Minds.com as the alternative to facebook?
As a response to censorship practices of facebook, youtube and google, I recently started searching for alternatives.
The topic of censorship in my opinion is one of the big topics we, as the society, should discuss. Living in a democracy is often glorified as the most fair, the most logical and the most ethical way to organize the people, but in this age of mass media manipulation made possible by censorship, the democracy itself turned into the ruling of the ignorant.
The cool thing about the internet is the fact that you don't need a lot of money to become a journalist, your don't need to support the false narrative to be able to share what you consider to be important information and also, the option to do extensive research in the comfort of your home. Essentially what this means, is that anyone can be a reporter, and anyone can do the research on their own, and anyone can challenge each other, and offer alternatives in what essentially is a free market of ideas. No longer is your influence based of having the money to fund your airtime on tv programs, but it becomes based in the trust you build with your audience and on you information being the most correct, backed up my most evidence. The beauty of the interent is that anyone is free to question to challenge a given narrative and do their best to give the most convincing arguments.
The ever growing tendency of google, youtube and facebook to try and rig the free market of ideas on the internet by removing certain topic off their search engines and more recently by demonetizing independant news outlets, as you can imagine, made me very annoyed.
You cannot have progress in a society without having the knowledge of anything better even existing. That is when I started searching for alternatives hoping to make the transition and cut my support to censorship related companies. Minds.com popped up as a very interesting alternative in which content creators build their trust by earning points that may be used to extend their reach. Basically, If you are an active member, rated positively by a lager number of individuals, your chances of reaching an even bigger audience grows. Similar to the steemit platform. This principle I really like and I wanted to open up a topic to discuss it. Minds.com a relatively young platform still needs to attract more quality content creators to build up the overall quality of its content, but surely as time progresses, I believe it has the potential to work as a very quality way of spreading good ideas, art, music, and important unbiased information to the people.