TRYING OUT WIMKIN - https://sift666.blogspot.com/2025/08/trying-out-wimkin.html
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Yesterday I got an email from a free speech social media platform called Wimkin. I had no idea what it was but clearly I had signed up for an account at some point because they had my email. So I logged in and checked it out.
It turns out I had last looked at Wimkin in September 2020, so nearly five years ago. I set up an account, but never posted anything or made any friends. At that point the deep state was just starting the covidhoax, and the posting I was doing about germ theory and the vaccine scam was getting me a lot of account suspensions on Facebook.
So in 2020 I was certainly looking for uncensored social media alternatives, but Wimkin was very new, and there wasn't much content on there. I put it in the check back later basket and promptly forgot all about it.
It was interesting to revisit the platform in 2025. It works pretty well, with a well designed website, and it's probably most similar to Facebook of all the alternative platforms. It is pretty much uncensored, apart from pornography, nudity, and violence, which is fair enough.
But it still seems very small compared to Facebook, with a limited amount of content. Watching the entire feed (rather than just my friends posts, as on FB), if someone rapidly does half a dozen posts in a row, they will all come up at once because new posts are being added that slowly.
On Facebook, just the posts from my own friends (about 1300) and the groups I follow (about 200) provide a vastly larger flow of new content. I would never try to view all the posts on Facebook even if that was possible, because there would be thousands of posts every minute.
And the other issue is that almost all the content on Wimkin is American, with a particular focus on American politics. Not being an American, for me this is a big drawback. My Facebook feed is global, with a about half the content being from New Zealand, so is of much more interest to me. But I gather Facebook was very much American only for the first few years, so this could well change over time if Wimkin takes off.
It also has a lot of ads for controlled news sites like Fox News, and worship of Donald Trump, with seemingly very little understanding of "play both sides".
Something not many people seem to be aware of is that as of 2025 Facebook has backed right off all it's censorship - it's bordering on anything goes at this point. To demonstrate this I've been doing an experiment on one of my alt accounts to show just how much controversial content we can now get away with posting on Facebook.
https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/facebook-uncensored.html
So I've revisited Wimkin, done half a dozen quick posts and found a dozen new friends. I have an account set up, and if Facebook ever returns to being heavily censored, Wimkin could be my backup plan. But at this point I'll put it on hold again for now.
Thanks to everyone involved with Wimkin for yesterday's entertainment!
I'm a NEWB - Being new to Wimkin I don't have many friends. To set the ball rolling I'm just sending friend requests to everyone I encounter. I have a blog at www.sift.co.nz if you want to check I'm n... View MoreI'm a NEWB - Being new to Wimkin I don't have many friends. To set the ball rolling I'm just sending friend requests to everyone I encounter. I have a blog at www.sift.co.nz if you want to check I'm not a libtard or an AI account. Something I'm wondering - can I set my feed to chronological on desktop?
Skateboardfahrer - By 1942 Adolf Hitler had established himself as one of the top pro riders in the burgeoning German urban freestyle scene. He was described in Skateboarder magazine (Deutsche Edition... View MoreSkateboardfahrer - By 1942 Adolf Hitler had established himself as one of the top pro riders in the burgeoning German urban freestyle scene. He was described in Skateboarder magazine (Deutsche Edition) as "the most shredding dude over a 12-set in Berlin". Tony Hawk would later list him as one his biggest skating inspirations.
Testing out WIMKIN for the first time with a random image upload
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