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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Social network service |
| Headquarters | Wilton, Connecticut |
| Key people | Bill Ottman, Founder & CEO John Ottman, Co-Founder & Chairman Mark Harding, Co-Founder & CTO |
| Industry | Internet |
| Employees | 11-50 |
| URL | www |
| Registration | Required to post, follow, or be followed; Anonymous registration allowed |
| Users | 2+ million active (September 2017) |
| Launched | 2015 |
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.
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
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
- Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking
- Data portability
- List of social networking websites
- Timeline of social media
References
- "About". www.minds.com. 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - "This Social Network You've Never Heard Of Has Nearly 1 Million Users, Its CEO Says". Huffington Post. June 29, 2015.
- "Minds.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- Guthrie Weissman, Cale (2015-06-15). "Anonymous is supporting a new privacy-focused social network that takes aim at Facebook's shady practices". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - Griffin, Andrew. "Super-private social network launched to take on Facebook with support of Anonymous", The Independent, UK, 17 June 2015. Retrieved on 10 July 2015.
- Ian Crossland (9 November 2012). "Minds.com – Free & Open Source Social Evolution" – via YouTube.
- "New encrypted social network ‘Minds’ aims to rival Facebook", The Independent, Russia, 17 June 2015. Retrieved on 10 July 2015.
- "Minds". www.crunchbase.com. 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - Ottman, Bill (2017-05-31). "Thank you! Minds broke the regulation crowdfunding record for fastest to raise $1 million!". wefunder.com. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - "Anonymous backs encrypted social networks", Wired, UK, 16 June 2015. Retrieved on 10 July 2015.
- "Anonymous backs encrypted social networks", International Business Times, New York City, 15 June 2015. Retrieved on 10 July 2015.
- "A social network called Minds has an answer to Facebook’s strangling of organic posts", VentureBeat, San Francisco, 15 June 2015. Retrieved on 10 July 2015.