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Hello fediverse!

This morning we shipped an exciting new version of #Flipboard that enables *anyone* on Flipboard to follow *anyone* in the fediverse.

This is the culmination of a ton of work to deeply integrate #ActivityPub into the product. The result is incredibly seamless.

Just tap on the search icon in Flipboard and tap the follow button for anyone featured there or that you find in search. You’ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds.

Check the screenshots below and read this post to learn more:

about.flipboard.com/fediverse/…

Now People on Flipboard Can Follow Anyone in the Fediverse - Flipboard

Anyone who is federated is followable on Flipboard, giving Flipboard’s community even more options for people and content to enjoy.
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Matthias Pfefferle
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@Flipboard I checked it with my Mastodon Account and my WordPress blog and it seems to show my Mastodon posts on Flipboard, but I can't see my Flipboard Account in the followers list of Mastodon or my Blog?

Does flipboard send a real "Follow" request or does it simply subscribe to the outbox in a similar way as with RSS?

I would love to debug it a bit, so that it plays nicely with the WordPress plugin, but I can't see any requests to the inbox at all.

@Flipboard
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We Distribute
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Congratulations, Mike! We're already spreading the word.

wedistribute.org/2024/08/flipb…


Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse

Starting today, Flipboard will let users search for and follow accounts from across the Fediverse from the comfort of their own dashboards. This is the next step in introducing Flipboard's wider userb
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Mike McCue
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@hello Thank you! And one really important point to highlight:

This is actually a full blown ActivityPub follow. So what that means is that if your Flipboard account is federated it is a full two way connection and you can reply to posts.

Also, starting today, any Flipboard user can request to federate their account to gain this two way capability. We are gradually federating more and more accounts as we scale our backend.

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Martin Kostera
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Tried connect from app myself, potus, @xChaos, @Kosmo Klub, even Kara Swisher. It's not working. Search for Social is full of YT users and channels, nothing from Fediverse.
(Flipboard account martin@kostera.name)
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Mike McCue
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@martin Will look into this. Be sure you're using the very latest version of Flipboard. CCing @FlipboardCS to help.
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Martin Kostera
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@Mike McCue Android. I see Fediverse sub, but I can't rolling down for hours to find anybody. There are millions accounts on Fediverse(tried to roll down for several minutes, no POTUS, for example). And when I use search, Fediverse sub disappear and in result I can't see anything from Fediverse. 🤷‍♂️
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Amit Pundir
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Nice! But it would be great to use Flipboard as the proper Mastodon client (with like/reply/post/retoot access) for the connected Fedi account.
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Mike McCue
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@pundir You can actually do this by connecting your fedi account to Flipboard. Go to the Following tab (the tab with 4 squares) and select the accounts tab. Then sign in to mastodon and you'll see your home timeline, mentions, lists, etc. and can fully reply, like, etc.
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Amit Pundir
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I tried the same yesterday. The timeline loaded but I couldn't post and felt like it worked in read-only mode. But thank you for confirming that flipboard can be used as a Mastodon client. I'll try again today.
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Gabbo the wafrn guy
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meta fedi icon :(
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Gabbo the wafrn guy
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nah they are using threads fediverse icon instead the classical one.

not gona deny its an icon that aesthetically works better with current apps and stuff like that (circles better than straight lines. being straight is bad joke here).

Nothing important worth blocking I think. They just enabled federation for everyone
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now is @sneexy@booping.synth.download
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we mention the ceo for everything on Thy Freddy Verses !!! ​:mlm_fedi:​ Nobody is spared.
also i just don't remember what flipboard did but i guess we'll keep it federating. it seems like they provide news sources directly. will probably suspend the fox account though
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Mike McCue
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@sneexy @gabboman Happy to be mentioned! I can answer any Qs you have and I promise I won't take any offense to blocking since the fediverse is all about choice.
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now is @sneexy@booping.synth.download
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well while you are here i wanna ask the question as the original post that started this thread, why the meta fedi icon instead of the original? was there a reason for using that one instead? i think it'd be better to use the original icon to prevent any future confusion or anything like "the thing facebook made"
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Mike McCue
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@sneexy @gabboman fair question. I don’t think the fediverse icon works particularly well when scaled down and when placed next to or on top of avatars. Also the vast majority of people have never even seen that icon. Meanwhile the threads fediverse icon is simple and clean, doesn’t rely on color, and works well scaled down. Most of all, whether we like it or not, millions of people are being exposed to this icon everyday on Threads as a symbol of the fediverse so I think it’s a pragmatic choice.
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Woozy Gezicht 2.0 🔰
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at this point it would be better to just fetch the instance's favicon (like *key and akkoma does)

unless it's just for promo material then ignore the fetch suggestion, but nonetheless it's frankly disrespectful to the network that y'all are compliant in meta's attempts at the EEE of fediverse

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Jupiter Rowland
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@Mike McCue A new proposal for a Fediverse logo is a Unicode character: ⁂ (U+2042).

Most of all, whether we like it or not, millions of people are being exposed to this icon everyday on Threads as a symbol of the fediverse so I think it’s a pragmatic choice.


This would not only allow, but actively help Meta assume control over the Fediverse.

#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Asterism #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo #Meta #EmbraceExtendExtinguish

#fediverse #meta #FediMeta #Asterism #embraceextendextinguish #fediversemeta #CWFediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #FediverseSymbol #FediverseLogo @Mike McCue
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Mike McCue
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@jupiter_rowland That’s a cool suggestion. Will explore that and other options. They key is we need everyone to use the same icon otherwise users will be very confused.
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂
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@jupiter_rowland We just made a page to explain ⁂ more in details if you’re interested: symbol.fediverse.info

A symbol for the fediverse ⁂

We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
⁂ fediverse symbol
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂
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@jupiter_rowland even today not everyone is using the same icon. Many people are using the Mastodon logo when what they are representing is the fediverse, Theads stepped in and made up their own (which I see you are now using) but having Meta be the one to choose symbology for us seems very counter to many of our collective visions. And having each platform and each software all use different symbology is indeed very confusing. Thus this initiative.
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