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Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)

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The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch its user accounts to ActivityPub, which means that everyone curating stuff on Flipboard is now doing so in a way that apps like Mastodon can see and interact with.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

If it's really that necessary, maybe we need better mechanisms to preserve small communities, but I feel like trying to keep most people in big techs walled gardens so that we can enjoy our spaces just feels selfish and short cited.

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