[mcv]

Yeah, lack of public posts is a big problem with MeWe. I think they recently added it, but you need to pay for it?

What I would like to see is some general, decentralised standard in the style of email and usenet, where everybody has their own identity they can use to post and respond, and block content from trolls and spammers without them easily circumventing that block (well, that clearly doesn't work with email, but spam filters do a decent job).

[Pamar]

No, you do not to pay for anything but the problem is that "Public" (at least for now) just mean that "if another MeWe user (who isn't already a contact) visits your profile they will be able to see all your posts that you have marked as public".

This helps a bit when you are, for example, deciding if you want to invite them to join your group, or have received a request from them to connect or stuff like that: before that you had only the masthead pic and their nick to decide (as most people do not even bother to fill in their profile).

But [I did test it myself] when you try to copy the url of your MeWe profile or a link to a specific post of yours and open it in a different browser you will be asked to login to MeWe.

"Pages", as I said, despite being designed for special entities like fan clubs, newsagencies and so on, behave the same way: outside of MeWe you cannot access them. They are cheap though (like 3$/month) so my suggestion to MeWe was something like:

"Please allow me to be able to make Public posts available to non-MeWe members. I will be glad to pay for this a monthly fee in the ballpark of what you ask for Pages, and it would be ok if - in case I stop paying - all my Public post revert to the current behaviour (and become visible again outside in case I start paying again)".

Looked reasonable to me, and I understand they are looking for ways to monetize some of the services... except that at the moment you can pay for stuff like "an extra set of emoticons/avatars" or "Activate Night Mode"... :-/