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The fediverse just scram a little large today asFlipboardhas now launched over 1,000 of its social magazine across the decentralised societal WWW , earmark its curators and publishers to reach unexampled audience . The newsworthiness trace the magazine app ’s Decemberannouncementthat it would commence to integrate directly with the fediverse , or the decentralized social vane that includes X contender Mastodon , Pixelfed , and other apps .
After sensing a variety in the counseling that social media was headed , Flipboard last year dropped support for Twitter / X in its app , which today allows substance abuser to curate subject matter from around the web in “ cartridge ” that are portion out with other readers . In Twitter ’s place , the society espouse decentralized social media , and last May becamethe first app to support Bluesky , Mastodon , and Pixelfed(an open source Instagram competition ) all in one place .
While those first integrations allowed users to take , like , respond , and post to their favourite apps from within Flipboard ’s app , those interactions were made potential through genus Apis . recently last year , Flipboard said it was also add together financial support for ActivityPub , the networking communications protocol that power the fediverse , within its own app . Initially , this would permit select accounts to be ascertainable and followed by millions of user of decentralised social apps , let in Mastodon .
Today , Flipboard says it has federated 1,000 powder magazine curated by the publishers it start essay with in December , as well as 20 new publishing spouse who have bring together the new exertion . The magazine publisher span a range of topics , include news , lifestyle content , and local journalism . Where before , users could only accompany these magazines within Flipboard ’s app , they now each have their own native ActivityPub feeds that allow them to be discover by user on Mastodon and other federalise social apps .
The company explains that let user to follow magazines instead of other account mean they can more closely tail their particular interest . While a substance abuser may be concerned in the photography that someone posts , they may not require to follow their office about politics or sports . Flipboard ’s magazines , however , tend to be thematic in nature , allowing users to range news , article , and societal posts cite a particular topic , likehealthy feeding , climate tech , national security , and more .
commence today , users can adopt these specific interest by follow their provender within their preferred federate app , like Mastodon . enter publishers include Smithsonian , Bloomberg Green , Frommer ’s , The Intercept , Real Simple , Refinery29 , Mashable , Medium and others .
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With the initial test radical now integrated with ActivityPub , Flipboard say that the programme is to get started generating the remaining participating and public conservator and their cartridge holder . The company plans to begin this appendage in March but will offer an opt - out to anyone who wants to keep their cartridge clip on Flipboard alone .
“ I conceive that curation is core to provide people with a high quality and inspiring societal media experience and I ’m unrestrained to commence bringing thoughtfully curated feeds to the fediverse , ” pronounce Flipboard CEO Mike McCue in anannouncement .
Flipboard is n’t the only social app to embrace ActivityPub . InstagramThreads , another X rival , is make for on its ActivityPub integration . WordPress , Medium , andMozillahave also entered the fediverse , the former via apluginthatallows WordPress web log to publish to the decentralised societal web .
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