It's a beautiful, highly curated walled garden filled with content from the worlds best publishers and creators curated by Flipboard's editorial team as well as our community of magazine makers.
But it's still a walled garden. Today that begins to change.
We've moved four of our most popular #curation desks into the Fediverse for you to enjoy.
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:
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.
For over a decade, @Flipboard's in-house editorial team has been curating the world’s best journalism around the clock. But to access this curation, you had to use the Flipboard app or visit flipboard.com.
Now we’ve decided to federate our Flipboard editorial profiles and their related Magazines in order to make our collections available to everyone on Mastodon and other Fediverse networks.
Here's what we're up to. Would love your feedback!
What does it mean to federate your Flipboard profile? In the simplest terms, it means that whatever you curate (aka share) on Flipboard will be "syndicated" out to the fediverse with no extra effort. @miaq tests it out and breaks it down.
It seems like the expectation is that they are the same, but that does not appear to be the case. It could be just the differences between the accounts generating the posts that I'm commenting on, but it feels like in general, comments (even well-written, lengthy responses with #hashtags) disappear into the wind, while any basic post, directly submitted to the stream gets #engagement.
Does someone have a "who sees your post" flowchart for Masto that includes #comments?
If I understand correctly, there is no residual #information on user and/or post #Quality being used in the algorithm?
This also has relevance for discussions about intra-network content #curation, #factcheck, #reputation, and other #SocialMedia#community functions that could be getting shortchanged by the current protocols & other norms.
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.
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.
When it comes to feed #curation, nobody beats a talented human. Thus, I'm a huge advocate for features which help you (a human) refine the set of accounts (other humans) you follow + unfollow. All to find a signal/noise sweet spot where your mutual interests overlap most closely.
Today's example is a suggestion posted to bsky, but since there are fewer client devs there, maybe it'll catch traction more quickly here. Some variant on a private dislike score.
Tim Pierce @topaz.unchi.org What I'm envisioning is something like a "dislike" button, which wouldn't publish results to anyone else but would adjust the score I've assigned to that user. Scores could appear, say, on the user's profile. It would be integrated into the regular social media experience.
Doctor Memory @blank.org This is brilliant. Somewhere around -15 the interface should auto-hide the posts "post from a low-scoring account, click to show". Anything that hits -50 is automatically fully blocked for your own good.
Tim Pierce @topaz.unchi.org Yes! Let users set thresholds for "automatically mute" and "automatically block".
I am starting a trend.
I propose that we share #flipboard#magazines from users that you like and learn from in this space. Let’s use the hashtag #flipshare, we can do this on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This way we can support @Flipboard other users. I’ll share someone’s magazine tomorrow. I look forward to yours. #curation#promotion#creator#share
Our social media feeds are shaped by algorithms, and that means the things we see, experience and like in the real world are too. The New Yorker's @chaykak has written about this "algorithmication" in "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture," which will be out in January 2024. @miaq interviewed him for @Flipboard's podcast, The Art of Curation. Here's the episode and some info about what they discussed.
Modding isn’t specific to PC Gaming only. There are entire communities and specialists dedicated to the development of Romhacks for old console games. Today we are looking at the Genesis / Mega Drive system.
I use @flipboard for the following reasons. 1. I enjoy the content it serves. 2. It helps me broaden my horizons. 3. I enjoy making magazines that matter and I take great pride in curating each and every one of them. 4. I love the community. I hope #flipboard stays the same as always, providing good and educational content for all. #reading#learning#education#curation#flipboardusergroup
What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image with and the whole post body just the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance (empty menus and all that...). It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life. The fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis#Enshitternet#ContentFarms#Curation#Movies#Cinemastodon#Film@film
Genesis Mods and Romhacks Collection (thingsiplay.game.blog)
Modding isn’t specific to PC Gaming only. There are entire communities and specialists dedicated to the development of Romhacks for old console games. Today we are looking at the Genesis / Mega Drive system.