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Mike McCue

Today was a huge milestone in our quest to federate #Flipboard and tear down the walls around our own walled garden.

First, we launched a new version of Flipboard for iOS and Android which brings the promise of two way federation to life. Now when a federated Flipboard user curates, people in the fediverse can reply, favorite, boost or follow those Flipboard users who will in turn see that activity in their usual notifications tab. Even better, Flipboard users can directly reply to people in the fediverse -- and very soon they will also be able to follow each other.

Second, we federated some of our best curators today who are actively curating more than 10,000 magazines about everything from climate change to kale smoothie recipes. I'm grateful to our many curators and the service they provide to so many others who want to find the best content about a shared interest. I know our curators are excited to have millions more people who could potentially benefit from their curation. I also know that people in the fediverse will give a warm welcome to these curators. Especially now that everyone can hear and talk to each other over what was once two totally separate networks but now increasingly are in one and the same #fediverse.

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Mike McCue

@bart Thanks Bart! I always recommend Mammoth to people who want to see what their newly federated account looks like in Mastodon. You guys have done a great job.

Evan Prodromou

@mike amazing work! Thanks for being such an important part of the fediverse.

Mike McCue

@evan Thanks for what you helped create, Evan. Truly amazing to see it actually working.

Alessio :linux:

@mike @evan this is ABSOLUTELY great, congratulations to you and all the team, itโ€™s amazing the amount of good things Flipboard has been implementing on top of ActivityPub

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@mike Before too many in the Fediverse jump onto the #Flipboard bandwagon you might want to take a look at the summary of their terms of service: tosdr.org/en/service/3534

Chief problems for me are the fact they gather and store data of non-users, they gather location data, they sell that to third-parties for reasons not related to their service, they buy data about you from third-parties, they force binding arbitration, they limit liability to ludicrous levels.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

@mike Before too many in the Fediverse jump onto the #Flipboard bandwagon you might want to take a look at the summary of their terms of service: tosdr.org/en/service/3534

Chief problems for me are the fact they gather and store data of non-users, they gather location data, they sell that to third-parties for reasons not related to their service, they buy data about you from third-parties, they force binding arbitration, they limit liability to ludicrous levels.

Mike McCue

@dansup Thanks Dan! Next up is finishing our #activitypub integration such that all Flipboard users can follow anyone on Pixelfed. I can't wait to feature your best users to ours.

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