Another walled garden is opening up to the new social web.
  • harc@szmer.infoEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    “Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

    OK, that sounds good.

  • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Flipboard. That’s a news reader for phone/tablet right? I think I used to use it a number of years ago.

    Then I started wanting finer control over my newsfeeds and got into RSS clients. But this is an interesting development in that it provides a lower-level way to access Flipboard content that might suit me better?

    I wish Apple News would do something like this. I subscribe to it to get around certain paywalls, but it seems pretty unscriptable.

  • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I can get behind this.

    It’s definitely better intentioned and much less potential harm could be caused by this than Threads.

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      If Lemmy gets support for multi-communities and we can use flibpoard magazines as communities in lemmy, that would be incredible!

      • atocci@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        I know kbin has this feature, it calls them collections. You can see some examples on the list of public collections here. They don’t seem to federate though, so I’m guessing they’re tied to the instance you make them on and can’t be subscribed to from others.