Today we're taking another important step in our journey to fully federate Flipboard.
This morning we federated 1,000 Flipboard Magazines curated by the publishers we have been testing federation with in addition to 20 new publishers we are federating today. These include magazines like Adventure Travel by Outside, Eater DC by Eater, Explore NYC by Thrillist, Throwbacks by SPIN, and Climate Tech by Bloomberg.
Flipboard Magazines are a simple way to curate articles, images, videos and podcasts into a thematic feed. This powerful curation tool has been at the heart of Flipboard since 2012 with millions of magazines curated since about recipes, road trips, architecture, books, tech trends and so much more.
Federated magazines become native #ActivityPub feeds and can be followed by anyone on Mastodon. For example, check out my Following the Fediverse magazine @following
I believe that thoughtfully curated feeds have the power to make social media a lot more effective and inspiring so I'm excited to bring millions of these magazines to the #Fediverse as we federate all public curators in the next few weeks.
Check out my Medium post for more details along with a list of some of the great magazines we federated today.
@timothyjohnson@following no it does not. What you see now is a consequence of enabling the Flipboard app to do programmatic advertising via google. We will be revising this and taking a new approach for the fediverse. In fact I am meeting with my team tomorrow on this very topic. More to come here.
@mike I hesitate to because the few commands I was allowed to give were totally ignored and now all I see are sensationalist garbage/news. Any suggestions for getting it off my phone and onto the computer where I have more commands available?
@mike@Lizette603_23 Hi Lizzie. In most cases, you can disable the Briefing app in your device's application manager in settings, which turns the app off and hides it. Feel free to DM if you need additional help!
@salvomic You'll get an email in the next few weeks letting you know that your account and magazines have been federated with tips on how to promote your magazines so people can discover and follow them. There will also be an option to de-federate if you want to.
@mike looks like if you do a search on Mastodon for the URL of the magazine
(like https://flipboard.com/@theverge/apple-news-a21vmd3nz for the Apple News magazine from The Verge) it will return the fediverse profile for that magazine, which you can then follow.
@mike@mollyanglin thank you! It seems like every mag has a handle and following that seems easy enough… but is there a list of all the handles somewhere? Or do I just hunt for them myself?
@mollyanglin try searching for flipboard.com and select the profiles tab to see the list as it stands now. As new curators are federated we will encourage them to post links to their magazines ideally with a common hashtag. We'll also do more to feature great magazines to follow.
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