When I started on Steemit there was a lot of talk about other projects working with the same idea. Akasha, Yours, and Synereo - and Later Sola.

These last days I have been trying some of them out, so here is a fast overview of my experiences

Akasha

I was one of the people who participated in the alpha test, and at that time I did not give it many chances. The interface was cumbersome and it was all happening in a rather slow app that had to chew through the whole Ethereum blockchain, or so it felt like. The beta that was just released and it is much better - I think it could become quite functional as a lighter social media - If Steemit is like Medium Akasha might be a bit like Facebook. There is still a lot of things that needs to be done and it is my impression that the team behind are working hard on making the ends meet and being responsive to the users.

All in all I am quite positive about this project.

Yours.org

I wrote a post about the Yours network yesterday and since then there have been no response to my post at all. Yours.org is mainly a Bitcoin cash wallet that can operate with other Yours.org wallets without a fee. Actually the same thing as Steemit but with no inflation (you have to bring the money to reward others). As people mostly comes to these new crypto sites to earn money (my self included), I find it hard to see that Yours.org will get the following it needs to prevail.

I am not positive about this one.

Synereo

I haven't tried Synereo yet as it seems they have only finished a tool called WildSpark, that works as a distributed meta-layer on top of existing media hubs and social networks ie. Youtube. It does sound like they have a good idea, but as I am not using mainstream social media that much I have until now not really felt any incentive to use it. It should be easy though and maybe I will try it when I find some time.

I don't really know about this one yet, but for me it will mainly be used as curator if I am getting to use it at all.

Sola

I just signed up on Sola yesterday and it is a media that is close to Instagram. You can post images and a little text and then you are supposed to scroll through these cards and upvote the ones you like. You only have a certain amount of point to use each day and they are used for both posting, commenting, and upvoting. For each post you make in one day the prize rises, a way to avoid spamming.

The whole thing is very slick and nice looking and it works like a dream. Sadly you have to go through endless memes, stock images of Alpine landscapes and girls in bikinis. I only saw two interesting cards today (and I have really worked me through a lot of them for this review) and I already knew one of them, it was the funny, elegant and sexy surrealism of @reinhard-schmid, and the other image, a gorgeous double exposure of a girl and a tree, was, I realised after checking it, another Steemian: my friend @shortcut.

Sola looks like one big copyright infrigement. I asked one person who had posted a nice drawing if it was herself who had made it... and it was not.

The only quality I see is people here from Steemit like @papa-pepper or the above mentioned. There are some photos that people has taken of them selves that is of course OK. I dont mind selfies and food-pictures even though I can't see the point in watching random peoples faces or meals, but the large part of Sola as I have experienced it is just the garbage of the internet that you could see on any other social media.

So I am not really that positive about Sola at all. I think I will try to post my images anyway with a link to Steemit.

So this is about it - Hope you can use the info.