The Washington Post's non-endorsement in the U.S. election may have led to a mass exodus of subscribers (250,000 according to @npr), but that's been a boon to many other news organizations. Nieman Lab says The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record, twice, while the Philadelphia Inquirer had its best ever week for new subscriptions. The Boston Globe says it also had a subscriber bump. Read more here.
Today, weโre announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.
Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.
Today, weโre announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.
Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.
Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here's our thread of work from newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please read, boost, comment, follow profiles, subscribe, donate money and show your support in any way you can.
Itโs legal for prisoners to unionize โ and it can be invaluable for incarcerated people who are often laboring in difficult conditions without pay. @TexasObserverโs Michelle Pitcher talked to Texans in and out of prisons who are helping empower prisoners to seek better conditions โ including the right to be paid and to refuse work.
โญ๏ธThis Week's Featured Voices on Flipboardโญ๏ธ
It's not just Mastodon and Threads accounts you can discover on Flipboard โ you can also find and follow folks from (to paraphrase the Beatles) across the fediverse! In this week's Community tab, we featured these photography accounts from @pixelfed:
Follow their accounts in the app to see their photography right alongside content from your favorite publishers. If you miss them in the Community tab, you can always search for their accounts on Flipboard.
โญ๏ธThis Week's Featured Voices on Flipboardโญ๏ธ
It's not just Mastodon and Threads accounts you can discover on Flipboard โ you can also find and follow folks from (to paraphrase the Beatles) across the fediverse! In this week's Community tab, we featured these photography accounts from @pixelfed:
Good news! Our universe just got bigger โ now you can follow and interact with profiles from @Mastodon, @threads and other federated social services on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to follow @georgetakei, @taylorlorenz, @potus and more. See posts from the fediverse alongside content from your favorite publishers.
Good news! Our universe just got bigger โ now you can follow and interact with profiles from @Mastodon, @threads and other federated social services on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to follow @georgetakei, @taylorlorenz, @potus and more. See posts from the fediverse alongside content from your favorite publishers.
We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building #Threads. That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:
We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building #Threads. That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:
What does it mean to federate your Flipboard profile? In the simplest terms, it means that whatever you curate (aka share) on Flipboard will be "syndicated" out to the fediverse with no extra effort. @miaq tests it out and breaks it down.
FediForum 2024 is almost here! Flipboard CEO @mike catches up with conference co-organizer and Dazzle Labs CEO @J12t to get a taste of top-of-mind topics for fediverse stewards, including how this space can cross the chasm into the mainstream. Itโs a new episode of Dot Social, the first podcast about the open social web.
FediForum 2024 is almost here! Flipboard CEO @mike catches up with conference co-organizer and Dazzle Labs CEO @J12t to get a taste of top-of-mind topics for fediverse stewards, including how this space can cross the chasm into the mainstream. Itโs a new episode of Dot Social, the first podcast about the open social web.
A new episode of Dot Social, the first podcast about the open social web, is out! In it, Flipboard CEO @mike chats with ActivityPub co-author @evan about what the protocol unlocks for builders and entrepreneurs, how open-source social networks change our relationships to content and each other, and why any of this matters at all. Learn more and take a listen!
Our CEO, @mike just launched a new podcast series titled "Dot Social" to explore the evolution of the internet and how new open standards, like #ActivityPub, can forever change the web and the world of social media.
Our CEO, @mike just launched a new podcast series titled "Dot Social" to explore the evolution of the internet and how new open standards, like #ActivityPub, can forever change the web and the world of social media.
i am in there for some minutes because i like the fediverse. and then for my taste its too much time about bluesky and threads who are not part of the #fediverse at all.
After all, that guy created over half a dozen federated projects, three of which are still active: Friendica from 2010, before Diaspora* even, Hubzilla which started life in 2012 and the actually nameless code repository commonly referred to as (streams) last year. He is behind three open federation protocols, DFRN, Zot and Nomad. And he invented nomadic identity as early as 2011.
After all, that guy created over half a dozen federated projects, three of which are still active: Friendica from 2010, before Diaspora* even, Hubzilla which started life in 2012 and the actually nameless code repository commonly referred to as (streams) last year. He is behind
Hi, great news, added to @podverse , I see in the web that the show has transcripts[1], but aren't available in the feed [2].
Does simplecast support the Podcasting 2.0 transcript tag in the feed? so we can have the transcript as subs in the app. That really helps for people that are non native English speakers, and for accessibility.
Hi, great news, added to @podverse , I see in the web that the show has transcripts[1], but aren't available in the feed [2].
Does simplecast support the Podcasting 2.0 transcript tag in the feed? so we can have the transcript as subs in the app. That really helps for people that are non native English speakers, and for accessibility.
Say hello to our new @ArtPhotosDesk, where weโll be curating the tremendous artistic talent on #Mastodon and beyond, as well as information about key developments and people in creative fields.
Itโs the latest โDeskโ to join the four we launched in April โ @NewsDesk, @TechDesk, @CultureDesk & @ScienceDesk. Each of these human-curated accounts is designed to help you discover the best of whatโs being shared on the open social web.
Say hello to our new @ArtPhotosDesk, where weโll be curating the tremendous artistic talent on #Mastodon and beyond, as well as information about key developments and people in creative fields.
Itโs the latest โDeskโ to join the four we launched in April โ @NewsDesk, @TechDesk, @CultureDesk & @ScienceDesk. Each of these human-curated accounts is designed to help you discover the best of whatโs being shared on the open social web.
You can follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon โ that's the beauty of federated social media! If you want to see more photography in your feed, you'll enjoy these #FollowFriday picks.
Good news for everyone here who uses Flipboard on Android: you can now connect your Mastodon account and flip through feeds.
Besides seeing posts from Mastodon feeds, you can also boost, like and reply to them from within the Flipboard app. You can also add content from Mastodon to your Flipboard Magazines, and vice versa: share content from Flipboard with your followers on Mastodon.
Good news for everyone here who uses Flipboard on Android: you can now connect your Mastodon account and flip through feeds.
Besides seeing posts from Mastodon feeds, you can also boost, like and reply to them from within the Flipboard app. You can also add content from Mastodon to your Flipboard Magazines, and vice versa: share content from Flipboard with your followers on Mastodon.
@Flipboard is there a whitelist on which servers it can login to? I can't get it to use my private instance, it doesn't even try to load the login screen. It just immediately says "We are unable to login to this mastodon instance. Please check that the provided hostname is correct."