Welcome, friends. This is James Corbett of Corporate Report.com. Continuing our series on social media

alternatives. And this week, we're going to look at a social media alternative that's existed

quite a bit longer than a lot of the new ones that are popping up online these days.

It's minds.com.

And today we're talking to the founder of minds.com, Bill, thanks for joining us on the program today.

Hey, thanks for having me.

All right.

Well, let's get down to brass tacks.

What is minds.com and why should people join?

So, Mines is an open source social networking platform where you earn crypto for your contributions

to the network.

And we're encrypted, free software, we sort of care about internet freedom on a variety of different levels and are

really just trying to reward people for their energy online.

I mean, it seems like we deserve that these days.

It certainly does.

And internet freedom, online privacy, a lot of these issues are why I'm prompted to be doing this series in the first

place and why I think a lot of people are interested in escaping the Facebook, Twitter,

Google, YouTube matrix of control.

So let's talk about how Mines can help people do that.

As I say, I believe that Mines was founded in 2014 and then launched in 2015.

Can you tell us a little bit about that and what

prompted you to do that way back when when few people were talking about these issues?

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