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Bringing the Next Wave of Writers (And Readers) Onchain

Introducing Auto-Crosspost: A simple way to publish onchain

Colin Armstrong
Reid DeRamus
Meesh

Colin Armstrong, Reid DeRamus and Meesh

Moving your entire newsletter — posts, audience, settings, and all — to a new platform is a big ask. We want to make it easy to experience the value of publishing on Paragraph without deciding to move platforms and go through an import flow.

That’s why we’re launching Auto-Crosspost, a new feature that lets you automatically publish your existing newsletter to Paragraph — no extra work, no switching platforms, no moving subscribers.

It’s a simple way to reach a new audience, get more visibility for your writing, spark more discussion around your ideas, and open up new ways for readers to support you.

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One post, multiple surfaces

All you need to do is create a Paragraph account and drop in your publication’s RSS feed, and we’ll take care of the rest.

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Publication settings

Once you connect your RSS feed, every new post you publish will automatically:

  • Appear on your Paragraph publication

  • Be sent via email and wallet to any Paragraph subscribers

  • Be eligible for minting and other new monetization features

  • Reach new readers across Paragraph’s discovery surfaces

You can always edit, hide, or delete any crossposted post, and it's easy to turn off the connection at any time. This feature works with any publishing platform that supports RSS feeds, including Ghost, Medium, Substack, WordPress, Beehiiv, and more.

Future improvements

At launch, you’ll need to manually share crossposted posts to Farcaster to tap into its full benefits. Once shared, your posts will load instantly in the Paragraph mini app and be easy to read, discuss, subscribe to, and collect, all without leaving the social feed.

Soon, writers will be able to sign in with Farcaster and grant write permissions, allowing their crossposted posts to automatically publish to the Farcaster social feed. This is a key ingredient in getting more visibility, reader sharing, discussion, and earnings for your work.

In the coming weeks, we’ll also start sending a stats email after each crossposted post, highlighting the extra views, readers, and revenue you earned by publishing onchain.

Get started in a couple easy steps

We want to help writers get more out of their work without any extra effort. Auto-Crosspost is a first step toward making it easy to publish on Paragraph and tap into all the benefits that come with it.

Here's how to get started:

  • Head to paragraph.com and create an account.

  • In the publication settings, scroll to the Auto-Crosspost section.

  • Paste your publication's RSS feed and click connect.

Your next post (and every post after) will automatically publish to Paragraph, helping you grow your audience and earnings with zero extra lift.

Have questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you — just drop us a note at hello@paragraph.com.

fzn0x
Commented 4 weeks ago

Onchain cross-post = future of social

Paragism
Paragism
Commented 1 month ago

It is a cool idea

omghax.base.eth
omghax.base.eth
Commented 1 month ago

YAAAS 🫰 Paragraph takeover is upon us! 💜

Brandon Donnelly
Brandon Donnelly
Commented 1 month ago

great idea

caphillcrypto
Commented 1 month ago

This is awesome. Can you crosspost from Kit?

Murtaza HussainFarcaster
Murtaza Hussain
Commented 3 weeks ago

New substack on the end of the global liberal revolution: https://mazmhussain.substack.com/p/a-healthy-sense-of-tragedy

Danielokey.base.ethFarcaster
Danielokey.base.eth
Commented 3 weeks ago

You should try @paragraph

Reid DeRamusFarcaster
Reid DeRamus
Commented 3 weeks ago

@mazmhussain been meaning to let you know about this auto-crosspost feature that may make it easier for folks on Farcaster to read, engage, and support your writing. https://paragraph.com/@blog/bringing-the-next-wave-of-writers-onchain

Murtaza HussainFarcaster
Murtaza Hussain
Commented 3 weeks ago

Whoa this looks good

Danielokey.base.ethFarcaster
Danielokey.base.eth
Commented 3 weeks ago

Was so happy when this dropped last week!

ColinFarcaster
Colin
Commented 1 month ago

Excited to introduce a new way to grow your audience and get more from your writing. Automatically crosspost from Medium, Substack, Ghost, and more to Paragraph — reach new readers, spark deeper discussion, and unlock new ways for people to support your work. https://paragraph.com/@blog/bringing-the-next-wave-of-writers-onchain

matthewbFarcaster
matthewb
Commented 1 month ago

cc: @mike-orcutt

borodutchFarcaster
borodutch
Commented 1 month ago

do you have a step-by-step for ghost?

ColinFarcaster
Colin
Commented 1 month ago

We support any RSS feeds from any of the major publishing platforms, so the instructions in the blogpost would also apply to Ghost. TLDR: - make Paragraph account - go to import/export settings - drop in RSS feed URL to connect to Paragraph - that's all

borodutchFarcaster
borodutch
Commented 1 month ago

can i have multiple blogs from ghost go into the same paragraph account?

Reid DeRamusFarcaster
Reid DeRamus
Commented 1 month ago

Not quite yet... but having multiple publications in one account has been a hugely requested feature & we hope to have support for it soon.

Callum Wanderloots ✨Farcaster
Callum Wanderloots ✨
Commented 1 month ago

awesome! Love this idea If someone has subscribed to substack and paragraph, does that mean that two emails would be sent out?

Reid DeRamusFarcaster
Reid DeRamus
Commented 1 month ago

Yes, if someone subscribes to both, they'll get the email twice, but we think that'll be a very rare edge case. If it becomes an issue, I think it's solvable.

Callum Wanderloots ✨Farcaster
Callum Wanderloots ✨
Commented 1 month ago

Got it! Just trying to gauge my next steps, since I had previously imported all of my substack email list to paragraph, so I have about 300 email overlap, but subsequently got 200 emails ish on paragraph alone Just wondering if there’s an easy way for me to continue using paragraph for emails and just not send out the substack portion as an email (keeping it as a post) 🤔 Might just have to do an excel comparison

petar.xyzFarcaster
petar.xyz
Commented 1 month ago

Based feat I’ll use

AdamFarcaster
Adam
Commented 1 month ago

Solid update, Colin 😎 As I lean into newsletters more this is definitely a feature I'll be utilizing. Also appreciate the commitment to make this process more fluent.

Uncle HODLFarcaster
Uncle HODL
Commented 1 month ago

Wait this is super dope, but does it work in reverse? From para to mirror? 500 $DEGEN 💎✊

Joshua SallesFarcaster
Joshua Salles
Commented 1 month ago

I wish... they seem more focused on @paragraph than /mirror at the moment, let's hope they don't forget about it 😢💜

cyrusFarcaster
cyrus
Commented 1 month ago

@gmo

CarlosFarcaster
Carlos
Commented 1 month ago

this is cool

Benjamin ⌐◨-◨Farcaster
Benjamin ⌐◨-◨
Commented 1 month ago

love it!!! is there a way to do it without cannibalizing SEO rankings?

Bringing the Next Wave of Writers (And Readers) Onchain