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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.

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great move So if I crosspost from substack, it automatically creates a mirrored paragraph account for that content? Just curious how it works exactly

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Pretty much, yes, with the caveat that you need to set up an existing Paragraph account first - set up Paragraph publication - connect this publication to your Substack by dropping in your Substack URL - voila - any new time you publish on Substack, we mirror it to Paragraph

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Love this @colin and @reidtandy ! If I add my substack RSS to an existing paragraph account, I assume in addition to automatically publishing any new substacks to my paragraph publication, I can also go in and manually add paragraph-only posts in the same publication?

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Yes!

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nice! Paragraph just became my catch all. Had been publishing stand alone pieces on paragraph, and regular newsletter/journals on substack. Will continue to use paragraph for stand alone blogs, but now it will also have my newsletter content. New Description for my paragraph publication: A collection of essays and reflections spanning crypto, tech, entrepreneurship, parenting, wellness, spirituality, and travel—now featuring all posts from my substack newsletter, Some of the Things.

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how do I migrate all of my content that’s already Substack? is this only for new posts?

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We already support post/subscriber migration from Subtsack. You can export a CSV and import it into your Paragraph publication in your publication settings

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Does it guarantee the same SEO/distribution as it would if I posted on the site natively?

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Yes

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I’ll give it a go

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The future improvements paragraph is a little confusing "At launch, you’ll need to manually share crossposted posts to Farcaster to tap into its full benefits" Dont know what this means exactly. As long as my substack posts start getting auto published to paragraph, sounds like a great step towards eventual migration.

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We want to eventually support a Paragraph to Farcaster auto publish flow. Eg, you could imagine you sign-in-with-Farcaster on Paragraph, and we can auto-cast (from your account) every time you publish. So, if you're auto-crossposting from Substack, it'd go from Substack -> Paragraph -> Farcaster, all automatically. This is in the future, though, and not 100% related to the Substack -> Paragraph crossposting flow!

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gotcha! not a priority for me, btw, but sounds nice to have when its ready

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It's probably more relevant for folks that are not as active on Farcaster. Ideally, we'd send them a note the day after their post is published with tons of new readers, comments, and commerce. And that would in turn gradually encourage them to be more active on Farcaster / Paragraph, and hopefully at some point some of their readers follow them over.

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farcasteradmin.eth

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

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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

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cc: @mike-orcutt

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eclecticcapital.eth

incredibly cool 👀

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Let us know if you try it out! Would love to hear feedback.

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Awesome feature

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Based feat I’ll use

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sandiforward.eth

Gonna test this out soon. Thanks @colin

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this is cool

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Perfect time for crosspost.eth 👀

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That’s pretty nice ngl

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