there were scam projects trying to get the name,
they were announced before Dtube,

It's understandable they want to have controls over their code, something you can't have on steem, the code is steem, like it or not, no smart-contracts. Even if the technology allows for it, EOS is an example.

@furion is a great dev, that alone is enough to prove it's not a scam, but I suppose you just saw some post titles.

https://alpha.view.ly

there you are :D no keys to give and no scripts to mine you sooooooo it's pretty good :)