If you're a reddit 'refugee,' why did you leave?

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[–]Tiwaking 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Minds is really good! The problem with minds at the moment is:

Censorship - A lot of accounts have been marked as mature now. This isnt too big a problem as you just click on what you want to see and say 'yes', but it does mean they are shadow banned from the news feed.

News Feed - They have thankfully fixed most of this, but the problem with the news feed is it usually has a lot of boosted content, that is posts that people have paid to have greater visibility. Most of the time it is good, but sometimes you get a whole lot of crypto spam.

Boosed Content not working - Some users are finding that the boosted content they paid for is getting 0 engagement, which means no one is seeing their posts.

In summary: Minds is like Facebook (which I dont use) and an Image board, but it doesnt have any crippling censorship. Its a lot of fun. I use it for memes :p

I like this place because the layout and format is clean, fun, and easy to use.

Oh and there is no one here and I like being by myself.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting, thank you for the review. I remember thinking Minds was interesting because of the integrated crypto.

I like the layout here too. It feels more comfortable to use than what Reddit has become. If you do ever use Reddit, you can access the old formatting style, that's more similar to what we have here at Saidit, using "old.reddit.com" instead of "www .reddit.com".

[–]sproketboy 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm fine with marking accounts/pages "mature" or "nsfw" as long as they are not removed. The real problem in the end is shit parenting with putting kids in front of screens before they're teens. Much better to put them out in the dirt to play.

[–]Tiwaking 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The thing is you can mark posts as NSFW or channels as mature, thats cool.

But if your entire channel gets marked as mature then everything you post will be marked as mature, even if it isnt mature. This has affected a lot of meme channels and political channels. Worst hit are Political Meme Channels i.e. https://www.minds.com/kalnwi/

This has made a lot of the white supremacists/pro-nazi's leave. Also some conspiracy channels have been affected.