I've been thinking about this stubborn how-to-get-writers-sustainably-funded problem for a long time, since it pre-dates crypto. It's actually become one of my main intellectual interests over the years.
Without getting too far into the weeds, here are a few thoughts:
What if Paragraph were to zoom out and focus more on the social layer from a systems perspective -- i.e., think of context, curation, and conversation as the primary paths to value creation, rather than individual writers?
Could Paragraph help writers collectively build thriving creative scenes with network effects accruing to the contributors -- writers, editors, curators, preservers, and readers?
One of the things that drew me to Paragraph in the first place was the quote-highlight feature, for example. Could Paragraph give contributors places to preserve quotes and respond to them in ways that might help draw others into an ongoing conversation around the work? Maybe in a mini-app? 5 replies
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That was indeed an interesting conversation, and I like the club goods idea. This is more or less why I have started my @trpplffct poetry grant fund. It's still a bit low profile, and I am exploring ways to make it work, but the idea is that funds are raised through (Degen) tips and donations, and distributed through small grants and onchain collecting. It is small, but it works. I have raised enough to run it for a bit over a year now, doing a one-poet grant and a collection budget per month.
Now it's a one-person project, but if something like that can be done by a collective...
What I have been trying to solve for, is the challenge I found in 'crypto art' circles that artists are very supportive of eachother, and often pump back their earnings back into the community, but mostly these earnings come from other artists doing the same. It's a limited amount of value that is pumped around, in stead of a steady stream that comes from outside to fund writing. 1 reply
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