#Minds is a Casino, and you are the slots in the slot machine.

Having cognitive dissonance symptoms to above title ?

Those icons are you voting up posts.

The boosted posts getting up votes is a form of gambling specially when those who see your posts are completely random people without an ire of interest in the topic of your posts;  so its sheer luck if those who see your posts are also interested in those topics, And then making money off that makes the viewers of those post "meer slots" of the slot machine in this gigantic gambling  Casino, disguised as a social network.