Will Partiko be what Steemit should have been?
Yesterday, or rather, the whole last week something happened, which didn't get the publicity it deserved.
Something that could change the future for Steem by attracting ten-thousands of new users.
@partiko made a big huge move.
Partiko's Move Against Censorship
On the 12th of December (7 days ago) Partiko released a statement on twitter, towards tumblrs recent ban against all pornographic content.
Not only did they make a statement - but they also created a tool which allowed any Tumblr-blog owner to save & backup their own blog. Just 2 days after the announcement, they backed up over 10,000 blogs.
And fast forward to today, over 50,000 blogs have been saved.
Partiko is going to bring masses of people to Steem
As it turns out, once Partiko is ready for them in February 2019, all of the 50,000 blogs are going to be available.
Do you know what this means?
Possibly over 50,000 people will come flocking to Steem. People that aren't primarily interested in making money, but in just wanting to be able to post their content, without being censored.
And do you know what the best thing is?
Partiko's path? Deliever first, cash-in later
All of this is being done, without Partiko relying on Steemit Inc. delegations. They're not even taking benefactor rewards.
I'm a big believer in judging people (& projects) on their actions, not only in their words.
And the fact is, Partiko so far has always over-delivered. Especially when looking at what they've received in return.
Based on the data of Steem Apps, it is the 5th biggest project (out of the 25 listed there) sorted by Daily Average Users, (not yet counting passive users and voters due to missing blockchain data) but they have only received 224 STEEM in a week.
That's nothing compared to the value they're bringing.
Only recently, over 200,000 Steempower were delegated to Partiko from the Steem community - which is not that much, considering most bid-bots based on postpromoter forks (which require pretty much 0 skill) have more Steempower than that.
However, that's not what Partiko is about.
Partiko has a plan: Bringing new users to Steem
When I was on Steemfest3, one of the best presentations I saw was the one from Partiko's founder @crypto.talk.
The way @crypto.talk presented, reminded me very much of how Steve Jobs would present new apple products.
I even told him that myself and his answer?
I do watch a lot of Steve Jobs
I had to chuckle a bit when I read that. :D
But I don't want to go too much off-topic. What I want to explain with this story is that everything Partiko has done (which was heavily influenced by its founder) has been done with a plan.
They didn't rely on funding through Steem, instead, they brought value with a superb app for android & ios.
And after providing that value, advertised in a smart way by adding the little posted using partiko text under every comment & post made via the app.
Will Partiko be what Steemit should have been?
But what about the clickbait title? What do I mean with that? Can partiko really become what Steemit should have been?
Well. I don't believe in talking about topics for the 5th time. (Steem Apps wouldn't have been developed in 2 weeks if I'd be that kind of a person.)
Fact is, Steemit Inc. realized they focused on too many things at the same time - and decided to switch completely on blockchain development from now. And I 100% agree.
They should have done it from the beginning, but afterwards one is always smarter and who am I to critique someone for that.
However, what this means is that Steemit Inc didn't focus completely on making Steemit the best social platform it could have been - otherwise we would have a much more advanced Steemit.com (condenser)
But Partiko is doing exactly this!
Partiko is focusing completely on making people feel welcome on Steem
Partiko is doing exactly what Steemit wasn't able to do (not saying it's their fault, just stating a fact): bringing people to Steem and keeping them. (I'm talking retention rate.)
That's why I brought up the Tumblr initiative because this shows exactly what their focus is on.
And more accurately, this is their roadmap:
Q4 2018: Partiko Messaging for iOS, Save Tumblr campaign
Q1 2019: Wallet, Tumblr user migration
Q2 2019: Build better onboarding experience
Q3 2019: Growth campaign
Q4 2019: Partiko Exchange
Now, to close this post up, I would like to share a 1-minute video, recorded of @crypto.talk at a private event on Steem Fest 3:
And to answer a possible question: Why am I writing this post?
Well, I'm just excited to see that we've got our own Steve Jobs on Steem - and his name is @crypto.talk.
And his product?
Partiko
![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://i.imgur.com/GMiLiAh.png)
Do you believe that my work is valuable for Steem? Then please vote for me as witness.
The opportunity to grab users discarded and abused by centralised platforms is a huge one and its fantastic to see Partiko grabbing this opportunity with both hands.
I'm thinking of increasing my delegation to them.
@partiko @therealwolf So I read more on this right, and as we all know, i'm all about Steem, but with adoption we must be careful because the same pedophiles that made a community over at tumblr will also flock here. In the articles that I read, tumblr had a huge issue advancing because of it. I welcome all morale users of tumblr to come here AND IM GLAD THAT YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE for MORALE users, but my God, if I have to start using all my steempower to flag pedo's then i'm not gonna be to happy... I believe in censorship resistance but i mean come on.
Truce but no Truce
Thanks for the thoughtful response! What's cool about a decentralized community is that, you get to see what you want to see. If you follow a certain tag, like #food, chances are that you won't see a lot nsfw content, unless nsfw content creators all of a sudden started to add the food tag to their posts, which is very unlikely to happen.
Does that make sense to you? Let us know if you have more questions! We are always here to help!
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I can respect that, and you do state facts. I guess in a shorter concern, I think I just want to say "Let's be prepared" I think we have a great system that handles NSFW content and as with most anything, there will be bumps in the road that us as a community will have to handle. Steem On!!!! #salute
Super well said! Hopefully you will get a chance to try out Partiko soon!
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this is exactly the kind of smart leveraging we've been dying for from "leadership" ,,, aweome thinking, this is "real business" smarts !
now is the time to shine
Exactly! Big fan of your user photo!
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That is an outstanding effort to seize an opportunity to bring more people to the platform.
The real question is: what would it take to do the same for FACEBOOK? How can a Facebook account be ported over for new users? How do we setup viewer circles to help privacy and at the same time promoting inclusion. Many people are tired of social sites that are abusing their trust, privacy, and not sharing the benefits.
They absolutely did rely on funding, possibly self-funding. What they didn't rely on is Steemit delegation or some other vehicle by which they use reward pool as a money spigot to fund their business. Bravo and we need more of that.
Also, nice work @crypto.talk and Partiko!
as long as something is grabbing market share, grabbing users, that's what we need now... we need bodies, then things can happen organically,,, there should be 100,000s here instead of tens .... or less !
what we need here is FBI / IRS to clean this place up
Yeah, my use of words wasn't optimal.
Changed it to:
it looks like you are connected to 'fighting abuse' team of looters here . just to let you know that lawsuits are coming against all of you scumbags .
Good Luck filling a lawsuit against people you don't know in countries you don't know
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;-) where is a will there's a way
Just wish it wasn't phone based. :(
I also saw this as a GREAT move even though I hate porn I can recognize the intelligence in this move.
:)
I'm glad you made a post recognizing it.
Funny thing, before this post, I learned about it on Twitter, not Steem.
Oh yeah, same here! I personally hate posting anything using my phone, but maybe I'm just old-school :P
I can't do it! Maybe a twitter like line, but no way, I'm typing an entire paragraph on my phone. :) I'm old school too.
Yeah me too.. :(
That's what I meant with
which didn't get the publicity it deserved.
people need to stop sucking with resteems, I'm one of them I just keep forgetting to resteem posts as often
If you download Bluestacks you can use Partiko on your PC or laptop!
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Does Bluestacks work for Mac?
Posted using Partiko iOS
Sorry, I don't know, I don't have a Mac.
Posted using Partiko Android
Great! Their presentation at SteemFest was nice and promising, those actions speak even louder ;) There is a reason why I delegate 500 SP to @partiko :)
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Yes, their presentation was amazing, but the tumblr action blew my mind - super smart!
Hi @theaustrianguy! Special squad of highly trained hamsters prepared this delegation link for you:
steemconnect 500.0 SP delegation to @partiko.
Partiko is leading the way for dapps on the steem blockchain. 😎
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Thank you so much for your support all along!
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Sorry but I am a bit sceptic to people who can't even spell "Feburary" in an official announcement.
Thank you so much for the amazing write up! We will do our best to live up to our promise!
We would also like to thank everybody who's contributing to the Steem ecosystem! Steemit Inc, Smartsteem, SteemMonsters are all bringing value in their own ways! It's only a matter of time before the world realize how amazing we are!
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Smarter move. Ich teste Partiko seit einer Woche und werde in der kommenden Woche einen ausführlichen Bericht schreiben.
Schläfst Du eigentlich noch?
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Nein.
Just kidding :D
Natürlich schlafe ich noch, aber genau jetzt ist die Zeit mal richtig in die Tasten zu hauen.