It is like a cross between a fb and Steemit...On your profile page you can create blogs (they have a markdown setup), and you can directly upload video, you can upload photos into posts...you can create groups, and you can add links into posts or blogs. You can link youtube video (not sure how Dtube would work because I am not a video person)...you can link pretty much whatever you want, they are open to most everything one might want to post (so long as it is legal)
The Minds PM is also encrypted, not even they can see it...
Right now they are in Beta test mode for their tokens with MetaMask. It will all be ETH based, so transferring to ETH will be very simple, or from ETH to Minds tokens.
They are NOT using a whale system though...there are set amounts of points you earn when someone likes, shares, comments on your posts...then the pool is split once a day based on points earned, so all have an equal chance to earn with good content.
Each token is worth 1000 views, if you choose to boost a post using tokens...and you can wire tokens to other minds users through the platform.
So far I like it alot. There is an off grid/survivalist group...and GeordiePrepper started a prepper's group...but there are no Homesteading groups yet. There are horticulture, permaculture and climate change groups though. It is still fairly new, so I am sure it will fill out soon.