Could we please as a community stitch together a list of hosters that don't censor or nudge users like most of the "big" platforms do right now ?

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    [–]ISaidWhatISaid 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

    Do not trust Minds.com - they hijacked my account and refuse to let me re-register

    Frustrated at the censorship on Wordpress, I decided to log into Minds.com and to start using my account there more actively. I had already registered with Minds.com months ago but had never wanted to use my account there until recently.

    I tried logging into my Minds.com using my alias and password but to my surprise I got this error:

    https://www.minds.com/help/question/d729f7c6-dde6-4cae-b72b-5c58ffcfe349 (BTW, this page doe snot appear to load if you try to visit it in stealthmode)

    Needless to say I immediately requested a password reset confirmation e-mail, and according to Minds.com one should've been sent to my e-mail address...

    ... only, this reset e-mail was never actually sent to me. I waited literally for hours and nothing arrived. I tried many times over and no reset e-mail was sent to me.

    I then tried to re-register at Minds.com under a new alias, but lo behold, Minds.com now refused to allow me to re-register under a new account. I literally couldn't even click on the button to register the new account.

    Again, I had never used minds.com for anything at all prior to this moment. I never posted anything whatsoever and I never read any posts there whatsoever. I have no idea why they have decided to hijack my account in such a deceptive manner. They won't even just let me access my account just to delete it in order to protest. Is this a way for them to boost their user base while denying users the actual service promised?

    Moral of the story: do not trust this Minds.com service that purports to be an alternative to other platforms. They will hijack your account for no reason and despite you not using it, lie about sending you a password reset when they refuse to grant you access, and refuse to allow you to re-register to complain or to just ask about what the hell is happening. I looked at their Help Desk page and there was no e-mail address there you can write to with questions. How typical.

    Also, Tim Pool if you're reading this, I only registered with Minds.com because you said they were trustworthy.

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

    The linked page was almost all blank - perhaps a Brave default. Your experience trying to find an answer sounds like mine with Discord.

    Here's an idea:

    We could create new accounts and trade accounts with passwords, then repassword them for ourselves - and perhaps organize all this in a limited invite-only private sub.

    I was deleted from Quora years ago and I think they blocked my IP from starting a new one. Around the new year I discovered they deleted my Discord account, which I might be able to start anew if I cared to - or I might also be blocked. I'm still unsure why I was blocked from either.

    [–]ISaidWhatISaid 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I was deleted from Quora years ago and I think they blocked my IP from starting a new one.

    Wasn't Quora part of Google? I can't help you with that because I don't even have a Google account. I had one about a decade ago and deleted it. Now Google demands that I give them my smartphone number in order to create a new account (just to log into Youtube/Gmail/The other Google services), which I am definitely not going to do because I don't want to be digitally dog-collared 24/7 to Google tracking my physical movements. I can plainly tell Google are logging every click (regardless of me making an account or not) from the kinds of recommends I am getting in the Youtube sidebar. I would like to keep my physical whereabouts to myself. I always hated smartphones anyways, I try to avoid using them as much as possible.