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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. Pixelfed is now live on Flipboard for iOS and Android and it looks great. Excited to see where @dansup takes Pixelfed next! 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.
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 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! @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 The only feature that matters for any social media experience is the people who are on it. I'm amazed at how many technology leaders forget this and get distracted by the underlying tech, protocols, features, etc. Elon is a great example. He thinks he bought a platform. But what he really bought was a community. And of the two, the community has degraded far more than the platform.
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@mike Agreed, although the tech has degraded a fair bit as well. Just look at what he did to the API, not to mention laying off the accessibility team. @mike@flipboard.social That's why I've thrown most of my effort into community building as opposed to pouring over performance metrics, etc. We suffer from being a regional instance so we don't get huge user inflows but our interactions are steadily and consistently rising which is my key metric. Hello fellow Fediversians! What are your favorite @pixelfed accounts to follow? What are your favorite #Friendica accounts or groups to follow?
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 @mike Haven't heard of Flipboard since ...2015?, when it came pre-installed on Samsung devices and first thing user asked is to how to remove it. Now RSS is dead, Twitter is filled with hatred, and Flipboard app itself didn't work (at least in Russia). But Fediverse is able to bring content creators to more people, with more privacy and less restrictions In addition to turning off their API, #Twitter has also inexplicably turned off access for users to sign in to Flipboard and other platforms with Twitter SSO. This is an unacceptable breach of trust between Twitter and their developers and users. Twitter must be held to account here.
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 @mike I'm just in shock over how he's ruining any sort of trust in the system. On top of all the other insanity, choosing to break the oauth logins is just something you can't come back from. It's meant to tie people to your platform. A useful benefit. It's basically as dumb as his plan a while back to block all outgoing URLs.  You mean the "login with twitter" thing? This has the potential of locking people out of their accounts 🤔 After 13 years, #Twitter has made certain you won't be able to see a tweet on #Flipboard ever again. Today Twitter turned off their API integration without regard for Twitter users who enjoyed seeing tweets on their Flipboard. While Twitter is enabling payment for some API access, the approach they've taken is prohibitively expensive, unreliable and frankly untrustworthy. I can't imagine us or anyone else ever relying on Twitter again for anything. Hello Fediverse. Good bye walled gardens.
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 @mike Glad you could make the move to greener pastures, bring over the whole fam! We've just added a key new capability to our Mastodon integration on iOS. You can now follow any Mastodon user, hashtag, or feed directly from your Flipboard. This gives you easy access to feeds you really care about right from your following tab. In addition, posts from those feeds will be prioritized in your For You feed so you are less likely to miss something. Note that we also added feeds for your @mentions as well as your Bookmarks. Here's a screenshot:
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 @mike it will be nice when you do this for #Fediverse instances instead of just mastodon - you're missing out on the majority amount of the available servers and types of media. Also, what about #Android and Web? #tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #Pleroma #Hometown #Calckey #PeerTube #Soapbox #Friendica #Socialhome #Misskey #Mitra #Epicyon #Quanta #Foundkey #Akkoma #WriteFreely #MicroblogPub #FunkWhale #CastoPod #Drupal #WordPress #Plume ⛵ .  @mike @andypiper #Flipboard and #Medium are really pioneering and writing the book on how to integrate Mastodon/Fediverse into their existing apps web apps… Flying back from #SxSW where I evangelized #ActivtyPub, #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. It’s crazy how few people have even heard of this movement and all anyone could talk about was #GenerativeAI. I felt like an eccentric prophet holding a sign with scrawled writing “The end of the walled gardens is nigh” But as many of you on Mastodon already know, the dawn of the open social web is here now and next SXSW is likely to be very different.
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@mike As for the "dawn" all I can say is Keep Fighting! “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass (see also our pattern https://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/sense-struggle) 12
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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