Hello fediverse!
This morning we shipped an exciting new version of #Flipboard that enables *anyone* on Flipboard to follow *anyone* in the fediverse.
This is the culmination of a ton of work to deeply integrate #ActivityPub into the product. The result is incredibly seamless.
Just tap on the search icon in Flipboard and tap the follow button for anyone featured there or that you find in search. You’ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds.
Check the screenshots below and read this post to learn more:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/
Now People on Flipboard Can Follow Anyone in the Fediverse - Flipboard
Anyone who is federated is followable on Flipboard, giving Flipboard’s community even more options for people and content to enjoy.Flipboard
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BeAware :fediverse:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •woohoo!
Great work Mike! Faster and more reliable than Threads!
Very admirable.
Doctor Popular
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Doctor Popular • • •@docpop Exactly. Starting today every Flipboard user can follow every fediverse user and see their posts in relevant feeds.
Also starting today, any Flipboard user can request to federate their Flipboard account which will turn them into a full blown Fediverse user who can be discovered and followed from Mastodon and other fediverse apps.
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Sam Sethi :pc2red:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •@docpop it's amazing to see flipboard embracing the fediverse so fully, it's impressive!
could you explain how we can request to federate our flipboard account ? do we need to create a flipboard.social account for that ?
Mike McCue
in reply to Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move: • • •cmarie 🥥🫶💪
in reply to Mike McCue • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Doctor Popular • • •@docpop
If I understand correctly, Flipboard is now fully part of the Fediverse?
So, that's why there's no need to create a separate account, because your existing Flipboard account now has Fediverse compatibility?
Salvo Micciché
in reply to Mike McCue • • •I just installed the update, it seems to work very well (finally the Pixelfed aggregation also works).
It's a very interesting and promising goal, congratulations. @flipboard is always ahead of everyone! And keep it up!
We Distribute
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Congratulations, Mike! We're already spreading the word.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flipboard-fediverse-following/
Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse
Anuj Ahooja (We Distribute)Mike McCue
in reply to We Distribute • • •@hello Thank you! And one really important point to highlight:
This is actually a full blown ActivityPub follow. So what that means is that if your Flipboard account is federated it is a full two way connection and you can reply to posts.
Also, starting today, any Flipboard user can request to federate their account to gain this two way capability. We are gradually federating more and more accounts as we scale our backend.
Dan Neuman
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Dan Neuman • • •Dan Neuman
in reply to Mike McCue • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Mike McCue • • •If it's any help, PeerTube is in the same boat, they have a concept of accounts which own multiple channels, but Mastodon (incorrectly IMHO) interprets these channels as groups, just as it does for Flipboard's magazines.
Perhaps this interpretation could be worked on at Mastodon's end via the Mastodon Github?
The multiple feeds per account thing is already possible on the Fedi, it's just Mastodon is not handling/displaying these correctly.
cmarie 🥥🫶💪
in reply to Mike McCue • • •What I'm envisioning for the future is a way to have one of my mastodon lists show up as a flipboard magazine 😊
I have no idea how to make that happen bc I'm just a user, but that would be pretty great!
@dan613
Mike McCue
in reply to cmarie 🥥🫶💪 • • •cmarie 🥥🫶💪
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Jeff Sikes
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Silent Freak
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Ist das gut oder nicht? Was bedeutet das für den einzelnen Durchschnittströtifanten wie mich?
Mike McCue
in reply to Silent Freak • • •Silent Freak
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Dallas Groot
in reply to Mike McCue • • •JanetteSpeyer
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Pesto Jaguar
in reply to Mike McCue • • •spinbackwards
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Great news. And thanks for interviewing Ghost co-founder John O'Nolan. I love Ghost.
BTW. I have a Tellme t-shirt that I'm never letting go of.
Michael Foster
in reply to Mike McCue • • •cmarie 🥥🫶💪
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Martin Kostera
in reply to Mike McCue • • •(Flipboard account martin@kostera.name)
🤷♂️
@Mike McCue
Mike McCue
in reply to Martin Kostera • • •Martin Kostera
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Martin Kostera • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Martin Kostera • • •Martin Kostera
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Martin Kostera • • •Flipboard Community Support
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
Unknown parent • • •Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Mike McCue • • •@Flipboard I checked it with my Mastodon Account and my WordPress blog and it seems to show my Mastodon posts on Flipboard, but I can't see my Flipboard Account in the followers list of Mastodon or my Blog?
Does flipboard send a real "Follow" request or does it simply subscribe to the outbox in a similar way as with RSS?
I would love to debug it a bit, so that it plays nicely with the WordPress plugin, but I can't see any requests to the inbox at all.
Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Amit Pundir :android: :tux: • • •Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
in reply to Amit Pundir :android: :tux: • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Amit Pundir :android: :tux: • • •Flipboard Community Support
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
in reply to Flipboard Community Support • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Amit Pundir :android: :tux: • • •Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Sindarina, Edge Case Detective • • •Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
in reply to Mike McCue • • •9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
in reply to Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire) • • •Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
in reply to 9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay: • • •nah they are using threads fediverse icon instead the classical one.
not gona deny its an icon that aesthetically works better with current apps and stuff like that (circles better than straight lines. being straight is bad joke here).
Nothing important worth blocking I think. They just enabled federation for everyone
#alsoIThinkYouJustMentionedTheCeoLol
9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
in reply to Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire) • • •also i just don't remember what flipboard did but i guess we'll keep it federating. it seems like they provide news sources directly. will probably suspend the fox account though
Mike McCue
in reply to 9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay: • • •9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Mike McCue
in reply to 9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay: • • •gecertificeerde alex 🔰
in reply to Mike McCue • • •at this point it would be better to just fetch the instance's favicon (like *key and akkoma does)
unless it's just for promo material then ignore the fetch suggestion, but nonetheless it's frankly disrespectful to the network that y'all are compliant in meta's attempts at the EEE of fediverse
Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
in reply to gecertificeerde alex 🔰 • • •Filtered word: nsfw
tbh icons can be nsfw in bad cases, and also "what this?" for people
also if I understood correctly for design reasons its on greyscale so yeah.
tbh I was half joking on the first post and wasn't expecting a reply haha
#alsoWowWafrnWorksWithANewImplementationNoProblem
expired oyster card reseller :deifirev:
in reply to Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire) • • •Mike McCue
in reply to expired oyster card reseller :deifirev: • • •Mike McCue
in reply to Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire) • • •Jupiter Rowland
in reply to Mike McCue • • •@Mike McCue A new proposal for a Fediverse logo is a Unicode character: ⁂ (U+2042).
This would not only allow, but actively help Meta assume control over the Fediverse.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Asterism #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo #Meta #EmbraceExtendExtinguish
Mike McCue
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •Fediverse Symbol ⁂
in reply to Mike McCue • • •A symbol for the fediverse ⁂
⁂ fediverse symbolFediverse Symbol ⁂
in reply to Mike McCue • • •Colin Devroe
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