Minds is an open source social networking service, headquartered in New York City. Elements of the global hacktivist collective Anonymous showed initial support for Minds, based on its foundation of transparency and privacy.
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History
Minds was founded by Bill Ottman, John Ottman and Mark Harding in 2012, and launched to the public in June 2015.
The service is being developed by Minds Foundation, Inc.
On May 5, 2017 Minds was the fastest to raise over one million in Equity Crowdfunding
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Features
Native device support
Minds is supported on both desktop and mobile devices. An official mobile Minds application is available for iOS and Android.
Multimedia
Minds allows the sharing of photos and videos. Playback options for video include 360p and 720p using HTML5 video and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
Security
The Minds social network includes full end-to-end encryption and asymmetrically encrypted chat messaging with private passwords.
Rewards system
Minds rewards content and engagement (swipes, votes, referrals and comments) with points, which users can then spend towards "boosting" posts.
Users may also purchase points with PayPal and the Bitcoin cryptocurrency,and credit cards which are added to Minds' digital wallet.
Voting and swiping
With Minds, users can vote on content and other users using swipe gestures, similar to the app Tinder.
Geofiltering
Minds allows its users to discover people and brands with geofiltering for local and global networking.
Geofiltering is not available on the app platform.
Language Support
Minds allows the translation of posts into any language and user interface is available in English and Spanish.
Minds.org
Minds.org is a portal for community code development and documentation of the Minds distributed social networking stack which includes Apache Cassandra, Neo4j, Apache Cordova, AngularJS, PHP, Nginx and Elasticsearch.
Business model
Minds monetizes through its points-purchasing system and white-label services, which allow businesses to create their own social network based on the Minds platform.
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Minds on GitHub
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