MindsReviews of minds.com

A good place for small creators to build an audience. You won't be enslaved to some algorithm to get noticed, since the crypto rewards double as an advertising feature. Just follow some bigger accounts, leave some comments, and, if you have anything remotely interesting to say, you'll pull in a few tokens here and there, which you can use to boost your own posts. You also don't need to worry about getting banned for trivial garbage or having the "wrong" opinions. Bans are usually reserved for bots and spammers who try to abuse the crypto rewards. They're probably the ones leaving all the bad reviews too. The dev team is pretty aloof though, so updates are usually slow and often break the site temporarily. You'll know there's been an update when notifications stop working.

Good site. Don't have to worry about getting banned for petty stuff and the community is good too. Crypto rewards for engagement are cool but it has attracted a lot of spammers who get irate when you call them out and they get banned for trying to game the system.

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.

they promote articles that have politically-correct views and a leftist narrative avoid

I had a technical issue and got no support whatsoever. Tried reaching out numerous ways. The site is very buggy and features like account deletion do not work they way they are supposed to.