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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.
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#activitypub #flipboard
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BeAware :fediverse:
BeAware :fediverse:
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woohoo!

Great work Mike! Faster and more reliable than Threads!

Very admirable.

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Doctor Popular
Doctor Popular
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this is so exciting! If I understand it correctly, users can subscribe to federated content without needing to create an account on the fediverse, right? Then, if they do want to join the fediverse, they'll have access to more options (like commenting).
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@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.

@Doctor Popular

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Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:
Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:
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@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 ?

@Doctor Popular
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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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@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?

@Doctor Popular
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Salvo Micciché
Salvo Micciché
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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!

@Flipboard Video
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We Distribute
We Distribute
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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

Starting today, Flipboard will let users search for and follow accounts from across the Fediverse from the comfort of their own dashboards. This is the next step in introducing Flipboard's wider userb
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@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.

@We Distribute
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Dan Neuman
Dan Neuman
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Each person/account shows up as a separate magazine, right? Is there an easy way to combine them?
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@dan613 Great Q. We definitely need a way to do this. I believe the fediverse should have a notion of multiple feeds for a single account. This would also help enable things like publicly shareable lists. Open to ideas for how to make this happen!
@Dan Neuman
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Dan Neuman
Dan Neuman
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I was thinking more like lists on Flipboard. It's not just for the Fediverse, but any RSS feed like WordPress. I can do it with an external RSS aggregator, but I don't see why Flipboard couldn't do this internally (multiple feeds per magazine).
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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
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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.

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cmarie 🥥🫶💪
cmarie 🥥🫶💪
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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

@Dan Neuman
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@_ohcoco_ @dan613 Turns out you can do this today. You can log into your Mastodon account directly and then you can access your lists as a flipboard magazine. To do this, go to the following tab (the 4 squares icon), select the accounts sub tab, select mastodon, log into your account, then tap on your account from this tab and you'll see your lists. Screen shots here:
@cmarie 🥥🫶💪 @Dan Neuman
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cmarie 🥥🫶💪
cmarie 🥥🫶💪
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oohhhh...! Setting this up will be my Thursday reward for doing homework tonight & class tomorrow 😊 @dan613
@Dan Neuman
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Silent Freak
Silent Freak
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@marcr
Ist das gut oder nicht? Was bedeutet das für den einzelnen Durchschnittströtifanten wie mich?
@Marc Riese
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@Nudelfreak Dies bedeutet, dass Flipboard-Benutzer jetzt Beiträge von Fediverse-Benutzern sehen können, die von Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed usw. posten.
@Silent Freak
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Silent Freak
Silent Freak
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Okay ich hätte genauer fragen müssen. Soweit hatte ich das wohl schon verstanden. Ich frage mich aber, ob sich das auf die Kultur im fediversum auswirken könnte. Z.b kleben einen schneller Bots oder Trolls am Konto oder hat das ggf andere negative Konsequenzen?
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Dallas Groot
Dallas Groot
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great work getting this out before threads could fully roll it out
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spinbackwards
spinbackwards
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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.

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cmarie 🥥🫶💪
cmarie 🥥🫶💪
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Okay. I might have to return to flipboard! I used it *ages* ago, but this looks great.
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Martin Kostera
Martin Kostera
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Tried connect from app myself, potus, @xChaos, @Kosmo Klub, even Kara Swisher. It's not working. Search for Social is full of YT users and channels, nothing from Fediverse.
(Flipboard account martin@kostera.name)
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@Mike McCue
@xChaos @Mike McCue @Kosmo Klub
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@martin Will look into this. Be sure you're using the very latest version of Flipboard. CCing @FlipboardCS to help.
@Martin Kostera @Flipboard Community Support
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Martin Kostera
Martin Kostera
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@Mike McCue Flipboard 4.3.27, 5463
@Mike McCue
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@martin you should see a Fediverse sub tab when you go to search. Like this:
@Martin Kostera
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Martin Kostera
Martin Kostera
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@Mike McCue Android. I see Fediverse sub, but I can't rolling down for hours to find anybody. There are millions accounts on Fediverse(tried to roll down for several minutes, no POTUS, for example). And when I use search, Fediverse sub disappear and in result I can't see anything from Fediverse. 🤷‍♂️
@Mike McCue
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@Denny My eyes are aging too so I sympathize with this. I'll see what we can do to get this improved.
@Denny Henke
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Matthias Pfefferle
Matthias Pfefferle
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@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.

@Flipboard
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Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
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Nice! But it would be great to use Flipboard as the proper Mastodon client (with like/reply/post/retoot access) for the connected Fedi account.
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@pundir You can actually do this by connecting your fedi account to Flipboard. Go to the Following tab (the tab with 4 squares) and select the accounts tab. Then sign in to mastodon and you'll see your home timeline, mentions, lists, etc. and can fully reply, like, etc.
@Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
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Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
Amit Pundir :android: :tux:
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I tried the same yesterday. The timeline loaded but I couldn't post and felt like it worked in read-only mode. But thank you for confirming that flipboard can be used as a Mastodon client. I'll try again today.
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
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@ben Your screenshots make it look like it's mostly integration with the Meta product known as Threads 😜
@Ben Tasker
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Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
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meta fedi icon :(
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Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
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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

#alsoIThinkYouJustMentionedTheCeoLol
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9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
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we mention the ceo for everything on Thy Freddy Verses !!! ​:mlm_fedi:​ Nobody is spared.
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
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9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
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well while you are here i wanna ask the question as the original post that started this thread, why the meta fedi icon instead of the original? was there a reason for using that one instead? i think it'd be better to use the original icon to prevent any future confusion or anything like "the thing facebook made"
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@sneexy @gabboman fair question. I don’t think the fediverse icon works particularly well when scaled down and when placed next to or on top of avatars. Also the vast majority of people have never even seen that icon. Meanwhile the threads fediverse icon is simple and clean, doesn’t rely on color, and works well scaled down. Most of all, whether we like it or not, millions of people are being exposed to this icon everyday on Threads as a symbol of the fediverse so I think it’s a pragmatic choice.
@Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire) @9.4 tons of oreo filling :drgn_flag_gay:
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gecertificeerde alex 🔰
gecertificeerde alex 🔰
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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

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Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
Gabbo the wafrn guy :neocat_floof_devil_256: (not a vampire)
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Filtered word: nsfw

#alsoWowWafrnWorksWithANewImplementationNoProblem
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Jupiter Rowland
Jupiter Rowland
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@Mike McCue A new proposal for a Fediverse logo is a Unicode character: ⁂ (U+2042).

Most of all, whether we like it or not, millions of people are being exposed to this icon everyday on Threads as a symbol of the fediverse so I think it’s a pragmatic choice.


This would not only allow, but actively help Meta assume control over the Fediverse.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Asterism #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo #Meta #EmbraceExtendExtinguish

#fediverse #meta #FediverseMeta #FediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #EmbraceExtendExtinguish #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo #Asterism @Mike McCue
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Mike McCue
Mike McCue
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@jupiter_rowland That’s a cool suggestion. Will explore that and other options. They key is we need everyone to use the same icon otherwise users will be very confused.
@Jupiter Rowland
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂
Fediverse Symbol ⁂
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@jupiter_rowland We just made a page to explain ⁂ more in details if you’re interested: https://symbol.fediverse.info

A symbol for the fediverse ⁂

We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
⁂ fediverse symbol
@Jupiter Rowland
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂
Fediverse Symbol ⁂
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@jupiter_rowland even today not everyone is using the same icon. Many people are using the Mastodon logo when what they are representing is the fediverse, Theads stepped in and made up their own (which I see you are now using) but having Meta be the one to choose symbology for us seems very counter to many of our collective visions. And having each platform and each software all use different symbology is indeed very confusing. Thus this initiative.
@Jupiter Rowland
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