Consuming Minds

Your newsfeed is your Minds home. It includes boosted posts, your posts, and the posts of the channels you subscribe to. Sorted in reverse chronological order, the latest posts first. I spend most of my Minds time here.

Search/Discovery is like your newsfeed but it includes almost all of Minds. Another difference is filtering and algorithm types. I spend very little time here because I just don't have the time for discovery and search doesn't seem to work.

Your channel contains all your posts including reminds. This is probably the second place where I spend my Minds time. Mainly to verify what I've already posted.

Your groups contain the ones you've created and joined. It also includes a real-time "group chat" facility. The only group I've joined is Help & Support. I've found groups to be useless to me because I just don't have the time. My interests vary with time. And I just don't have much time to check the groups individually. And I don't want groups cluttering my newsfeed. Much less participate in the gatherings (I think that's what the real-time chat is called.)

Then there is messenger where one can "chat" with another user real-time. Again, I just don't have time for this feature and I very rarely use it.

I'm probably one of the very few users who go through the entire newsfeed every day. The reason why I say "few" is because other people just don't have the time (I'm retired so I have more time than others) and/or energy.

Maybe I'm using Minds all wrong. But it's my Safari browser Minds workflow. More on this and my observations later.

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