Yeah, I am on minds as well. Honestly I use that site as a way to boost promote some of my work for free. So every time I log in there I have around 100 free points or whatever and I use that to gain 100 free views by boost promoting my stuff. However, I noticed that if say 100 people see your post on minds, only maybe 5-10 of those will actually click or read the content, so, it does help raise views but not in any meaningful way.
As for posting content, minds does allow for you to post videos especially ones that YouTube calls "copyright" even though it isn't and it's fair use. So if you don't care to monetize your video, you can post it to minds and not worry about it getting blocked for censorship. However minds has no incentives, other than reaching people with information.
Steemit with the rewards, actual currency makes people want to flock here for the cash, and keeps them coming back and keeps them engaged.