Flipboard

Flipboard, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to fediverse

It’s #NewstodonFriday! It’s been another busy week for the many newsrooms who have an active presence in the #fediverse, and we’re highlighting their work in the thread below. If you like what you see, follow the profiles and boost their stories.

If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments.
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#News #Newstodon #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday

Flipboard, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to fediverse

Think of a publisher, and there's a good chance they'll have a Flipboard account. Now, we're in the process of federating them. Publishers — like just about everyone we know — have a hard time getting their heads around the fediverse and what it means to federate your Flipboard account, so @jejord has written this blogpost. In it, she explains the fediverse, what Flipboard federation looks like, the value of our Magazine feeds, and why we think all this is important. "The fediverse is potentially the One Ecosystem to Rule Them All, and is estimated to grow to 170M users by the end of 2024," writes Jessica.

https://about.flipboard.com/business/publisher-federation-flipboard/

#Federation #Fediverse #Flipboard #ActivityPub #Publishers #Media #Journalism #FediCurious

Flipboard, 6 days ago to fediverse

People on ActivityPub-powered platforms like Mastodon, and Bluesky, which uses the AT Protocol, can now follow each other, see posts, like, reply, and repost them, thanks to the work of @snarfed.org@snarfed.org, creator of Bridgy Fed. @Sarahp interviewed him for Tech Crunch about the future of bridging networks, how to bridge your account from the fediverse to Bluesky, and what to expect when you do.

https://flip.it/nv5pg7

#Fediverse #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #Bluesky #Bridgyfed #ActivityPub

Flipboard, 8 days ago to Canada

Canadian legend Jann Arden loves Flipboard! Here's a clip of her talking on her podcast about how she's using it to plan her mudlarking trip to the U.K.

Full episode and transcript available here: https://www.jannardenpod.com/no-crying-on-tiktok/

#Canada #Podcast #JannArden #Flipboard

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Flipboard, 9 days ago to journalism

Local news is crucial to democracy, and it's disappearing — according to a new book by Steven Brill, excerpted in @Semafor, approximately twenty-two hundred papers and their websites went out of business between 2005 and 2021. That's created a vacuum into which "pink-slime" sites have poured. Brill writes about these sites that present themselves as legitimate publishers but are created to boost specific candidates and secretly financed by partisan funders, Democrats and Republicans alike.

https://flip.it/A4LDyh

#Media #Journalism #Publishing #USPolitics #LocalNews

Flipboard, 11 days ago to fediverse

It’s #NewstodonFriday — such a shame it’s been a slow news week! Just to refresh your memories, this is a day to feature work from newsrooms with an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the (long!) thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments below.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

Flipboard, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to fediverse

In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.

"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/federation-timeline/

#Federation #Fediverse #Flipboard #FediCurious #ActivityPub #Publishing #Media #Technology #MastodonMigration #Mastodon

Flipboard, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to fediverse

Today is #NewstodonFriday, a day to feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you're a journo or newsroom that we don't know about (or there's someone that should be on our radar), please comment below.

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#Media #Journalism #News #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

Flipboard, 21 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to random

🫖 During our outage this morning, people attempting to connect with Flipboard.Social found that we were declaring ourselves to be a teapot. Here's the origin of the unusual internet error message. Tell us, were you familiar with it?

https://flip.it/oanxmn

#Flipboard #Teapot #ErrorMessage #Outage #Oops

Flipboard, 22 days ago to random

Hi folks, you may have noticed that we had an outage for a couple of hours this morning on our app, website and instance. We are back online now and hopefully things should be back to normal, but please bear with us if there are any issues for the next while.

#Flipboard

Flipboard, 26 days ago to news

There’s a new playbook being written right now when it comes to the future of social media. The early-mover advantage is still in effect, and there’s a lot to figure out. Gone are opaque algorithms and the whims of any single company.

The fediverse represents a chance for quality journalism to shine again.

We talked to two leaders at fedi-forward publications — @TheConversationUS's @BostonAbrams, and @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler — about why they’re investing in the open social web, what they’ve learned so far, and their advice for other publishers just getting started.

https://medium.com/fedi-curious/lessons-on-the-road-to-reviving-journalism-via-the-fediverse-01b3748cacc5

#Flipboard #News #Media #Journalism #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse

Flipboard, 26 days ago to Podcast

@molly0xfff is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical about the future of the web. Hear why this researcher, writer and software engineer thinks so in this fascinating conversation with @mike:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/molly-white/

Catch up on past episodes of the podcast in Mike’s Storyboard collection:

https://flipboard.com/@mike/dot-social-the-future-of-the-social-web-3r0pl8ge5dju9965

To learn more about what Flipboard's doing in the fediverse, sign up here:

http://about.flipboard.com/a-new-wave

#Flipboard #DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #Federation

Flipboard, 1 month ago to fediverse

Flipboard curators have seen over 100,000 boosts, likes and replies from people across the fediverse since April 11. Given this positive signal from the community, today we're federating another 100 accounts representing more than 2,500 Magazines about everything from climate to culture. Read more here:

https://flipboard.medium.com/over-100-000-social-interactions-from-the-fediverse-to-flipboard-f76465dee4f8

If you’re an active Flipboard curator and you would like to federate your account, let us know by applying here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PB69W6L

And if you’re still getting up to speed on what the fediverse is and does, please check out our Fedi Curious Magazine:

https://flipboard.com/@mia/fedi-curious-fdg527fez

#Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #FediCurious

Flipboard, 1 month ago to fediverse

When he built a bridge to connect Bluesky to Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered platforms, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org started a new chapter for the fediverse. The software engineer opens up to @mike about his rollercoaster ride in the latest episode of Dot Social:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ryan-barrett/

#BridgyFed #Fediverse #Bluesky #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #Flipboard #SocialMedia

Flipboard, 1 month ago to fediverse

If you're still using Substack for your newsletter and want to migrate to Ghost, which has announced that it will join the fediverse this year, here's a step-by-step guide by @wes. It covers costs, what you'll need, setting up Mailgun and Cloudflare, how to move over your posts and subscribers and numerous other helpful details.

https://flip.it/udKkAr

#Fediverse #Ghost #Substack #ActivityPub #Newsletter #SubstackMigration

Flipboard, 1 month ago to Sports

Sports fans of Mastodon: We know you're out there! ⚽ 🏀 🏈

Are you looking for more athletics content in your feed? Here are some great feeds to follow (we call these topical collections Magazines):

(U.S.) Football from CBS Sports: @football

Soccer (non-U.S. football) from ESPN: @soccer

Women's Sports from Flipboard's Sports Desk: @women

(U.S.) Basketball from Bleacher Report: @basketball

MMA from ESPN: @mma

The Player's Tribune: @the

(U.S.) College Football from CBS Sports: @college

Major League Baseball from Flipboard's Sports Desk: @major

Golf from ESPN: @golf

NHL (North American hockey) from Flipboard's Sports Desk: @nhl

#FollowFriday #Sports #Football #Athletics #Basketball #Baseball #Hockey

Flipboard, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to journalism

Some good news from media land! Satire outlet The Onion is under new management, with one of the owners being Jeff Lawson, co-founder of Twilio, the cloud communications firm with a market value of $11 billion. “The Onion is an institution, a national treasure, and we need it,” says Lawson, the new chairman. “But its success is based on something different than most media companies. The Onion has been stifled, along with most of the internet, by byzantine cookie dialogs, paywalls, bizarro belly fat ads, and clickbait. The Internet sucks, and it’s time we made it better.” The new CEO will be Ben Collins, the reporter who previously covered disinformation, extremism and the internet for NBC. He says that the plan is to work with the union, keep all the writers, and "make it so they can hopefully get paid a little bit more money." Here's more from Deadline.

https://flip.it/UbX61O

#Media #Journalism #Satire #TheOnion #Internet

Flipboard, 1 month ago to fediverse

Threads is the largest player so far to adopt #ActivityPub, and as @mike says, “The implications are huge.”

Why is Threads doing this? How is the team working with the community? How are they thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
In the newest episode of @dot_social, Mike digs in with @rklambo, Director of Product Management, and @pcottle, Software Engineer. Check it out in the fediverse on PeerTube or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. More details here:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/threads-dot-social/

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Federation #MastodonMigration #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Flipboard

Flipboard, 1 month ago to threads

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@snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #Federation #MastodonMigration #ActivityPub #Meta #Threads #MetaThreads #BridgyFed #Web3

Flipboard, 1 month ago to sustainability

In honor of Earth Day, here are our #FollowFriday picks for green-living inspiration from the Flipboard community.

Each of these followable feeds, which we call Magazines, is curated by people interested in sustainability.

Following a Magazine feed in the fediverse is like following a profile, but instead of seeing everything the person shares, you can follow just their posts about the topics you care about.

Inspiration for building your backyard oasis and sustainable living tips by the creator of Green Garden Cottage —
@home

Stories about homesteading, nomadic living, off-grid living, and rural living from one of Flipboard's most active curators —
@rogue

Sustainable food expert, Darryl Benjamin, shares news about the farm-to-table movement —
@farm

Tips and resources for growing a home garden by the creator of Sigrun's Sustainable Kitchen —
@sigrun

Inspiring stories about keeping Mother Earth healthy
@mother

#FollowFriday #Sustainability #SustainableLiving #EarthDay #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse

Flipboard, 1 month ago to news

We've received a few questions lately from the community inquiring about what Flipboard is, so we wanted to share a bit about our mission to inform and inspire the world.

Many of you in the fediverse know Flipboard because of our editorial curation on @NewsDesk, @TechDesk, @CultureDesk, @ScienceDesk and @ArtPhotosDesk.

You might also be familiar with our moves to federate our platform.

We are also an award-winning app/website where publishers, creators, and community members curate content about topics ranging from politics to philosophy. If you want to check it out, download it here, follow topics that interest you, and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you.

https://appdownload.flipboard.com/

#Flipboard #News #Tech #Science #Culture #Art #Curation #Apps #iPhone #Android

Flipboard, 1 month ago to news

An organization that represents more than 2,000 publishers has written to federal agencies, urging them to launch an investigation into Google after it began removing links to the sites of California-based news outlets. Google announced on Friday that it would take this action in response to a proposed law that would require tech companies to pay for news content. Here's more from CNN.

https://flip.it/Lsx2XF

#News #Publishing #Media #California #Google #Tech

Flipboard, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to mastodon

Yesterday, we announced our federation of 400 Flipboard curators and curators, so today, we're highlighting just a few you can follow on subjects like food, leadership, basketball, and sustainable food systems.

Allen Westly, technology enthusiast, cybersecurity practitioner, and diversity advocate — @West1118

Brian Fanzo, digital futurist, podcaster and ADHD advocate — @iSocialFanz

Camille Styles, lifestyle writer passionate about plant-based cooking and design and beauty — @CamilleStyles

Christie Vanover, champion pitmaster and creator of Girls Can Grill — @GirlsCanGrill

Daniel Hakimi, style curator and men’s fashion writer — @DanHakimi

Darryl Benjamin, educator and advocate for sustainable food systems — @Kafkaturtle

Janette Speyer, professional marketer passionate about cooking, travel, fashion and connecting the Flipboard community — @JanetteSpeyer

Jennifer Petoff, travel writer and creator of Sidewalk Safari — @sidewalksafari

Jessica Bethel, Los Angeles-based photographer — @4eyedgirl

Ken Yeung, journalist and author of "The AI Economy" newsletter — @thekenyeung

Louisa Moje, pharmacist, fashionista and foodie — @foodpluswords_

Marco Secchi, visual storyteller and photographer — @msecchi

Markus Weber, sustainable agriculture and agtech — @Maakusi

Maurizo Leo, bestselling cookbook author and creator of The Perfect Loaf — @theperfectloaf

Pete Gleason, PhD, professor, psychologist and innovator — @pgleason

Phil McKinney, technologist, author and podcaster — @philmckinney

Scott Kleinberg, OG Flipboarder and proud Apple fanboy — @scottkleinberg

Scott Monty, business leader, executive coach and podcaster — @scottmonty

Tayo Oredola, food writer and creator of Low Carb Africa — @lowcarbafrica

WBB Daily — curator who specializes in women’s basketball, passionate about growing the game — @smrice

Wesley Fryer, STEM educator and media literacy advocate — @wfryer

#FollowFriday #Federation #Flipboard #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #Lifestyle #Technology #Food #Travel #Business

Flipboard, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to fediverse

In December, we started to federate the accounts of some Flipboard publishers and in February, we introduced Magazines to the fediverse. Now, we’re taking two important steps: federating the accounts of 400 creators and expert curators; and enabling two-way communication so that new followers and fediverse activity are visible and actionable in the Flipboard app.

To learn more about this, take a look at our blogpost:

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-federates-11-000-magazines-by-400-creators-and-enthusiasts-82dd94691f74

Find all the handles of our newly federated curators here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/

Thanks so much to everyone who has given feedback on what we’ve done so far. We welcome your thoughts and comments as we continue on our journey to fully federate Flipboard.

#Fediverse #Federation #Flipboard #ActivityPub #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #Curation #MastodonMigration

Flipboard, 2 months ago to threads

Last month, Meta's Threads took its first step into the fediverse. @quillmatiq, aka @quillmatiq took that as his cue to experiment with how his Threads feed would look like on Mastodon. Here's what he discovered about organizing the chaos, different clients (hello @phanpy) and whether he'll cut the Threads cord when federation is complete.

https://flip.it/P_h74r

#Federation #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb