I believe Weku is the best of the competitors. It's plan is to be a site that has audio and video completely built in, with a fully functioning search mechanism.
I think competition is a good thing but Weku is the only site I've seen so far that actually feels like real competition.
Of course these facts would call into question immediately ( like Dlive) how decentralized is Weku ?
I can't say for sure, but I can tell you it is one of the easiest sites to get started with. I made an account and was online there within a few minutes and I'm already rated 56. Quite a few people from this site are also over there. I have no idea what the token will be worth when it finally comes out, but earning is quite simple there.
It’s an important question because it will affect trust long term. If 56 reputation is easy to achieve for example what do s it mean to others?
The same reason why it feels difficult for me to use WEKU, if it were that easy, would it really be worth anything?
I'd say it's probably not easy for everyone but I do have a bit of experience from blogging on Steemit.
Perhaps it feels like a real competition because from what I heard it looks exactly like Steemit? I haven't been on it, and don't intend as have no interest on going in a platform that jusy copies the UI from someone else. If that's the mentality of the developers, then how do they view plagarism on the platform?