flipboard.com is a remarkable collection of accounts that are connected to the Fediverse. There are 5,757 accounts from them that are known on this server (we relay with them and get all their content), and these accounts post about every topic imaginable.
You can follow any of their accounts on your favorite Fediverse app! It's great!
I relay with their server so that searches return a richer result set.
Today, I had to create an extra sidekiq process just to handle the surge of posts from them. But, I think it's worth it.
If you have a specific interest, you might find an appropriate account to follow. I'll be looking through their accounts.
Here's a tiny screenshot to show how specialized some accounts are.
Do you know @Flipboard?
It’s a really nice service for getting news for a wide range of topics.
In the past when my iPad was still mine exclusively I used the #flipboard app A LOT. It's like a magazine you can flick through 😍
Flipboard is federating since some time already!
This is simply amazing, because you can follow certain topics via your favourite #fediverse / #mastodon client and curators get interact with readers.
I really appreciate that Flipboard's ActivityPub implementation turns on full text search by default. It's the right choice for discoverability and user experience.
Now if only Mastodon would do something more to prompt users to consider enabling full text search for their accounts.
Wonderful People are over there at #Flipboard. We love the posts, that reach us. So many fantastic pictures, so many wonderful people. Hey you, at Flipboard, we here at Mastodon love you.
It feels so good, to be united. Flipboard, #Fediverse or #Mastodon? Who cares? We are the ONE.
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.
Here it is. A quick video tutorial on how to access your #mastodon Flipboard.social account on @Flipboard. You’ll be able to flip content into your magazines once you have your account connected. #flipboard#fediverse
With Meta moving Threads — slowly but surely — into the Fediverse, @quillmatiq wanted to see if the Threads experience could be improved on Mastodon. He says what he discovered "went above and beyond" his expectations.
Actually, the specific post you're replying to is nothing more than #Flipboard scraping and aggregating #Fedivere content from #Mastodon to re-post under its own imprimatur
Inspired by a Tim Chambers post (@tchambers), I've enabled the relay between us and Flipboard's Mastodon server (Flipboard.social) so that everything posted there will be available here, in parallel.
This should enhance search results as searches will now include all their content and all their active user accounts.
@mikedev thanks for the encouragement. Your software sounds like something people will need. But today most of us don’t know what we are doing on the Fediverse. Those of use #federated by #flipboard are learning how to manage our new accounts. Please keep me posted. #fediverse.