New Social Media Platform Dubbed The Peoples Site by AnonymousBy Claire Bernish Users will find the typical status updates, comments, and link-sharing as other social media, but Minds takes the governments eyes out of the equation by encrypting private messages and using open-source code that any programmer can check. The platform uses a reward system based on points to earn views for posts, so the more active you are, the more the network will promote your posts-without hindrance from advertisers and profit models. For every mobile vote, comment, remind, swipe upload you earn points which can be exchanged for views on posts of your choice. Its a new web paradigm that gives everyone a voice, explains the website. Minds.com founder Bill Ottman told Business Insider, Our stance is the users deserve the control of social media in every sense. As an answer Facebooks enigmatic algorithm that has contentiously manipulated users newsfeeds for yearsessentially strangling organic post reach, even for wildly popular pagesMinds has vowed its formula for boosting posts will be transparent and available. Instead of using inexplicable formulas that rely on Orwellian features like how much time a user lurks on a post, the new platform logically bases its system on user interaction. These features have been so appealing, the site had 60 million visitors before the official launch on Mondaythe majority of whom listed an interest in alternative media as their primary reason to be there. In fact, the Facebook page Anonymous Art of Revolutionwith a following of over one million usersboosted the Minds website when it announced a hackathon. According to the post: There have been many attempts to build alternatives to Facebook, but Minds.comwith its heavy emphasis on privacy and transparencyappears to be the most promising yet. Claire Bernish writes for theAntiMedia.org, where this article first appeared. Tune in! Anti-Media Radio airs Monday through Friday @ 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. Took me a couple paragraphs to say that 