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Mike McCue

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. Youโ€™ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds.

Check the screenshots below and read this post to learn more:

about.flipboard.com/fediverse/
13 August at 16:49 | Open on flipboard.social
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BeAware :fediverse:

@mike woohoo!

Great work Mike! Faster and more reliable than Threads!

Very admirable.

13 August at 16:52 | Open on social.beaware.live
Doctor Popular

@mike 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).

13 August at 16:57 | Open on mastodon.social
Mike McCue

@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.

13 August at 17:12 | Open on flipboard.social
Sam Sethi :pc2red: โ‚

@mike @docpop wow Mike that is huge. Congrats going to try it for myself.

13 August at 17:16 | Open on podcastindex.social
FediThing ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

@docpop @mike

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?

13 August at 17:40 | Open on social.chinwag.org
Salvo Miccichรฉ

@mike

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!

13 August at 17:05 | Open on flipboard.social
We Distribute
Dan Neuman

@mike Each person/account shows up as a separate magazine, right? Is there an easy way to combine them?

13 August at 17:25 | Open on ottawa.place
Mike McCue

@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!

13 August at 17:28 | Open on flipboard.social
Dan Neuman

@mike 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).

13 August at 17:33 | Open on ottawa.place
FediThing ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

@mike @dan613

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?

13 August at 17:42 | Open on social.chinwag.org
Eugen Rochko
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