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Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 139 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup, it's much easier for content creators and aggregators to broadcast their stuff over the Fediverse. No API fees and restrictions. Just become a node in the network. Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse, the Fediverse will grow its userbase, returning something to the content creators.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse

nodes like startrek.website contributing invaluable original content. doing their part for the federation

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 10 months ago

Props to them for keeping at it. ~~Need to consume more Star Trek stuff, my extent is that Badgey from Lower Decks is cute~~

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Just remember, if anyone asks you "Kirk or Picard", the correct answer is Janeway.

[-] LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 11 points 10 months ago

Sisko*

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Archer**

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

You're a brave one.

Last person who picked Archer went the way of Tuvix.

[-] chris@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

7 of 9. She’s on the Fediverse…

[-] cerevant@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

This is what is going to drive federated social media. Once marketing types can figure out that they won’t need to maintain 12 different social media presences and can host it on their own domain, they’ll gladly subsidize general purpose instances to make it easier for people to access their content.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago

I think the thing that people are going to struggle with is that the lack of an algorithm spoon feeding them content. This is, of course, a good thing. However the addicts won't get their fix.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

TBH, I have this problem too. I want an algorithm to sift through the firehose. I want to be able to control it though. I'd like to potentially have multiple options. The sorting algorithms in Lemmy are an example for this.

[-] derin@lemmy.beru.co 115 points 10 months ago

One thing to add, it looks like Flipboard is all in on the Fediverse: they've announced plans to support ActivityPub in Flipboard itself, turning it into a federated service.

I think that's really cool!

[-] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

Flipboard also supports RSS, allowing you to see your feeds with any software you want!

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

On Kbin, communities are known as magazines. In the context of Flipboard, this actually kind of makes sense.

[-] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 86 points 10 months ago

Jesus I have to agree to cookies to be agreed shared with 164 "partners" to read the website

[-] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

enshitification is widespread

[-] NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

That’s not enshittification.

Link

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It's shit so atleast partly there.

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[-] olicvb@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

I think the Consent-O-Matic extension saved me for this one

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago

But they value your privacy!

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Of course they value it! They can make a tidy sum through its sale.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

howdy partner

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Hands off my cookies!!!

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Ok, what is the bad news please?

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[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

And I have some bad news about Flipboard.

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[-] clearleaf@sh.itjust.works 57 points 10 months ago

I don't get how Flipboard is even a product when opening any browser gives you a wall of aggregated news stories unless you explicitly set it not to. Any website dedicated to that in 2023 is like a factory that just sucks in air and blows it out the other side.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

It's pre-installed shovelware on some phones, in my experience.

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

I’ve used Flipboard for a really long time. Not because I think it’s good or anything, but because I haven’t found anything that’s just so much better whenever I’ve looked. I particularly appreciate the widget on my Home Screen because it usually has at least one thing I’m inspired to read. I did install Feedly, but I don’t use that any more than Flipboard, and it seems to do the exact same thing.

If you or anyone else have recommendations to something tangibly better though, I’m all ears.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Feedly

Bells ringing... I remember that name... Search for it on the play store, holy crap, yes! That's the app I used to replace Google Reader! Go to install it to try it again... Wait... Why does it say "Open" and not "Install"?

That app has survived several phones without being opened lol. Poor thing. [tumbleweed rolls by]

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I like it better than the browser news walls. But then I still don’t use it much.

[-] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Flipboard still exists?

[-] hexloc@feddit.nl 33 points 10 months ago

Am i going crazy or is this exactly what the fediverse needs to get popular... Businesses and people switching to the fedi making everyone else switch.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Momentum starts with exodus type behavior. This is good.

[-] 2000mph@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Great, Mastodon is really starting to be able to replace much more of Twitter now. The only thing i miss from Twitter was the local accounts I followed for info, will be a while before they all abandon and move over, but hopefully in the end.

[-] RTRedreovic@feddit.ch 10 points 10 months ago

You can use third party frontends like Nitter on Web or Fritter/Squawker on Android (available on F-Droid) to still follow accounts for info without the requirement of having an account anywhere. With the condition that viewing is the only thing you can do.

I left Twitter over an year ago and I use the frontends I mentioned to follow about 20 accounts for info on varied topics.

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[-] tun@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

Official blog post is https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-steps-back-from-tweeting-b0f4af1f4ffc

The mastodon links are near the end of the post.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Thank fuck. What a shitty article that links the Twitter bullshit but not their new mastodon.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://flipboard.social/explore

Even Medium has a mastodon instance and account! @medium@me.md.

It's a pity that lemmy still can't communicate with mastodon.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 10 months ago

It’s a pity that lemmy still can’t communicate with mastodon.

It can, what do you mean? I've seen people commenting on communities from Mastodon for months

[-] MySwellMojo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Can we comment to mastodon?

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yes, but only if the Mastodon post you want to comment on tags a Lemmy community. Lemmy doesn't have a concept of a post without a community.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Never really used flipboard. They always want me to sign in. Site seems bloated with third party scripts and cookies.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

When I had it, flipboard was designed to be pretty and I did like that aspect of it. But I haven't used it in at least 5 or more years and I don't remember having to sign into it. That being said, I thought it was gone (like a service that had been ended).

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Nobody with a shred of humanity wants to be alongside actual Nazis and generally horrible people. Who’da thunk it.

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