This shtick would be far more compelling if the homicide squad ever took a day off in any major urban center that didn't sink without a trace into a vast ocean, 7000 years ago.
The platform means that, just like mainstream media, it's the networks that pay which can spread their message, while the rest of the content is soloed in such a way that even search doesn't help. Google, nor any other engine, indexes the content because of navigation sabotage.
What do expect from someone who worked at VOA...hardly objective and free content.
Who the fuck is this guy?! And don't answer because I don't give a shit. Jesus people, tech news is like every other news - making stupid people famous - just like Kim Kardashian.
You talk as if blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. That's absurd.
Blockchain is a solution for a very limited set of problems, that's been jury rigged into anything to try to make a quick buck from clueless investors.
Almost all of the upvoted questions seem to be canned questions. One, maybe 2 sentences with no replies. In most Slashdot Q&As(including this one if you look at the questions posted by logged in users) the truly insightful questions tend to generate multiple child/grandchild responses and tend to be more in depth or detailed.
I read the interview and looked at the web site, and it's too damn complicated. It won't work. It's kind of silly, in fact. Micro credits, crytpo magic money, tokens, votes, etc. Seems like a real mess.
I don't know about that. I read about what they planned and didn't feel like looking into it further. That's probably the real issue, which is that people aren't going to be bothered unless there is some obvious benefit to them. Unless tons of people you know are already using minds.com (and I guarantee almost nobody has even heard of it), then you won't find the time to figure out how all this works.
Actually I felt the website was absurdly simpleminded considering what they claim they want to do. However, I also felt disappointed that my question about the dimensionality of reputations was not selected, presumably because it considered too many complexities...
Actually, I don't remember exactly how I worded the question, but in terms of your [DogDude's] concern about simplicity, my suggestion was that the basic rating of positive or negative should be easy, but it would only act as a weighting factor to
Navigating to the Bill of Rights paged mentioned in TFS leads to an essentially empty page. If I can't see my rights without registering, that's a nope. Maybe it's just a broken page? Not very confidence inspiring.
This is garbage out of the gate because he who is willing to spend the most dollars wins the eyes and ears of the users. Crapola Capitalism at its latest.
We Will Never Sell-out or Compromise Our Principles. That Would Be Like Murder
I'm sorry, but CEOs of social media companies have zero credibility for claims like this.
I'm afraid I'm not really interested in his answers or reading through the huge list of text to figure out what this is or why I care -- it's social media, I simply don't give a damn.
Given I haven't read anything but literally just this article on Minds... but I have no idea what crypto has to do with this website. I get it may be used to make a near permanent decentralized record of things but it sounds like that may not be that permanent given the answer above? And the other half of crypto I don't understand is the value of the tokens/points/karma or whatever it might be. Tell me if I'm way off, but upvotes/shares/etc will earn crypto? You then use that crypto to buy more sharing o
How much money will it take for you to murder someone?
While a business is new, it is often hard for the owner to think of selling their company. However what happens is overtime, it becomes a burden on their life and they will want to sell it. They are the CEO's who startup the company. Then they are the CEO who will keep the company running. They are really two different types of skill sets needed. Startups need high energy CEO's who can get their hands dirty and push towards growth, once they reach a pa
Question by anonymous reader: What coins/tokens does Minds use? Does Minds.com use its own token? If so what is the name of it? Bill: Yes, the Minds token is an ERC-20.
...Yeah bullshit. You'll sell out and compromise on the promise of increasing your own personal wealth and power, just like every other human who ever uttered the words "we will never sell out or compromise our principles."
Money, power, and mutually assured destruction are the only things that motivate you diseased creatures.
I decided to look at their web site and immediately closed the tab. When did having full-screen background animation become an accepted practice? I've seen a couple of other web sites (paypal and one of my utility providers) do that and while it might display OK on a high-end 8-core system with a high-end graphics card, my few-years-old home system comes to a crawl with crap like that. So much so that it's so agonizing attempting to log into it (the utility provider one) that I don't even do that to pay
I decided to look at their web site and immediately closed the tab. When did having full-screen background animation become an accepted practice? I've seen a couple of other web sites (paypal and one of my utility providers) do that and while it might display OK on a high-end 8-core system with a high-end graphics card, my few-years-old home system comes to a crawl with crap like that. So much so that it's so agonizing attempting to log into it (the utility provider one) that I don't even do that to pay my bill anymore -- I've reverted back to sending my payment via USPS. It's just annoying that web site designers appear to assume that everyone has a high-end system that is less than six months old, or that everyone is viewing their web site on high-end phone.
So no Minds for me.
You should consider blocking elements of sites with ublock (or whatever). I even block stupid background pictures on our stuff at work. The fact that they spent time creating huge backgrounds and animations that slow things down or just annoy me is their problem, not mine anymore. You know how amazon.com likes to make you wait to actually do anything while it plays some fucking video banner of bullshit on their crappy streaming network, when all you really wanted to do is throw something in your cart? Block
We will never sell-out our and compromise our principles.
What he really means: Deleting them, or replacing them with profit-driven bonuses, is totally acceptable.
When society rewards wealth and power, it's impossible to protect the common good.
Corporate taxation is more than the indirect payment from the biggest consumer of government services (because they have the most), it's an effort to protect the common good. The US model of winner-takes-all capitalism means politicians now deliberately abandon that effort.
We will never sell-out our and compromise our principles. It would be like murder.
Failing to post to social media is not like murder. But more importantly, one could reasonably read this as being true no matter what happens. One merely has to understand that whatever the organization does, no matter how contradictory today's choices are given yesterday's statements of uncompromising principles, the organization always acts in line with their current principles.
This was probably one of the best upvoted questions, yet Bill failed to address it:
I know part of the typical business model of social media is selling metadata, have you done away with this because of moving to a crypto-based model or do you use that data for selling as well?
Also, if you do sell that data, what is your data retention policy after a user chooses to leave the platform?
is any of their pledge not to be like murders put into writing, or is it just vague reassurances? if i signed up for this whatever-it-is, also-ran, no-one-ever-heard-of social whatever, would i have, in writing, a legal document saying what they would and would not do with my personal data?
doth protest muchly, for the time being (Score:3)
This shtick would be far more compelling if the homicide squad ever took a day off in any major urban center that didn't sink without a trace into a vast ocean, 7000 years ago.
top-10-largest-cities-no-murders/ (Score:0)
1. Fremont, CA (Population: 235,881)
2. Vancouver, WA (Population: 174,912)
3. Elk Grove, CA (Population: 169,742)
4. Frisco, TX (Population: 162,917)
5. Naperville, IL (Population: 148,070)
6. Bellevue, WA (Population: 142,238)
7. Roseville, CA (Population: 132,566)
8. Thousand Oaks, CA (Population: 129,853)
9. Norman, OK (Population: 122,143)
10. Round Rock, TX (Population: 119,308)
Some anti-CA anti-border rhetoric falling apart seeing those cities there...
https://www.areavibes.com/library/top-10-largest-cities-no
Re: doth protest muchly, for the time being (Score:0)
And a hare-brained idea that was
Misleading (Score:0)
The platform means that, just like mainstream media, it's the networks that pay which can spread their message, while the rest of the content is soloed in such a way that even search doesn't help. Google, nor any other engine, indexes the content because of navigation sabotage.
What do expect from someone who worked at VOA...hardly objective and free content.
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> soloed
You total mong.
We've established what you are (Score:-1)
What we're doing now is haggling over the price.
OH My God! (Score:-1)
I'm glad to hear it!
Who the fuck is this guy?! And don't answer because I don't give a shit. Jesus people, tech news is like every other news - making stupid people famous - just like Kim Kardashian.
Censored platform... (Score:0)
It's just built into the fabric of the design to mask that it censors content.
Humanity has a long, long history (Score:2, Informative)
So yeah, you're words are kinda hollow. Bordering on silly really.
Re: (Score:-1)
Murder Kendall for free - nazi problem solved.
But it uses blockchain (Score:5, Funny)
It must be good because it uses blockchain, although it's not at all clear why that matters to a social network.
Except blockchain was last year; he needs to figure out how it can use AI this year.
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You talk as if blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. That's absurd.
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You talk as if blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. That's absurd.
Blockchain is a solution for a very limited set of problems, that's been jury rigged into anything to try to make a quick buck from clueless investors.
Re: But it uses blockchain (Score:0)
I use my cuecat scanner to scan the blockchain to order groceries from the cloud!
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You talk as if blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. That's absurd.
You talk as if you didn't realize blockchain has become a buzzword for marketing people.
Did we really ask them? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Absurdly complicated (Score:5, Insightful)
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Doesn't seem very complicated actually
I don't know about that. I read about what they planned and didn't feel like looking into it further. That's probably the real issue, which is that people aren't going to be bothered unless there is some obvious benefit to them.
Unless tons of people you know are already using minds.com (and I guarantee almost nobody has even heard of it), then you won't find the time to figure out how all this works.
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Actually I felt the website was absurdly simpleminded considering what they claim they want to do. However, I also felt disappointed that my question about the dimensionality of reputations was not selected, presumably because it considered too many complexities...
Actually, I don't remember exactly how I worded the question, but in terms of your [DogDude's] concern about simplicity, my suggestion was that the basic rating of positive or negative should be easy, but it would only act as a weighting factor to
Bill of Missing Rights? (Score:2)
Navigating to the Bill of Rights paged mentioned in TFS leads to an essentially empty page. If I can't see my rights without registering, that's a nope. Maybe it's just a broken page? Not very confidence inspiring.
Pay to Win Social Networking (Score:2)
This is garbage out of the gate because he who is willing to spend the most dollars wins the eyes and ears of the users. Crapola Capitalism at its latest.
Re: Pay to Win Social Networking (Score:0)
How is that different than paid adverts and search prominence?
People get murdered for shoes (Score:0)
Murder is not that big of a "deterrent" for not selling out.
Sure ... we believe you ... (Score:0)
I'm sorry, but CEOs of social media companies have zero credibility for claims like this.
I'm afraid I'm not really interested in his answers or reading through the huge list of text to figure out what this is or why I care -- it's social media, I simply don't give a damn.
Hopefully we've reached peak social media.
Who? (Score:0)
n/t
Crypto Part is Confusing (Score:2)
What about bankruptcy? (Score:1)
Instead, they'll probably be forced to sell the company's assets after bankruptcy, and the buyer will compromise those principles!
Followup question. (Score:2)
How much money will it take for you to murder someone?
While a business is new, it is often hard for the owner to think of selling their company. However what happens is overtime, it becomes a burden on their life and they will want to sell it.
They are the CEO's who startup the company. Then they are the CEO who will keep the company running. They are really two different types of skill sets needed. Startups need high energy CEO's who can get their hands dirty and push towards growth, once they reach a pa
Tokens (Score:0)
Great, another shit ethereum token. Fuck them.
Meta goal achieved (Score:2)
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International signups are borked (Score:0)
Doesn't seem to be able to send the verification code to a New Zealand phone number.
Is this good or bad? (Score:3)
We Will Never Sell-out or Compromise Our Principles.
Kinda depends on what your principles are as to whether this is a good or bad thing for the rest of us.
We will never (Score:0)
...Yeah bullshit. You'll sell out and compromise on the promise of increasing your own personal wealth and power, just like every other human who ever uttered the words "we will never sell out or compromise our principles."
Money, power, and mutually assured destruction are the only things that motivate you diseased creatures.
Off topic... (Score:2, Interesting)
I decided to look at their web site and immediately closed the tab. When did having full-screen background animation become an accepted practice? I've seen a couple of other web sites (paypal and one of my utility providers) do that and while it might display OK on a high-end 8-core system with a high-end graphics card, my few-years-old home system comes to a crawl with crap like that. So much so that it's so agonizing attempting to log into it (the utility provider one) that I don't even do that to pay
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I decided to look at their web site and immediately closed the tab. When did having full-screen background animation become an accepted practice? I've seen a couple of other web sites (paypal and one of my utility providers) do that and while it might display OK on a high-end 8-core system with a high-end graphics card, my few-years-old home system comes to a crawl with crap like that. So much so that it's so agonizing attempting to log into it (the utility provider one) that I don't even do that to pay my bill anymore -- I've reverted back to sending my payment via USPS. It's just annoying that web site designers appear to assume that everyone has a high-end system that is less than six months old, or that everyone is viewing their web site on high-end phone.
So no Minds for me.
You should consider blocking elements of sites with ublock (or whatever). I even block stupid background pictures on our stuff at work. The fact that they spent time creating huge backgrounds and animations that slow things down or just annoy me is their problem, not mine anymore.
You know how amazon.com likes to make you wait to actually do anything while it plays some fucking video banner of bullshit on their crappy streaming network, when all you really wanted to do is throw something in your cart? Block
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minds.com full screen animation runs fine on my 2012 macbook pro.
What he really means (Score:0)
We will never sell-out our and compromise our principles.
What he really means: Deleting them, or replacing them with profit-driven bonuses, is totally acceptable.
When society rewards wealth and power, it's impossible to protect the common good.
Corporate taxation is more than the indirect payment from the biggest consumer of government services (because they have the most), it's an effort to protect the common good. The US model of winner-takes-all capitalism means politicians now deliberately abandon that effort.
SMS never comes (Score:1)
Where do I complain about the fact that when I try to confirm my phone number, the SMS never arrives? As a result, I can't receive the tokens.
Changing principles make for bad outcomes (Score:2)
Failing to post to social media is not like murder. But more importantly, one could reasonably read this as being true no matter what happens. One merely has to understand that whatever the organization does, no matter how contradictory today's choices are given yesterday's statements of uncompromising principles, the organization always acts in line with their current principles.
Consider that organization representatives some
Moving past email (Score:0)
Why do privacy-centric sites still rely on email addresses for registration? That seems antithetical to the whole premise.
"crypto" (Score:1)
The battle might be lost, but I hit Ctrl+W right after "Get paid in *crypto*".
The questions that were avoided speak the loudest. (Score:0)
This was probably one of the best upvoted questions, yet Bill failed to address it:
I know part of the typical business model of social media is selling metadata, have you done away with this because of moving to a crypto-based model or do you use that data for selling as well?
Also, if you do sell that data, what is your data retention policy after a user chooses to leave the platform?
https://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13413840&cid=58130120
Murder For Hire (Score:0)
Murder for hire says that he WILL sell out and compromise his principles. It's just a matter of price. His sell price hasn't been reached. YET.
did they put anything in writing? (Score:0)
is any of their pledge not to be like murders put into writing, or is it just vague reassurances? if i signed up for this whatever-it-is, also-ran, no-one-ever-heard-of social whatever, would i have, in writing, a legal document saying what they would and would not do with my personal data?
Facebook's mistake (Score:0)
Was to think that we were going to stay around to be insulted and shadow-banned.