One Year On: A Review of Minds.com

One Year On: A Review of Minds.com

The audio on my videos is weird since I moved my recording area around, so I'll say what I was going to say in the video here.

I have a lot to praise about minds.com, but I have a fair bit to criticise. Let's start with the praises.

I love mind.com because it essentially works just like an alternative reality Facebook, which instead chose to to promote the diversity of ideas, the discussion and freedom of speech. Its points system makes everything a lot easier, making it especially easy to reach an active and interactive audience.

The site is just great. And I say just great because there are a number of issues related to the site. For a start, I don't think you get anywhere near enough points. The 50 points per hour is too low.

On top of that, five or six people have shared rather, yes brutal content on this site, criticising using slurs, etc. and posting racist content as a test as to whether or not their posts would be removed, insulting all races within singular posts dedicated to each race. Only criticism of black people was removed.

This is exactly why people left Candid. I don't want to see people leave this site because of perceived bias. Leave the posts up and let the community rip the poster a new one.

My second criticism is a criticism of you, the user of the site, and I suppose myself by extension. There are a number of people who post aggressive content that contributes nothing to the discussion, that creates nothing but division, and there are far too many people posting extremist content on the site.

Meanwhile content such as artistic content, tips and advice, etc. don't make it to the top. This is a shame, because there are many aspiring young artists who don't want to be involved in the discourse.

Within a discussion with a friend of mine, I advocated for the opposite of this opinion, running the idea to its logical end, playing with the idea and using it. The result of this was the conclusion that politics should be able to be disabled or turned off more easily in settings. The practicality of such a system is a discussion for another post.

Over all I rate this site a 8/10: Some things to improve on, some things to fix and some things to learn from, with a greater need for freedom of speech to be an absolute on the site, with the only limitation being if said speech violates the law.

This site is great, and has the potential to be greater.

For those interested, I rate Facebook a 4/10.

Thanks for listening.