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@angdraug @caseynewton @dangillmor @Flipboard So far our primary focus has been to drive lots of high quality traffic to the publishers and bloggers featured on Flipboard which in turn enables those content creators to monetize with whatever combination of ads, paywalls or memberships they choose. Our commitment to helping content creators get their content discovered, visited and monetized has been a longstanding goal of ours and is the foundation for the thousands of partnerships we have maintained with publishers around the world for over a decade now. Today Flipboard is typically one of the top 5 traffic drivers on the Internet and sometimes we rank in the top 1-3 referrers for smaller sites. We are particularly helpful for independent content creators looking to get discovered and build audience within an interest area.

All that said, I think we can do more here and our work in the fediverse will set the stage for us to build new and more flexible ways for both content creators and curators to be rewarded with revenue and loyal community members that they actually own (via ActivityPub) rather than rent (via a proprietary walled garden). Stay tuned for a lot more to come on this topic later this year.

And for the record, I too think the Arc Browser is exploitative.