Flipboard is making good on its fediverse promises.

Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you can follow people from places like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed right inside Flipboard.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Flipboard is one of the biggest Fediverse platforms out there, second only to Threads I believe (unless you count WordPress, maybe?). 145 million active users. I think it’s mostly used by younger gen X/older millenials.

    It didn’t have ActivityPub integration originally but promised to add it a while back, kind of like how Tumblr is joining the Fediverse, although Tumblr doestnd seem to implement ActivityPub just yet.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        They said they would two years ago, and indicated they still intend to last December. I don’t think it’s much of a priority (they could’ve implemented basic functionality in a couple of months if it were), but I do believe they’re working on it.