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mike

@mike@flipboard.social

Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@mike

Interests: #Climbing #Backpacking #Photography #Sailing #ActivityPub #Startups #Design

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mike, to fediverse
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Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.

Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.

Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of on our instance or wherever you get your .

https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA

mike, to random
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The antidote to AI destroying the web is to strengthen human connection and to make those connections a fundamental part of the open web. Quickly.

mike,
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@andresmh yes. thankfully!

mike,
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@mike I think Bing is also all-in on AI. We're going to need a totally new way to discover and navigate the web that is fundamentally better than a search engine. I believe trustworthy people recommending quality content to others who share an interest will be a fundamental part of the solution.

mike,
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@opny721 So true. It's be degrading for a long time. AI is a massive accelerant.

mike,
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@uriel @mike Yes I've used it and I think it's where Google and Bing are headed. Perplexity is essentially forcing Google to move much faster. OpenAI will soon release something similar. All paths lead to the same result: subsume all the content on the web in order to satisfy the search on site and minimize the need to link out to the web.

mike, to random
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"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models."

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

mike, to fediverse
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I talk about the in this episode of Technically Optimistic, a terrific podcast by Raffi Krikorian and Emerson Collective. The topic: How to Save Social Media

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technically-optimistic/id1689164209?i=1000654155177

mike, to random
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@caseynewton Love the new Platformer logo.

mike, to random
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He's baaaack.

imdavidpierce, to random

Threads’ moderation system: not doing so hot, y’all

Excited to start ranting and raving about censorship in Installer every week

mike,
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@imdavidpierce at least it was federated!

mike,
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@jedi @imdavidpierce that’s coming soon. We can make fun of him in the meantime.

mike,
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@thisismissem @imdavidpierce Totally. Threads' and Meta's scale are massive so it's hard for them to cover all these cases with a person. I think that's where decentralized moderation like what we see on Mastodon could have a huge advantage, especially if aided by shared moderation lists and ML tools that automatically flag problematic posts to actual people.

darnell, to random
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A Few (More) Fediverse Suggestions For Flipboard 🔛 @darnell (Seize The Day) 📰 https://darnell.day/a-few-more-fediverse-suggestions-for-flipboard?pk_campaign=rss-feed

mike,
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@darnell @darnell Thank you for this super thoughtful summary, Darnell. I really like all these suggestions. Especially the dolphin!

I think there's a decent chance we'll get half of these ideas done in 2024 and the other half in 2025 though not just on our own but as part of a collective effort by multiple parties in the expanding fediverse.

feb, to random

Hi @mike
All Flipboard accounts pretend to be "groups". This is a problem with projects that support real groups. Are you aware of this?

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@feb Flipboard accounts that are individual users are federated as normal accounts. Flipboard magazines are federated as groups because they often have more than one contributor and some have many. Check out my Leica Owners Magazine as an example.

I agree though that the way they display in mastodon could be better. Would love any suggestions you have.

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@feb yes I’m familiar with friendica groups and really like how they work. Flipboard magazines like @leica or @the are also thematic exchanges between people in a group. They can be private or they can be public to enable non-members to follow the things members are posting. This is an important type of group that people really appreciate. It’s also a form of moderation because the group owner can invite whomever they trust to contribute to the group while not sealing it off from the rest of the world.

But let’s come back to your concern so I can understand it better. What specifically is the problem you are pointing out here? Or what specific change do you have in mind that I should consider. If there’s a better approach to this I’m all ears. The last thing I would want to do is make using friendica harder or more confusing.

mike,
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@feb @Tagesspiegel @tagesspiegel Thanks a lot for this helpful summary. I will do exactly as you suggest and play around with this more to see how we should best federate our groups.

arcalinea, to random
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Haven't posted here in a long time, but my Bluesky account is now bridged to the fediverse through @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy !

Follow @jay.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy to see my posts across the bridge

mike,
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@arcalinea @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy @jay.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy great to see your posts on mastodon! One step closer to the open social web. Thank you @snarfed for helping make this possible.

mgsiegler, to random
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10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/03/retro-game-emulator-delta-app-store-ios/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Massive Greatness @massive

mike,
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@mgsiegler @massive so cool to see this happening.

mike, to random
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This interview with @rileytestut by @davidpierce is SO good. Super exciting vision of an App Store powered by developers who are supported with Patreon or similar. This is a really big idea. Also love that Riley has been active in the fediverse since 2018!

https://www.theverge.com/24150467/delta-emulator-apple-app-voice-notes-ai-vergecast

feb, to random German

Guten Morgen..

mike,
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@feb good morning!

mike, to random
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Gotta love how the fediverse is actively banning nazis while Elon is actively unbanning them and Substack does nothing.

mike, to random
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Well, I got my first white supremacist reply from the fediverse after posting an article about Elon from Flipboard.

I reported and blocked the account. I also looked at the instance admin's account and it's clear he's also a white supremacist. So that instance will be blocked on flipboard.com and flipboard.social as well as shared with other instance admins as a problematic instance for them to take action if they also deem appropriate. Took all of 2 minutes to help make the fediverse a bit better for everyone.

And the best thing is that anyone in the fediverse can do this too. Decentralized moderation FTW.

mike,
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@Properganda @mike No definitely don’t take my opinions for fact. My observation is that this particular instance owner posts about killing politicians, denies the holocaust and is fanning hate speech and promoting conspiracy theories among his users. I do not want this person or the people on his instance harassing the people on the Flipboard instance. Simple as that. Everyone is free to make their own decision. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.

mike, to fediverse
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Hello fediverse!

So far we've federated 450 accounts which have now received more than 100,000 likes, boosts, replies and follows from people in the . Today we are federating another 100 people who are curating terrific magazines that people in the fediverse can now enjoy.

Here's just one of my many favorites:

Addressing Climate Change Locally
By Ms. Coleman La Salle
High school Biology and Anatomy Teacher in Portland, Oregon

Federated link:
@addressing

Note that it takes time for newly federated magazines to populate so click on "Browse more on original profile" in order to see all the stories in the magazine. Once you follow, you'll see new stories as they are added in real time.

Enjoy and check out this post for more great examples:
https://medium.com/fedi-curious/over-100-000-social-interactions-from-the-fediverse-to-flipboard-f76465dee4f8

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