pay and kick you out, but frankly you deserve that because your "rewards" came from the pockets of authentic users. • Because the site gives rewards, there are a lot of spammers trying to exploit the system—posting random images they found on google, leaving garbage comments, and creating tons of accounts to engage with themselves (say "hi" to Sinhala and the other nigerian spammers here in the 1-star reviews). • The site is poorly polished and many features are bugged or flawed in noticeable ways. • The site lacks some obvious and important features present in every other social media site (multi-image posting, polls, sharing comments, etc.) • Site improvements are few and far between, and development seems to prioritize new features no one asked for over fixing or adding features most users feel are important. • Leadership seems aloof, there's no clear direction for what the site wants to become, and transparency/communication with staff is poor—they do hold semiannual "town hall" meetings, but the response to everything is "good idea we'll work on that" with no difference in results. • Owners completely disregard the value of their official crypto token (MINDS) and make no effort to manage it monetarily or address investors' concerns. This is on top of the volatility of its base coin (Ethereum) and has caused the value to fluctuate anywhere from $4.00 to $0.20, lately on the lower end. • Many users are on Minds because they were banned from other social media platforms, which means a higher percent of users are dregs of society (actual schizos, edgy teens and 20-somethings, etc.) • The app has a poor UI and censors a lot of content (though the latter is Apple & Google's fault). In conclusion: Most of the site's flaws are related to features that are both unique to it and completely optional, so it's not like the myriad of issues surrounding the MINDS token detracts from its functionality as a social media site. The score is low because spammers are big mad and come here to cry about it, apparently. If you can look past the leadership squandering its potential and mismanaging their token, and don't expect anything to improve, it's still a functional social media site that is much more free—and easier to succeed on—than most.

I been using Minds for over 3 years now. Made a ton of friends, built a small business, been part of various community or admin organised events and contests. It's completely decentralised, open source platform. No corporate adds, special interests or any of that crap. Regular townhall meetings are held with administration, where you can talk to them face to face. There's always something going on there. The community is truly exceptional. Of course, being free speech platform you get occasional loon but that's what the block button is for. The other great benefit is they pay you to post unlike FB or Twatter. You can then use those tokens to boost your posts for exposure and grow your channel or as local Minds currency. You can support other content creators with them, the platform does have that function and it costs nothing to set up. Anyone can create a bunch of tiers for supporters and set up desired monthly fee. If you wanna exchange Minds tokens into crypto, you'll need Minds+ account unfortunately. It's cheap and definitely worth getting. Be warned though, if you do token farming by spamming Minds with generic nature or cat photos from google and brake TOS, your submitted transaction request will likely be blocked, tokens taken away. People hate spammers and token manipulators there. The community have groups dedicated to hunt those type of accounts. All in all, it's a great place to make friends, be original content creator and terrible for spammers, scammers and token manipulators. You wanna do well there, put in some work, build your following up like on any other social media platform. If you want to have your cake and eat it too, you'll be one of those complaining and calling it a scam when token transaction is blocked. Some people have a sense of entitlement the size of the planet. Freaking unreal. Come join if you value privacy, want to be part of cosy community and run your mouth freely without a fear of ban hammer. It's like FB but user centred, transparent platform. Anyone can check out the code, see how it works, check what's in development and so on. No hidden algorithms or shadowbans.

Minds pays you to use their Social Media site. Or rather advertisers pay and you get a decent cut of the profits. Even better, they pay you in cryptocurrency. The two screenshots below are my token balance and my Minds+ balance. The first is rewards for people liking, commenting on and retweeting your posts, the latter is a share of site revenue. If you wish you'd got into cryptocurrencies years ago then this site is for you. Frankly the education I've received in terms of DeFi, staking and the crypto community is worth far more than the rather impressive figures I've managed to earn. In many ways Minds embodies the philosophy of the crypto community. Ownership and governance should be shared ( so no Bill Gates or Zuckerberg types), centralisation of power is wrong and code is law. Hence there is no censorship and if someone transgresses the law then it is a jury panel of 12 users who decide what to do about it. Not moderators. On a user experience level it feels a bit like twitter only without the character limit. However where twitter is a cess pit the rewards structure seems to prevent Minds from becomming the same. If someone want's to organise a pile on on Minds then they are giving points to that user, hence things tend to be a lot more civilised. Hence if you disagree with something, you are incentivised to ignore it. It also has blogs and groups, some of the art and creator / NFT ones are particularly good. Artists and the like create things, turn them into NFTs and get points whn people comment or like them. It also allows them to showcase their wares on NFT markets, though I believe Minds are working on such too. It can feel a bit empty at first, though once you've followed some hashtags, cashtags or people your network seems to expand quickly. I'd suggest using your first tokens to 'boost' your content. One token = 1000 views so if you pick up a few subscribers then it's well worth it. It is still under active development and the rewards system has only been in place for a few months now. I have found the odd bug, though as it is open source reporting these helps to fix them. Whilst it isn't quite the finished article it is 98% there and the support staff seem to take any suggestions for how it can be improved. The roadmap for the future is impressive too, they recently raised $10 million and will be using this to make it even more decentralised... Which is the future I think. Without any censorship, shadowbanning or deboosting you can make an impression fairly quickly on Minds. I was verified after a couple of weeks, have well over 100 followers and really enjoy it there. Course the most impressive part is their integration into the Ethereum blockchain. You can take the tokens you have earned and convert them into Eth. The exchange rate varies but it's currently about 2500 tokens per Eth, I'd say it is reasonably easy to earn 2 or 3 tokens a day. Course this does attract people who view it as a cash machine rather than a social media site. As a free speech site you'll also find almost everyone who has been banned from Twitter, Facebook and the rest. The likes of Stefan Molyneux, Alex Jones and David Icke. If you don't follow them, you won't see it. There is also some content which is NSFW or reprehensible, though it must be marked such. Personally I don't really like the anime though there is a cotterie of people who insist that posting cartoons of worryingly young looking toons is free speech. The block button is your friend, so you'll only see it once from each user. Certainly the cryptocurrency, artists, conspiracy theorists and onlyfans types seem to be over-represented but there's plenty or normality and cute cat videos too. It is what you make of it. I took out plus membership ($5 a month) after a couple of weeks on the site, despite being stingy, which gets me a 25% share of ad revenue pro rata. You can also get Pro membership for $40, and 50% share of ad revenue. Thus far the ad revenue doesn't quite cover the $5 a month outlay, though it does considerably reduce it and you can buy plus membership with tokens, making it entirely free. I think you'd need quite a loyal following already to make real use of Pro membership. I love it, as you might be able to tell. It's a complete breath of fresh air and reminds me a bit of the internet back in the late 90s. The Wild West maybe, but thus far a very profitable and fun experience. I'm guessing that the negative reviews have been written by employees from rival sites.

So far better than facebook. There are many gray areas I can't answer, but glad to be part of minds. Atleast you will see people here voice out what they want, unlike fabook and google that will BAN you.

I think MINDS is peachy Keen. I have rarely ever encountered censorship, the people are nice and most are real- not your purple headed screaming harpy crowd. Lots of interesting people and content- if you don't go in planning to "spread truth' (as you progressives call it). It is much better than Facebook.

All of these reviews are fake. Misleading garbage from big tech employees, and their bots. $5000 says some blue haired weirdo that works for Google sent this stupid site to the top of their search engine.