Mike McCue
I'm so excited about federating #Flipboard to the #Fediverse! We are getting closer every day. I just recently saw a demo from our engineering team of a Flipboard account being fully federated and followable from #Mastodon. Now we need to interpret all the engagement signals (commenting, favoriting, etc) properly. This includes designing what Flipboard users should see when they click on Mastodon users who reply to them and vice versa. A bunch more to do but we are making serious progress. 15 comments
Mike McCue
@thekenyeung That's a great question Ken! There are really two efforts underway. One is to federate Flipboard. The other is to . . .  
Mastodon Migration
@mike Wonderful news. This is what a real, responsible corporate federation initiative roll out looks like.  
Colin Devroe
@mike don’t feel obligated to do it all at once. Start simple and iterate quickly. Perhaps that is already the approach you’re taking. If so 👏
Mike McCue
@cdevroe Good advice. We are indeed looking for ways to stage this work in phases but that has proven harder than we thought. Seems like federation is an all or nothing proposition from our vantage point.
Colin Devroe
@mike You’re likely more correct than me since you’re spending the time on it. I think Threads has been a recent good example of shipping what you have and shipping often. We will see how they handle that release cadence with federation. Or, if they do!  
Gabriele Pollara
@mike this sounds great - thanks for a proper preview of what you're trying to achieve. Should serve as a template for other companies to both run their own service and interoperate with the #Fediverse, hopefully in a mutually beneficial way. Many exciting opportunities ahead... 👏
0x1C3B00DA
what about the rest of the fediverse? If you're just testing against mastodon, then you're mastodon-compatible not fediverse compatible.  |
Gregory's Server
@mike truly exciting work.