Flipboard, the social magazine app for the Web 2.0 era, is reinventing itself to take advantage of new commitments to the open social web, creating a social We are deepening our relationship with the network fediverse. , and eventually Instagram threads and the like appeared. The company announced Thursday that it is expanding fediverse integration to an additional 400 Flipboard creators and introducing fediverse notifications in the Flipboard app itself.
The latter will allow Flipboard users to see new followers and other activity on the content they share on Fediverse directly in the Flipboard app. This follows last year's introduction of his Mastodon integration within the app to replace Twitter, as well as support for ActivityPub, a social networking protocol that powers open source decentralized social networks, including Mastodon and others.
In February, Flipboard announced that it would also start adding creators and their social magazines to Fediverse. This means a curated magazine of links and other social posts that creators typically share within the Flipboard app will now be able to reach a wider audience. By sharing a creator's posts and links with the broader Fediverse, Flipboard's publisher partners get their own native ActivityPub feed, which Mastodon users and users of other federated social apps can share with the feed. I made it possible to find it. His initial commitment to the federation began with 1,000 copies of his Flipboard magazine, and he has now added another 400 copies. According to Flipboard, a total of more than 11,000 selected Flipboard magazines are currently available to federated social networking users.
“This is a big step toward fully integrating our platforms,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said in the announcement. “In addition to making curated content available on Flipboard, we also enable two-way communication so users can see their activity and participate in the Fediverse community. Knowing that my curation was reaching new people who might share my interests made it even more exciting.”
The expanded set of accounts includes public accounts that feature one or two public journals with curated activity in the past 30 days that do not violate reliability or security. They also participate in his Flipboard community program. Accounts will be notified of the integration status via email.
Although Flipboard works to federate users' accounts by default, users can “unfederate” by turning off the “federate” button in Flipboard settings.
In addition to the newly federated magazines, Flipboard is bringing a more integrated federated experience to its app.In the version released on Thursday (ver. 4.3.25), Flipboard users will be able to[フォロー中]You'll now see new followers from the Fediverse in your tab, and your Flipboard notifications will include reactions and conversations from the Fediverse.
This notification window will now contain three sections: Replies, Activity, and News. In Reply, users can view and reply to posts from both her Flipboard and fediverse users, as well as other fediverse @mentions. When they respond, that response is also sent back to fediverse, making Flipboard more of a fediverse client app than before. Meanwhile, the “Activities'' tab shows the user's likes, follows, and boosts (the Fediverse's interpretation of retweets), along with his other Flipboard activities. The News section (previously called Content) will feature the latest news and other articles recommended by the Flipboard editorial team.
The company had already begun curating content for Fedverse users across a small number of “news desks” (dedicated Fedverse accounts) that direct users to interesting articles and links across topics. In addition to our broader news desk, we also have news desks that specialize in technology, culture, and science. This existing curation will help fuel the newly rebranded News section of the Flipboard app.