One thing that's unclear from me reading the Medium post -- who will see replies, once all federation features are implemented? Will publishers/authors themselves engage with fedi?
(I'm trying to better understand what sets apart Flipboard's approach from a passive ingestion model like https://press.coop/, which just creates fedi accounts for RSS feeds.)
@eloquence This is a major focus for phase 2 in January. By April any account on Flipboard should be able to follow, reply, engage with any account in the fediverse and vice versa.
@mike @theverge
I tried to follow the verge, and it went to request pending rather than followed. Are they going to have to manually approve each new follower?
@jd@acquirer@mike Same here with Akkoma backend, trying to follow The Verge. Looking at the logs, at least host metadata lookup fails, but I haven't looked at enough of the follow procedure to know if it interrupts the procedure.
Also follower/following count update fails, again not sure if that affects the procedure.
Edited to add to answer previous comment: Following someone always requires an Accept response from the followed account. The response may be generated automatically by the server, but if the server doesn't receive one, the account will stay in "Follow requested" state.
Pleroma based instances seem to have some difference in how they handle the incoming requests, but I haven't been able to quite put my finger on the problem.
We don't implement the host-meta interface. This shouldn't be an #activitypub requirement. I can dig some more into this issue. We do not support the xml requests to the webfinger url. I'll look for your follow request and see what I
can do.
@mike@acquirer@theverge Same issue here. I've tried to follow both The Verge and Kotaku's flipboard feeds. Neither shows up in my timeline, and their profiles say my follow is pending approval.
@app pull the conversation for this post, it should reference a post with a bunch of account names listed, Try any command that invokes a user selection dialog, like "Follow" or "View Timeline". This produces the following error for me, which happens silently. Because the view dialog still does not show full usernames, I can't actually figure out where these accounts are, and have to go to it on the web.
2023-12-18 21:58:02,516 [ERROR] root: Error in stream.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\urllib3\response.py", line 710, in _error_catcher
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\urllib3\response.py", line 1077, in read_chunked
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE~1\urllib3\response.py", line 1012, in _update_chunk_length
urllib3.exceptions.InvalidChunkLength: InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read)
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\requests\models.py", line 816, in generate
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\urllib3\response.py", line 937, in stream
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\urllib3\response.py", line 1106, in read_chunked
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\contextlib.py", line 137, in exit
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE~1\urllib3\response.py", line 727, in _error_catcher
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ("Connection broken: InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read)", InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\mastodon\streaming.py", line 109, in handle_stream
File "C:\Users\SIMONJ1\PROGRA1\TWEESE1\requests\models.py", line 818, in generate
requests.exceptions.ChunkedEncodingError: ("Connection broken: InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read)", InvalidChunkLength(got length b'', 0 bytes read))
@smn I knew someone would ask about this. I asked my team about this too. The Monitor is widely recognized by many journalistic organizations as an objective, thoughtful source of good journalism.
Preferences >>> Import and Export >>> Import >>> Select Lists from drop-down >>> Click Choose File and browse to FlipboardPubs – List.csv file and click UPLOAD and CONFIRM
IMPORTANT! If you don’t want these in your home feed, go to Lists and click on Flipboard then click the little slider icon (top right) and select “Hide these posts from home”
@mike
Hi Mike, congrats on the integration activation. Question for you. I notice there's some tracking on the website and in the apps. Will the replies to/interactions with federated Flipboard.com posts also be subjected to the same tracking? Is there any sort of third-party data collection applied? Thank you!
Still baffling. I just don't see why all these places use Flipboard, which is essentially a middleman interstitial page which requires still clicking to the actual content site to get the whole story, so why anyone (except folks who enjoy middleman companies inserting themselves into the flow) uses Flipboard at all. Just so baffling.
Equally baffling: $235 million in VC investments in Flipboard over the years.
@LLS@brianstorms@MonaApp I really appreciate you reporting this. I think what might be happening is that you are tapping on the link for the Flipboard magazine that the story was posted in instead of the link for the story itself.
There should be two links in each post you see. The first is the link to the publisher's story. The second is the link to the magazine that the story was flipped in.
@LLS@brianstorms@MonaApp I see. There is apparently a bug with Mona that we are chasing down. What you are seeing should not be happening. We hope to get this fixed soon. Appreciate you reporting the issue.
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