Mike McCue
Hello Fediverse. Today we’re announcing the addition of PixelFed and Bluesky to our social web integrations on Flipboard. Now you can see posts from Mastodon, PixelFed, Bluesky and, of course, Flipboard all in the same user experience. You can favorite, reply to, and boost any post. You can follow any user. You can explore any hashtag. And you can post text, photos and links to any timeline. Bluesky is available today for Flipboard on iOS and Android. PixelFed will be live in a few days. 18 comments
Mike McCue
These beta API integrations provide an early glimpse into the interoperability possible on the social web as more services are built by developers. The next step is to integrate at the protocol level via #ActivityPub so that users of #Mastodon, @Pixelfed and #Flipboard can seamlessly follow and engage with each other. While Bluesky does not yet use ActivityPub, they seem very committed to federation so I hope there will eventually be a way to resolve this.
M. Grégoire
@mike Thanks for working to support different platforms. Interoperability (preferably with open standards) is key to making the Internet as useful and amusing as it can be.  
JanetteSpeyer
@mike ok I’ll join @pixelfed then. I like the different content available for curation on these feeds. Thanks for exposing us Flipboard users to new publishing experiences.
JanetteSpeyer
@mike does Pixelfed have a Flipboard dedicated server or shall I pick a random one like pixelfed.social? #pixelfed #flipboard
Mike McCue
@jan At the moment these are all API level integrations. We are integrating #ActivityPub to do a full protocol level integration in the coming months. Then users on Mastodon, Pixelfed and Flipboard will be able to seamlessly follow and engage with each other.
Philip Kreißel
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Mike McCue
@pkreissel Yes, we need to make that easier to find once we exit beta. Re: read/write access, that so you can post. At the moment I don't think there's a way to do more granular permissions with these APIs but I'll look into it.
Philip Kreißel
@mike it should be possible. I tried it and most stuff requires less permissions. Also maybe you would like to steal some ideas from my project for ranking: https://github.com/pkreissel/foryoufeed
Tristan Louis
Apparently, there's a bug in the Android client as it seems to crash (on a Samsung S20+) when you put in mastodon.social as the instance. Otherwise, great job!
Flipboard Community Support
@TNLNYC @mike @Flipboard Seems there is a bug and we are on it! Thanks for your patience.
Luis142
@mike do you need to connect a personal mastodon/Bluesky/pixelfed account to your Flipboard account or will Flipboard automatically create profiles for these platforms or did I completely misunderstand this feature, because to me interacting means fully being able to interact with people on the fediverse |
Gregory's Server
Special thanks to @dansup for building @pixelfed and making it easy for developers to build with it. I also love that Pixelfed is 100% #ActivityPub based making it seamlessly interoperable with #Mastodon.