Some questions to your assumptions:
- It's running already, aka it's launched (just not massive official launch, kinda like a buggy for beta-testing soft-launched )
Here's a link but you only have like 1/4 chance of successfully installing it without some guidance (for now): https://www.ono.chat/ono/invite/?lang=en&pos=en#/catch/uid/100001926
if you want to successfully check it out, DM me in Discord for details: dj123#2863
It's running off the EOS technology there won't be total censorship (well it will have as much censorship as Steemit I suppose), it's code will be open source once it's stable, there is a form or republic kinda consensus voting, also representative that the citizens vote for to handle bad actors, all the rules are subject to referrendum or sorts ........to know more you can read the white paper.
The founder left China when she was 12 and brilliant by any measure, my observations is that her principles are more like Elon Musk and less like Jack Ma but she's strongly driven like both of them, and since she had her formative years in Western cultures...she probably thinks more like a westerner and less like an Asian. She came back to china as an adult to access capital and cheaper developer resources to build her companies, a string of success from 20-24 is scary impressive, but she's still down to earth and takes time to communicate to the ONO communities and her followers, she has higher social charm and skills than @ned (hair style not withstanding) and enough technical knowledge to attract and inspire and lead those with technical expertise in the blockchain world.
The drive behind the ONO project will continue to be very strong, I think this is great for Steem, ONO's success will legitimize Steem as a valid cypto uses case, and healthy competition will surely spur innovation in the Steem Universe.
thank you very much for that, i went to the site for an invite already but as these things go it can take months, i like how you compare her to Musk , if she can do without the american narcissism she might even be better hahah, good chance if she has chinese roots there. Ma might be a 1%er but he didnt get it for free either, problem with some people is the fact that loads of money seems to erase certain parts of memory lol.
I have been looking for alternatives, i should say "additives" to steemit because mostly any dapp you get runs on the same chain so whatever you post goes from and to the same wallets (nobody is ofcourse here for the money, we're all here for the content, blablaaaa, i think it goes hand in hand, its both a culture AND an economy, a veritable ecosystem, it comes with money so it would be hippocrite to say people here just ignore that (barring the already rich ofcourse)
i havent seen ned communicate much other than in videos posted by third parties but i hear there's some discord channel from aggroed where the gods of the pantheon like to hang out
not that im very interested, i try to stay away from politics because politics is filth, wether its social or business and you hit the nail on the head there, a lot of these upper class cryptonnaires have zero feeling or empathy with the real world below, its like they dont know what it is to not have millions in your account
i personally woultn run for witness even if i had the clout here, but i would seriously like to achieve dolphin level and sustainability, so any separate network offering the same system (with maybe better and more advanced options ) is always welcome
someone directed me to minds.com where i have an account too, but i haven succeeded in withdrawing their tokens yet ... i wouldnt even know where to sell them hahah
but the more the merrier, if not for competition then for more options, added bonus for me is getting in touch with people living in asia
where i feel my destination lies, for years now
silly thing to say maybe in 2018 but thats how it feels for years
lol, no need to register, it's ready use if you're ok with doing some beta testing while you earn some ONOT
iOS: https://fir.im/kjndTest
Android: https://fir.im/vuxc
for iOS enable the enterprise software to use it in General
International code: VQLS
Here's my discord community drop by and shout out for @dj123, I'll help you with some guidance