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I encourage you all to check out Minds. In my opinion, Minds has a much more interesting compensation model: you can directly send money to creators (feature c

I encourage you all to check out Minds. In my opinion, Minds has a much more interesting compensation model: you can directly send money to creators (feature called Wire) either generally or on a specific post. There is also an internal points system where you are compensated by interactions with your content. If you have enough points, they have a real monetary value. Also, as an added bonus, the website and apps are open source, and actually function quite well. It overall has a Facebook sort of feel in terms of feature set; but with a model that seems less exploitative and more collaborative. https://minds.com/ https://minds.com/

aaron-lebo 9y ago
That homepage looks like someone made a wordpress site for a megachurch. Gaudy as fuck. When service doesn't get design this early and instead just crams everything they can into a page, it's good sign they're lacking taste, and that's something that can't really be overcome. It's like they're so unsure about their own service that they feel they need to overcompensate by talking about all the features it has instead of just naturally showing them. And points for hourly check ins? Modals reminding me to install apps when reading posts (got one when trying to read the terms of service, too)? In fact, you apparently can't visit the groups link without getting the pop up. I just want to try your damn site. Ugh. 18 MBs of content on load? Don't do that to the web. Despite it's own limitations, Yours is lot, lot cleaner. Compare: http://www.scientology.org/ http://www.scientology.org/ (is that the same font in the header?) After some more searching around, it's like the same audience repeated across all of these sites ("alt right" and cryptocurrency obsessed). Stefan Molyneux one of the main users of minds and also one of the first users of Yours? You guys are setting yourselves up for failure if you don't diversify your audience quick. https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux https://www.minds.com/StefanMolyneux https://www.minds.com/StefanMolyneux https://www.yours.org/profile/b32fd24245734d632b5f3ee35a2b85d622b7b1f84a46dbb360a4979996484413 https://www.yours.org/profile/b32fd24245734d632b5f3ee35a2b85... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Cult_accusations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Cult_accusatio... Here's the third most followed user, "truth": https://www.minds.com/truth https://www.minds.com/truth Complete with "Antifa victim, Kiara Robles, speaks out about political violence in Berkeley." "Hillary Clinton blames everyone from James Comey to Bernie Sanders for her blistering defeat to Donald Trump" "Why Did World Trade Center Building 7 Fall? New Study Claims Gov’t Story Is False" I hear r/conspiracy is nice this time of year, but there's not Bitcoin to be made if that gets big, yeah?
- yafujifide 9y ago
  We suspect that is not the real Stefan Molyneux. We will have flagging and moderation to deal with this soon. Also we will allow more auth options so people can prove who they are (twitter auth, e.g.)
- splintercell 9y ago
  Right now nearly all new social networks (esp the one which promise free speech) will see an influx from alt right and conservative refugees. Dtube (distributed Youtube) is see it for yourself. People are complaining about alt-right and conservative refugees being the early adopters of any distributed/decentralized/free speech platform: https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/6zlza1/please_dont_make_dtube_an_ideological_nightmare/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/6zlza1/please_dont_m...
shadytrees 9y ago
all alt-right stuff. flag and move on
- microcolonel 9y ago
  Here's a list of some non-alt-right profiles I tossed a rock and found. In fact, none of the top profiles appear to be alt-right at all. https://www.minds.com/Timcast https://www.minds.com/Timcast [Independent journalist who frequently embeds himself in mild to hot political protests and is fairly careful with his words] https://www.minds.com/Styxhexenhammer https://www.minds.com/Styxhexenhammer [Occult author, political/general commentator, plus some more light content] https://www.minds.com/cafeinacoli https://www.minds.com/cafeinacoli [Graphic artist]
  - aaron-lebo 9y ago
    They might not be "alt right", but they're really fascinated by it. Here's Timcast: Propaganda, tribalism, and Ben Shapiro in Berkeley The Alt-Left double standard. What is bit coin and can you still make money by investing? Here's the second user: Pewdiepie did nothing wrong. Anyone acting offended is probably lying through their teeth. The people who know/care about Shapiro are conservative, same goes for those defending a guy who makes jokes about Jews and uses the n-word. Your third user just happens to "retweet" the first. It's a very small and focused community there. Also from the last user: BREAKING: Now is your chance to become a founding investor of Minds. We are taking the idea of a people-powered global network to the next level. Invest now before we reach our goal! That explains the evangelism?
    - scriptdevil 9y ago
      Ben Shapiro is definitely not the "alt-right". Unless by the alt-right you mean all conservatives. He was heavily targeted by the alt-right since he supported Cruz and he still is on the fence about Trump (criticizes him fairly often). Also he is an Orthodox Jew.
      - 9y ago
vrsep 9y ago
Search doesn't work well: cannot find woman in area. Only political nonsense.
- microcolonel 9y ago
  Yeah, it unfortunately takes time to build a community. The first wave seems to be people who have been burned by mass demonetization and poor discoverability on YouTube. The next mass after that is their audiences. The next after that will probably be the next wave of censorship refugees. This will likely continue until there are enough people for it to be a viable general social network (or not).

aaron-lebo 9y ago

That homepage looks like someone made a wordpress site for a megachurch. Gaudy as fuck. When service doesn't get design this early and instead just crams everything they can into a page, it's good sign they're lacking taste, and that's something that can't really be overcome. It's like they're so unsure about their own service that they feel they need to overcompensate by talking about all the features it has instead of just naturally showing them. And points for hourly check ins? Modals reminding me to install apps when reading posts (got one when trying to read the terms of service, too)? In fact, you apparently can't visit the groups link without getting the pop up. I just want to try your damn site. Ugh. 18 MBs of content on load? Don't do that to the web. Despite it's own limitations, Yours is lot, lot cleaner. Compare: http://www.scientology.org/ http://www.scientology.org/ (is that the same font in the header?) After some more searching around, it's like the same audience repeated across all of these sites ("alt right" and cryptocurrency obsessed). Stefan Molyneux one of the main users of minds and also one of the first users of Yours? You guys are setting yourselves up for failure if you don't diversify your audience quick. https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux https://www.minds.com/StefanMolyneux https://www.minds.com/StefanMolyneux https://www.yours.org/profile/b32fd24245734d632b5f3ee35a2b85d622b7b1f84a46dbb360a4979996484413 https://www.yours.org/profile/b32fd24245734d632b5f3ee35a2b85... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Cult_accusations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Cult_accusatio... Here's the third most followed user, "truth": https://www.minds.com/truth https://www.minds.com/truth Complete with "Antifa victim, Kiara Robles, speaks out about political violence in Berkeley." "Hillary Clinton blames everyone from James Comey to Bernie Sanders for her blistering defeat to Donald Trump" "Why Did World Trade Center Building 7 Fall? New Study Claims Gov’t Story Is False" I hear r/conspiracy is nice this time of year, but there's not Bitcoin to be made if that gets big, yeah?

yafujifide 9y ago
We suspect that is not the real Stefan Molyneux. We will have flagging and moderation to deal with this soon. Also we will allow more auth options so people can prove who they are (twitter auth, e.g.)
splintercell 9y ago
Right now nearly all new social networks (esp the one which promise free speech) will see an influx from alt right and conservative refugees. Dtube (distributed Youtube) is see it for yourself. People are complaining about alt-right and conservative refugees being the early adopters of any distributed/decentralized/free speech platform: https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/6zlza1/please_dont_make_dtube_an_ideological_nightmare/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/6zlza1/please_dont_m...

shadytrees 9y ago

all alt-right stuff. flag and move on

microcolonel 9y ago
Here's a list of some non-alt-right profiles I tossed a rock and found. In fact, none of the top profiles appear to be alt-right at all. https://www.minds.com/Timcast https://www.minds.com/Timcast [Independent journalist who frequently embeds himself in mild to hot political protests and is fairly careful with his words] https://www.minds.com/Styxhexenhammer https://www.minds.com/Styxhexenhammer [Occult author, political/general commentator, plus some more light content] https://www.minds.com/cafeinacoli https://www.minds.com/cafeinacoli [Graphic artist]
- aaron-lebo 9y ago
  They might not be "alt right", but they're really fascinated by it. Here's Timcast: Propaganda, tribalism, and Ben Shapiro in Berkeley The Alt-Left double standard. What is bit coin and can you still make money by investing? Here's the second user: Pewdiepie did nothing wrong. Anyone acting offended is probably lying through their teeth. The people who know/care about Shapiro are conservative, same goes for those defending a guy who makes jokes about Jews and uses the n-word. Your third user just happens to "retweet" the first. It's a very small and focused community there. Also from the last user: BREAKING: Now is your chance to become a founding investor of Minds. We are taking the idea of a people-powered global network to the next level. Invest now before we reach our goal! That explains the evangelism?
  - scriptdevil 9y ago
    Ben Shapiro is definitely not the "alt-right". Unless by the alt-right you mean all conservatives. He was heavily targeted by the alt-right since he supported Cruz and he still is on the fence about Trump (criticizes him fairly often). Also he is an Orthodox Jew.
    - 9y ago

vrsep 9y ago

Search doesn't work well: cannot find woman in area. Only political nonsense.

microcolonel 9y ago
Yeah, it unfortunately takes time to build a community. The first wave seems to be people who have been burned by mass demonetization and poor discoverability on YouTube. The next mass after that is their audiences. The next after that will probably be the next wave of censorship refugees. This will likely continue until there are enough people for it to be a viable general social network (or not).