I wrote an unplanned 2000-word response, in first-person journal style, to these thoughtful questions. 

It's kinda spicy, and it's not everyone's cuppa. But it also wants to be shared in a Farcaster context.

So instead of posting it publicly, I'm going to token-gate it for my current Fan Token holders (.5 and higher), and also share it in a private link with @manansh and the friends who bid on my Fan Tokens early but were outbid by snipers. 

I'm using @moxiescout to get the list of early bidder names. (https://moxiescout.vercel.app/auction/8451)

Release date will be Monday, Dec. 16.

Update on my plans to release a token-gated journal writing: 

Today I learned that @paragraph deprecated the token gating feature last month. (See the comments for more info if you missed this announcement, as I did).

Oy. It hadn't even occurred to me that this might be an issue.

So I'll need to take time to give further thought to other options for token-gating in the future.

For tomorrow's release, I'll just send the private link to all the token holders + early bidders via DCs in a group chat.

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Update on my plans to release a token-gated journal writing: 

Today I learned that @paragraph deprecated the token gating feature last month. (See the comments for more info if you missed this announcement, as I did).

Oy. It hadn't even occurred to me that this might be an issue.

So I'll need to take time to give further thought to other options for token-gating in the future.

For tomorrow's release, I'll just send the private link to all the token holders + early bidders via DCs in a group chat. 

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I know, I was also very frustrated when I found that out. Seemed like a completely unnecessary removal of a feature that was fairly unique across web3 (writing token gating). 

Seems to me they're trying to compete more with zora for a mint to read or just a mint to own post, rather than using it as a community building platform, which, imo, defeats a large part of a newsletter platform like that...

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Completely fair and I agree, open to seeing how it goes. 

I think token gating in the age of ai scraping will become a large value prop of web3 as a whole, so it seems odd to remove it. 

I know @hypersub is planning on introducing content gating, and paragraph is in talks with adding that to their platform, so I could see hypersub doing all of the gating for various platforms in the future with their STP protocol

I found it baffling and frustrating too, though I respect the team's vision so I'll keep an open mind.

It sounds like they plan to emphasize the collectibles aspect more, but that doesn't sound encouraging. In the past few months I've seen a steep decrease in the number of people minting my posts on Paragraph. 

My situation may not be typical, but in any case I don't see much evidence that collectibles will ever amount to more than supplementary revenue at best for most long-form writing. But again, I'm open to being convinced otherwise.