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 How will great journalism be discovered in a world where SEO is dying, social media is fragmenting, and AI slop is everywhere? I asked two of the most savvy people in the publishing world @jasonkoebler and @ben on the latest episode of Dot Social. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on our #PeerTube instance here: Flipboard.social is now running the latest Mastodon 4.3 release. @Gargron and team have taken the experience to a whole new level of usefulness, usability and control. I especially like that journalists can now link their articles directly to their fediverse profile. As X continues to disdain journalists, Mastodon is helping to support their work. Check out all the details here:  Thank you! It's wonderful, magnificent. Crazy. The For You feed is the root cause for so many of the ills in social media. The idea that “AI slop” will be injected as a test in people’s feeds in the coming months is another reason why the fediverse is more important than ever.   @mike Saw a few folks starting to see this in their feeds and it's as creepy and terrifying as you think it is, especially when you don't know it's coming.  So excited about the Social Web Foundation (@swf)! @evanprodromou and team will make the #fediverse more interoperable, foster more developer collaboration, inspire more innovation and help more people see the benefit of the social web. Honored to be part of this.  It’s been a year and a few months since we stood up our Mastodon instance. What an awesome experience this has been. Makes me appreciate the many instance admins out there in the fediverse. Kudos to everyone who has helped host and moderate their part of the fediverse over the years. The tech is the tool but you are the soul.  @mike Thought I would ask, is there anyway Podcasts hosts can work with Flipboard?
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 @mike Congratulations, Mike! We're already spreading the word.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flipboard-fediverse-following/  @mike Each person/account shows up as a separate magazine, right? Is there an easy way to combine them? Hello fediverse. Today we federated 63 awesome local publications like @SunSentinel, @Gothamist and @AustinMonitor. Local news is critical to the communities we live in and so we're excited and grateful to help bring some of the best local publications to the fediverse. You can learn more here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-brings-local-news-to-the-fediverse/   Thanks @mike for having me on the podcast, and just in time for #FediForum! Good conversation, I had fun!! P.S. Everybody listen to the other episodes as well, Mike has been hosting some really good conversations with smart and knowledgeable people discussing the Fediverse. A thread on some tenets regarding open systems I feel compelled to relay: - It’s extremely hard for open to ever compete with closed. It almost never succeeds. - Every now and then open is given a chance due to unprecedented external events or pressures. - In the rare event that open gains momentum, any actor can adopt it. That’s the point. - The actors who adopt open will inevitably range from good to indifferent to bad. 1/ - There need to be mechanisms to prevent the bad actors from screwing things up, to reward the good actors, and to educate the indifferent so they appreciate their new found openness. - Most people outside the tech industry don’t understand open and aren’t motivated to switch to something just because it’s open. - If open looks and feels the same as closed, closed will win. - If open is more confusing than closed, closed will win. 2/ - If those who have been working on open revert to closed in the name of preventing bad actors, closed will win. - If open wins we get things like the web. Imperfect but far greater for humanity than most everyone being online via AOL. - We’re at a precious moment in time for the fediverse. When it comes to social media, open has a real chance right now. And closed is on the ropes. Let’s not blow it. One of the fascinating things we are all learning together is what happens as different networks with the same users federate into the Fediverse. I curate content about my interests into magazines on Flipboard. I post and converse about tech on Mastodon. I post photos I’m proud of on PixelFed. There are 3 dimensions of me you can follow in the fediverse. Publishers, creators, et al will be multi-dimensional too and will use different services in the fediverse to engage around those dimensions.
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 The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate. We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.
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@mike Question: If corporations implement Activity Pub, does that mean they are providing “Algorithms" to filter the home feed according to user signals (and their advertisers “legitimate" interests)?  Sounds good, but what's the plan for handling the fallout of Meta slurping in the whole social graph of Mastodon and using it for their own nefarious purposes? @mike Sure looks to me like the battlefield tactics of a ruthless monopolistic megacorporation, but who knows, maybe they're nice and cuddly and good people actually? Every now and then, technologists are able to translate their strongly held beliefs into action for the benefit of society. Sometimes these actions result in new features, apps or platforms but it's especially powerful when this happens at the protocol level. In the latest episode of Dot Social I talk with @evan about how he helped get #ActivityPub started, how it's going, and what he hopes for next. Check it out here. https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-evan-prodromou/ While I personally stopped tweeting in May, it was clear that now was the time for Flipboard to stop tweeting as well. This is a sad outcome given that Twitter was the platform we got started on in 2010 and I was a board member there with Jack, Ev and Dick. But that Twitter is gone now. And the future is the open social web. The centralized, walled garden model naturally leads to building everything into one product, vertically integrating all features in the name of user and partner lock in. Elon's everything app is a predictable progression of this thinking. Meanwhile the decentralized model naturally leads to many specialized products connected together to satisfy far more use cases than any one product could ever do. It's like the web vs. AOL all over again and my money is on the web.
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 @mike The web could become for 'the masses', and X for a select few who want access to select service and quality, and the ones aspiring to have those. @mike the centralized model is about forming a monopoly. Open allows for options and alternatives. It’s better for users and society.
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 @mike @andypiper he still has a twitter account "No Longer Engaging" doesn’t seem to mean too much  @mike @jaredwhite Archive link for those without a subscription: https://archive.ph/yKbsA  @mike Interesting to see the various tipping points that have been floated on a semi-regular basis for the past year It’s also interesting to see which writers, reporters, and columnists actually deactivate 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.
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 @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... 👏 what about the rest of the fediverse? If you're just testing against mastodon, then you're mastodon-compatible not fediverse compatible.  There are so many cool things about mastodon but the best thing by far is the people who are here. 12
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I LOVE IT SO MUCH how you've fully embraced #peertube !!!! Great interview once again, and thanks for promoting these #fediverse projects:)
It is an amazing endorsement and in many ways legitimizes all the work that these contributors are doing, and more importantly introduces them to people that would otherwise never hear about them.
@mike @jasonkoebler @ben @Flipboard Great episode. I really drew a lot from the conversation.