Minds.com Reviews

I’m new to Minds, but I do really enjoy the feel and concept of the platform. It’s the most free feeling platform I’ve used so far and that’s mainly because they aren’t banning people non stop for seemingly innocuous things. A lot of other platforms have turned into a digital high school, either your in or your out given the days trend or hot take. And if you’re out you’re really out. That’s horrifying, given how much more important and necessary these platforms have become in our world. People keep equating digital platforms to a town squares, I think that’s very accurate. In Minds I don’t worry about what others might think or even more so what the platform itself might think, I’m just myself without worry. All of us SHOULD feel that way inherently but sadly the online world is flooded with people watching every word and self censoring to appease the masses and the platform (consciously or subconsciously). It’s truly not human to act like that. If you want to try a more laid back and honest platform this, so far, seems to be the place.

Mindscom now does a flashing change of posts on the home newsfeed page when I open it (desktop version too). So annoying. Also, my feed is so busy and I have no way of muting certain users without unfollowing or blocking them. I cannot prioritize certain creators either. It’s so much overload that it’s practically unusable. I hope they end up fixing this (on many levels) as I adore the underlying concept. It has a lot going for it and an upscale user base (much less troll like behavior compared to a Twitter or Gab). I will keep checking back until this turns the corner. I’m a believer in this concept and it has some great bones.

Edit: finally had to delete Mindscom . I can no longer post anything (just get a refresh circle continually). Went to help page to comment on someone else’s post but it said my post had an error and could not be posted . Mindscom itself is almost unusable. You can’t see replies. Still no mute. Repeated posts. No way to prioritize. Desktop is definitely better but im usually on my phone. You’re killing a great idea. I’m now looking for a better free speech alternative. Too bad because the community is great. But Mindscom looks like it was made by my high schooler.

“Popular platforms” are just that…popular, no intelligent life to be found. That’s the end result and unfair to say but I don’t even see my best friends posts anymore. Just things that I’ll have an opinion on, something has happened there, where curators decide what you see. Interactions are now more important than relationships. Interact…mostly on things that upset you. Easy interaction is a win. It’s garbage, algorithm’s designed to dismiss things or friends you love because interaction w those posts is simple and happy, quick. “A fight and controversy gets 4% more interaction, pump that! = money. I hope everyone realizes there’s more and an uncurated platform is the future. Honest conversation/discussion and a platform that rewards friendships is available…it’s this platform.

Perfect place which brings back nostalgic feelings of old school social media, where people can talk freely (given a few rules), minds can debate each other, you can think for yourself, many posts from artists, photographers and funny memes. Super friendly and mature people. Everyone gets along well even with opposing ideas. However, google and apple, facebook and twitters henchmen have caused so much trouble with the creators of minds forcing them to remove commenting, groups, and many features from Mindscom to discourage new members. Access via browser for better experience and please support this amazing platform against these big tech bullies.

I enjoy minds because of it diversity in thought. People on the platform are not pandering to the social media gods they are speaking their ‘minds’ but are also trolling people to get a rise out of them and making offense jokes at times. I’ve seen many about how women can’t drive and I laugh at it and share it. You shouldn’t take everything seriously and especially don’t take anything to heart. Now they’ll probably be racists and sexists people on Mindscom like there is in the world but just ignore them everyone thinks they’re stupid. Just dislike their post and more on. But again this is a great app I wise there was more social media apps like this.

After a short time of being on Minds, I updated my profile and made a post on my timeline. Within an hour or so I received a message saying I’d been flagged by someone for spamming, so my account was shut down. But I hadn’t run any ads. And couldn’t log on to the platform to even inquire. Tried responding to the email, but that was a dead end. There seem to be no way to contact support or get any help. I’ve been on Facebook for years now without any issues, while I hear stories about others getting their accounts shut down. Minds touts that it is a free speech platform, yet they quickly shut down accounts without investigation or means for correction. They want to compete with Facebook, but whoever is behind it is asleep at the wheel big time. Minds is a joke platform!

Impressed with the sleek interface. The concept is great! There are a few kinks to work out which I’ll list below. Overall, If the developers can work out the issues, I believe Mindscom can be a game changer for social media.

Issues encountered so far: (mobile version)
-The letter i is glitchy for some reason. It wants to type a capitalized i in the middle of words
-Autocorrect is non existent so you have to pay close attention to what you are typing
-When editing a word too close to the left of the screen, it’s virtually impossible to select in front of it. The work around I use is putting the cursor a letter or 2 to the right and deleting to beginning to get it in the right spot

Update: I can’t figure out how to add hashtags past the original posting. This may be some setting but I’m not finding it. Still not giving up on Mindscom :) I love where Mindscom is headed the more I learn it!

I was excited to try Mindscom and support what they were made for but I was very disappointed in what I found. Had to manually scroll back 26 years to set my birthday. Couldn’t set a profile banner. Subscribe buttons barely work and when I went to make my first comment there was an error. Then I went to find some form of in app support and tried to reach out on the platform and error. Could be a good app and a better tool to help people share their minds and get a better understanding of others but instead it’s more of a pretty non functional app. Very frustrating I hope you guys fix it up soon so I can try again maybe a littler further down the road.

Minds is social media platform without draconian or unevenly applied censoring. It combines features from Twitter, FB & Instagram but is mostly geared to appeal to Twitter users. Unlike twitter, you can edit posts & there is no character limit, at least not a limit I’ve found yet.

Mindscom isn’t as reliable as the web portal however. Interface is very clunky & things often don’t work as they should. But If they can sort out issues with pics/gifs not posting & videos not playing (this happens on the website too), and improve the UI, Twitter will have serious competition.

It’s a little bit of getting used to, but the offer that Minds gives cannot be found on other more popular social networking apps. The idea of decentralized network (yes, it sounds like Pied Piper from “Silicon Valley” TV show) is great and it does seem like this is where the future of social networking starts. I don’t know for how long, but with fewer controls and restrictions on the users, this company has carved the true meaning of freedom of speech. Start trying out Mindscom, and have your voice be heard globally!

I would give three stars to getting started, but five stars to Mindscom as a whole. It’s very confusing when you just hop on with zero experience and the (how to use minds) links don’t work. There’s some disconnect between the link and the website. But once you learn it’s as easy as riding a bike. Just make sure you understand that there’s fake money you can spend and real money you can spend, so don’t give your kids Mindscom to play with.

So it's a great platform let me say that out of the gate. The problem lies with the natives, because this is where disenfranchised banned sensored outcast of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have landed its populus is mostly Racist outcast feeling stifled because they can't spew carefully designed messages of hate on other platforms.

The other very small 10% is people actually interested in security and straightforwardness

You need to understand that due the ”Free Speech” nature of the platform the owner will never gentrify the neighborhood.

Mindscom works well, no complaints on its features, except for the part where Apple decided to be a hypocrite and FORBID ITS USERS FROM SEEING NSFW POSTS ON Mindscom!!! I could see the exact same content if it were on the Twitter app! Same applies for the Discord app! What gives, Apple Co?!? If it weren’t for that infuriating feature that shouldn’t exist (I understand it isn’t your fault, Minds.), I’d rate Mindscom higher. For that matter, Mindscom having such amazing things going for it, notwithstanding the stupid and hypocritical nsfw blocking feature, is why I give Mindscom its current rating and not any lower.

We need social media that truly benefits us and allows for true organic growth, fit perfectly alongside paid growth.

I’m excited to be on Minds and I can’t wait til it grows to something as big as our current social media platforms.

We need to take our content and our privacy back, and if we give it up we need to be paid for it. Thats where the world is headed and Minds is opening the door for us.

Best social media where you wont get banned for your ideas and you’re free to express yourself and what you do to other minds. Its not perfect and has its bugs here and there but it can only go up. Plus, you get paid to use it..im serious. If they keep protecting free speech (unlike other sites i know) it will become the biggest social media if not one of the biggest in the world..seriously. I believe in it.

Needs a lot of work. Specifically making the subscribe button bigger and easier to find/activate. It takes five minutes for it to work and actually register you hitting it. Loading times are slower than usual. The notifications you get are all lumped together and hard to distinguish. If you get 30 you have to look through them all one by one just to see if someone replied to you or liked the comment. There should be some colors or another way to distinguish points gained from replies, likes, etc.

Day 1 and pretty interesting. Looks like people are tired of being shutdown on other social media platforms and are moving in. It’s ridiculous how far social media goes to shut down some interesting stories that come out because they involve Joe Biden and his son’s corruption. I think the general public should be free to talk about it and everyone should know the truth.

Many complain about the learning curve and it is steep but if you take the time to learn it it does work nicely. Developer please improve on the interface especially iOS version because it needs user friendly cleanups and maybe a install how to use guide that one can skip if they want. Just something that explains how minds works especially since many use Facebook or twitter.

All around useful app. Search function needs more refinement across all main tabs to make it easier to find other users and pages by name rather than handle. The subscribe button could be more prominent as well.

Mindscom itself is a little sluggish so I’ve opted to use the iOS mobile website which overall is a much better UX/UI.

Gorgeous and useful app. I have no idea who ultimately controls this platform but I’m sure Apple will ban them or google once enough non (THEY) people are allowed to share there opinions. Obviously there’s a war of information and Apple is not on the team of sharing information freely so I expect Mindscom to be short lived sadly. But their web app is tremendous either way. A true TWITTER KILLER

Great alternative to Fb. Creator I currently trust and an app that’s pretty proficient. I like the privacy aspect of it and not having to use my real name. The extra password to message, stronger encryption programming, free speech aspect, and how quickly I am receiving Followers are all good signs that this site is legit. Wish more artist were on this page though. Like to see some of my favorite bands join. Also like to see more of my American friends. Seems to be more popular among areas of Asia prob do to its open content. Def will take off in the backpacking circuit in hostels around the world

Text entry is not compatible with auto correct or auto guess about what you’re typing which means every single word had to be typed & corrected including any form of punctuation which makes it extremely difficult to actually write anything using Mindscom , even for short sentences. The web version seems much more useful at this point right now. Like I say, Mindscom is a good start. Expecting all these things to eventually get worked out.

Date of writing: 4/4/18

While I love using minds as my preferred social media, there is a problem that the new app has while operating on my IPhone S6 plus. When I open Mindscom , it will go to my subscription feed as it normally does, but after a few seconds of being on, Mindscom “White screens” and nothing is displayed or functions, almost as if it had crashed. I’ve waited for the feed to return to normal, however after 5 minuets of waiting nothing changes for me.

I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling Mindscom along with restarting my phone many times but nothing seems to help remedy the problem either.

I hope that this is just an incident isolated to me because I would hate for others to have to have a bad user experience.

I love using minds, but this is a serious problem with the mobile app that needs to be addressed quickly.

I prefer this "social" media platform over all others that's why the 5 stars stays, but sadly Mindscom no longer works on my iPhone 5. I can access it on the internet on the phone, but Mindscom just opens then shuts down. If you can fix I'd appreciate it. I'll try again in 30 days.

It's a new app so I gave it some forgiveness. The concept is great, being able to voice your ideas and not be bashed down immediately by uneducated adults and teens unwilling to have another point of view. Lots of glitches with profile editing and posting. If these get fixed it will be a groundbreaking app.

Mindscom works great for posting, though rather laggy compared to other social media apps. Interesting “scoring” system with the views you gain, even though it’s nothing more than a “fun” tally system than an actual indicator of views. Biggest problem I ran into so far is the inability to edit your profile. It just keeps trying to pull up the keyboard and then going away. I even have to reload the screen/page just to back out to the news feed.

Minds is going to be continue to be a game changer as it grows. Decentralized ‘DAPPS’ that embody the best of social networks, without all the bad elements Facebook has now shown to the public to be true. The Ottman founding family are fully committed & true advocates for the people. I love their approach and know they will continue to innovate their network.