Yesterday I finally got the Akasha app running (install glibcxx-something.3-4). Akasha is sort of a Ethereum version of Steemit with a lot of technical differences. For the end user the most important is probably that it does not run is a browser, but in an app.
The interface is actually quite good - I like that you can design your own pages - it would be a grand thing for me if I could have groups of profiles I followed, like for example the comic-community. As it is now Everything is just grouped into one big soup.
The writing tools are less flexible (as far as I can see at least). I really like sites where you can format in Markdown, making a personalised and fine looking post. Akasha has for the time being a modern text tool that does what it is supposed to do, but not much flexibility.
I am trying to understand wow things work under the hood (I don't even know if this is working tokens or just test-tokens) and I am trying to understand the strange cycle between mana -> essense -> Aeth, but I did not quite grasp Steemit's SBD, Steem and vests right away either so I suppose that is just a question of time.
I did try the cumbersome Alpha and the team behind Akasha has done a great job improving and rewriting - I do think this could be a competitor to Steemit in time. Question is how many social media platforms I can cope with at one time.
