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RE: Opinions on Minds vs Steemit?
I played with Minds a while ago, but I got very little engagement from others. I know a few Steemit people cross-post there, but I don't know how it goes for them. Some of the top Minds people seem to do better than I did. I just don't have time to do multiple sites and I've built something here already.
I know Minds just updated their site, but I've not felt the need to go back. They did have some nice features, including private chat. The Steemit site still looks a bit old-school in comparison, but then we have alternatives like Busy.
I think it has potential. Need to play around with it for a bit, when I have some free time. I want to give it a fair shake.
@stevevc > "I just don't have time to do multiple sites"
I'm #newhere on SteemIt, and have been using Minds.com for a few months now. I agree with your assessment that posting on multiple sites is a nuisance, and I have been pestering the Minds staff to set up an #IFTTT service so that I can crosspost more easily between various social media sites. I see similarly that there is no IFTTT service available yet for SteemIt. However, one big advantage I see immediately of SteemIt over Minds is that I can link to individual replies here, where Minds limits us to only linking to the opening post of a thread.
I do find it rather ironic though that these "Facebook killer" sites like SteemIt and Minds mainly only provide automated social sharing to FB and Twitter. I see SteemIt also automates sharing to Reddit. Having an IFTTT service would provide an abstraction layer, allowing us to share (even bi-directionally) from/to SteemIt with any other online site which also has an IFTTT service. I think this needs to be considered by these new sites, and thought given to how to allow such automated cross-posting without gaming the crypto.
It's not too much work to copy posts across sites, but then you need to deal with responses. The thing is that I never had many on Minds. I've got enough going on here to keep me busy and it's fun