A lot of us here appreciate the work you are doing so Thank you! Yes, Minds is certainly confusing and it doesn't help that there is very little information out there explaining the features and how the reward system works. What is out there is severely outdated. So I had to just start using it, making mistakes along the way. I haven't figured out all of it yet but enough to get by.

It seems to be like it wants to be facebook, twitter and medium at the same time. It's really active too. I have 3 times the subscribers on Minds than I do followers on Steemit (but Steemit is still my favorite). If you want to post a notification or something not super elaborate like a tweet you can use the posting feature on the front page, but if you want to write a blog entry you have to go to blogs at the top then write a new blog. From there, blog entries didn't used to post on your channel so you used to have to write a new post and link the blog for it to show up. It was dumb, but they seemed to fix that so it does now. Then you can add what ever hashtags you want to link and it will go from there.

You also have direct messaging to people as well as a messenger like facebook. It might be another solution for you and you brother too, now thinking about it. If you get on there you can always test stuff out with me if you want :) Also what about Gab?