Fakebook Exodus: Is Minds.com a Contender?
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6 years ago in #censorship by scottermonkey (61)
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I actually had a job offer for minds.com a long time ago and vaguely know the CEO. It was actually me who introduced the idea of crypt mixing with social media to him I think when I got excited about Steem. I haven't used their crypto token system much - but I'll take another look.
I still have concerns about Minds and MeWe. Yes they are accessible, moreso than Steemit, and I enjoy using both. However, if the recent FB and Google+ debacles have anything to teach us it's that centralised platforms cannot be trusted. Both Minds and MeWe are big on promises about privacy (so was WhatsApp), yet both have areas of vagueness within the terms of service. Although Minds code is open source, neither is a truly distributed platform.
While I have noticed a large group of my contacts from the G+ liberty forums moving to MeWe which is good in that I will be able to keep in contact, the lack of concern about the implications of investing in a new closed-source centralised platform is somewhat disheartening.
It will be interesting times for social networking as we evaluate new business models, but for me Steemit still holds the crown for the essentials of what a social platform needs to be considered secure, at least until something better comes along.
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