Musing.io is a dapps a decentralized platform affiliated to steemit, just like any other dapps for example esteem, it's not an autonomous platform, it's only a dapp, so people on steemit can choose to be on musing when they use their steemconnect to login irrespective of their status, either whale or Minnow.
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