MindsReviews of minds.com

This started like a good idea. I was one of the early adopters. The whole philosophy about being against censorship was very appealing and while it never gained a lot of traction, Minds was a good corner of freedom in a sea of curated and "verified" content. Then they tried to monetize it around a blockchain token. Some people tried to game that, but eventually when the crypto market crashed, it brought the whole ecosystem down by rendering it worthless. Then, Minds started forming large echo-chambers, where people with slightly different ideas suffered bullying. Also, despite still being free of censorship, the main ideas that echo the loudest on the site are quite passe. Conspiracy theories which were loud and active about 3 years ago, been disproven, or superseded since then, are somehow still live and active on Minds. Also, as this is so niche, I don't really have any real life friends on Minds, so I rarely use it these days, as it's dying.

Minds looked promising when it launched but after they made changes with chat to put it in a separate site, forcing the user to create 2 accounts in order to use a social media that has been split into two, they lost users. It's not very active now, and in order to make money, they delete the videos we post after a month of posting them, forcing us to pay an upgrade in order to keep them on our profile! Not so smart!

I'm only leaving a REVIEW today because i was banned last night for "INAUTHENTIC ENGADGEMENT" what ever that means, something to do with spam. first off tokens don't really matter to me i got a PLUS account because i wanted to be verified and have ONLY one account, i am aware of bot spamming also not a fan of my user name being @ in peoples posts who are saying they are Flagging bots. That isn't cool in my book, they call that Brigading and i'm not even a "click group" person i stick to my own opinions and interact with whoever shares opinions i'm active VERY active cos i use it as a way to avoid making real friends i've already bought 2 years worth of Plus so i'm paying IN and geting treated like a bot? like guys you really gotta fix the flagging system bots are gonna flag real users off the platform and thats your REAL inauthentic Engagement. I have appealed i will up my star to 4 if it gets over turned or 1 if it gets ignored. like losing 200+ minds tokens meh what ever like all i want is to have my opinions heard and the risk of an out right ban with no real reason, guy guys are being really dodgey and know some of us can't take you to court over it, remember, DON'T do on to others that which you wouldn't have done on to yourself. we're not just USERNAMES and WALLS of text some of us are REAL flesh n blood humans and it's getting harder to be anything more than just CODE at this point cos reality is trying to turn real humans in to data and data in to real humans.

So minds.com was my first and longest foray into 'social media', a little over two years worth. So yesterday morning, after posting several more of my opinions/news links, I received an 'account banned' notification, without any explanation other than the mention of "spam". I responded in the mini-reply form they provide, and received nothing back. I've never received so much as a warning in over two years. I've been on internet offering my opinion since 1997, and have never 'spammed' a single thing. I can comment anywhere, and do so, so in one sense it's no great loss. But, I obviously offended the wrong person, or since I finally started for the first time to convert two years worth of unused 'tokens' into something spendable in the real world, someone took notice and banned me before I could. Whatever the reason, I still support the right of any 'social media' platform to do whatever they want with their own site, and make no mistake about it, all these sites belong to the owners, not the users. That said, minds,com is their own little fiefdom and will always remain so.

Honestly, I am least impressed with other posters on this social media site. I'm getting a lot of troll type comments from anti-truth posters. Not sure how many paid and how many brainwashed. Feels like so far a mainstream brainwashed infested type social media site rather than an alternative Truth social media sites for those of us already ridiculed for sharing Truth on others sites or worse.

I like the concept. Insurgent,site is a political leaning website that is mobile friendly. This is free speech. twitter like feed and you can create your own group and upload pics and video along with your own group twitter type feed, This site is similar to minds.

I have an account with this site that I can't close, about all you can do is deactivate it. Therefore, my profile is there permanently. They also try to be like facebook with their feeds. And their support staff is not too helpful either. Hope others will realize these issues before they join