Gregory's Server@Flipboard's ActivityPub push evolves the platform away from being an app-centric service to something almost akin to being on a higher plane.
Okay, admittedly that sounds prophetic and like its vaporware, but Flipboard has spent the past decade showing curation works, but now it's redefining that for a social world that really has seen massive upheaval. This ain't your 2000s social.
It presents a great opp for publisher's audience development teams too (cont'd).
https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209
For publishers, @Flipboard's ActivityPub deal could let them take published content, flip it into Magazines, and then have it be pushed to their fediverse-supported apps.
I'd hope that Flipboard would have flip comments be the social post and the article be embedded link. And it'd be great if there was some tie-in back to Flipboard's Magazine to encourage growth. I guess @Techmeme's tweets pre-Elon is a great example.
And since Flipboard is pro-publisher, traffic goes to the news sites.