On this last day of Black History Month, here's our blogpost highlighting the stories, publications, Magazines and Storyboards we featured throughout the month, plus how you can follow them on Flipboard all year round.
For us, 2024 was a year of building on the social web.
✔️ Expanded federation in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Germany, and the U.K.
✔️ Enabled following accounts from the social web in the Flipboard app.
✔️ Announced @[email protected], a new browser for the social web.
✔️ Produced new episodes of Dot Social, the fediverse podcast hosted by @[email protected]
Thanks for being on this journey with us! 🚀
Did you do cool stuff in the fediverse this year? Tell us all about it in the comments, where we'll also link to the Dot Social PeerTube account and our Surf signup page.
#Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #Surf #ActivityPub #DotSocial #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb
Happy New Year to all our friends, old and new, in the fediverse!
Did you make resolutions for 2025? Feel free to share details in a reply.
#HappyNewYear #NewYear #2025 #Resolutions #NewYearsResolutions #Fediverse
Would you believe "Jingle Bells" wasn't originally conceived as a Christmas song? 🎅
Snopes explains the original intent of the song, written in the 1850s: https://flip.it/qR0SVl
Merry Christmas to all!
People who’ve figured out the fediverse understand its power. Hear from early adopters who explain their lightbulb moments in our new short video series. The use cases and potential of the system are awesome, and these stories are just the beginning. Tell us: what's your favorite thing about the fediverse? We're listening and looking for more people to feature.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/best-thing-about-the-fediverse-short-videos/
⭐️Hello, Fediverse! ⭐️
This week, we’re spotlighting incredible artists, creatives, and poets from Mastodon in our Community tab on Flipboard.
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
Download the app and give them a follow to see posts from your favorite fediverse folks while catching up on the day’s top headlines.
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Books #Poetry #Art #Creative #ConceptArt
⭐️ Community Spotlight ⭐️
This week, we’re featuring amazing journalists from The Verge in our Community tab on Flipboard. Follow their accounts from the fediverse to stay updated on the latest in tech.
@reckless1280
@miasato.2
@imdavidpierce
@tomwarrenuk
@alexheath
On Flipboard, you can follow interesting topics, trusted content creators, prestige publishers and people from the fediverse, all in the same feed.
Download the app here: https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Threads #News #Politics #Journalism #Technology #Tech
📢 Big News!
Today, we’re announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K.
Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel.
Read more in our announcement here:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/
For a full list of federated accounts to follow, visit the Flipboard directory:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
Follow our Mastodon accounts in Brazil and Germany to discover Flipboard accounts to follow and keep up with the day's news:
And as always, tell us in the comments what you think!
#Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #Germany #Deutschland #Brazil #Brasil #UnitedKingom #Ireland #Media #Journalism #News #Technology #Lifestyle #Sports
Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @[email protected]'s @[email protected] and @[email protected]'s @[email protected] join fediverse futurist @[email protected] for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
:star2: Check out this week's featured voices in Community! Follow these journalists and political experts from the fediverse for reporting and commentary on the day's news:
Ian Bremmer, @ianbremmer
Tim Mak, @[email protected]
Katie Harbath, @katieharbath
Olivia Troye, @oliviaoftroye
George Conway, @gtconway3
Steve Herman, @[email protected]
On Flipboard, you can follow interesting topics, trusted content creators, prestige publishers and people from the fediverse.
Download the app here: https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Threads #News #Politics #Journalism
Our blog is now federated! 🎉 Follow this account to make sure you don't miss posts on everything from our fediverse work to how we're covering the U.S. election.
https://flipboard.social/@[email protected]/113285472238328903
ICYMI! @[email protected]'s Dot Social interview with @[email protected] came out earlier this week. They discussed the early days of Bluesky, innovating on social identity, and the benefits of an open social graph. "That right of free connection and communication is something that I think we've really lost in the world where there's just a few large companies that allow or deny interoperability, depending on how it serves their business interests," Graber said.
Watch the episode here:
https://flipboard.video/w/ophhJTECuL7fcBNbUitV3q
You can also listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Check out the full series of Dot Social, which includes conversations with @snarfed.org, @[email protected] and @[email protected], here:
https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos?s=1
#Flipboard #Bluesky #BridgyFed #ATProtocol #ActivityFed #DotSocial #Federation #Fediverse #JayGraber
🌐 Curious about the fediverse and the open social web?
In this week's Community tab, we're spotlighting developers, journalists and experts who will help you learn how the fediverse is shaping a more open and connected internet, and what this means for the rest of us.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
@[email protected]
Follow their accounts in the Flipboard app to see their posts right alongside content from your favorite publishers.
Download the Flipboard app to check it out:
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Federation #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonMigration
Bluesky founder and CEO Jay Graber says social media is stagnating because "we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out. She talked to @[email protected] for the Dot Social podcast about building a healthier internet, how Elon impacted Bluesky's trajectory, innovating on social identity, and how different protocols can come together.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jay-graber/
Watch the video and listen to the podcast on PeerTube here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://flipboard.video/w/ophhJTECuL7fcBNbUitV3q
Discover past interviews here: https://flipboard.com/@mike/dot-social-the-future-of-the-social-web-3r0pl8ge5dju9965
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #Bluesky #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #OpenSocialWeb #JayGraber #MikeMcCue
The Social Web Foundation launched today. This non-profit is dedicated to making connections between social platforms with ActivityPub, and was co-founded by @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected].
The foundation's focus is educating the public and policy makers about the social web, enhancing and extending the ActivityPub protocol, and building tools and plumbing to make the social web easier to use. “With this program, The Social Web Foundation can catalyze more growth on the Fediverse while improving user experience and safety,” says Prodromou. “Our goal is to unblock users, developers and communities so they can get the most out of their social web experience.”
We are proud to support the work of the foundation. Read more about the it here:
https://socialwebfoundation.org/
#ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWebFoundation #SpreadMastodon
⭐️This Week's Featured Voices on Flipboard⭐️
You can now discover climate experts from Mastodon and Threads on Flipboard. These six influential voices are featured in our Community tab this week:
@[email protected]
@renewable_energy_club
@globalecoguy
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
Follow their accounts in the app to see their photography right alongside content from your favorite publishers. If you miss them in the tab, you can always search for their accounts on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to check it out:
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Federation #ActivityPub #ClimateChange #Science #Environment #Fediverse #MastodonMigration
⭐️This Week's Featured Voices on Flipboard⭐️
It's not just Mastodon and Threads accounts you can discover on Flipboard — you can also find and follow folks from (to paraphrase the Beatles) across the fediverse! In this week's Community tab, we featured these photography accounts from @[email protected]:
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
Follow their accounts in the app to see their photography right alongside content from your favorite publishers. If you miss them in the Community tab, you can always search for their accounts on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to check it out:
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Federation #ActivityPub #Pixelfed #Photography #Fediverse #MastodonMigration
Do you use Flipboard to stay up on the latest news in tech? If so, your experience just got better. Now you can follow people on Threads and Mastodon, like Marques Brownlee, Mark Cuban, David Imel, Kara Swisher, and Taylor Lorenz, right from your Flipboard, and get their latest social posts on all things tech.
Learn more about these new features in this blogpost. And if there's a cool account you'd like us to highlight, let us know in the comments below.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-tech-voices-on-flipboard/
#Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Federation #Fediverse #Threads #Flipboard
Behold the magic of the fediverse! In the Flipboard app, you can now follow these cybersecurity experts and journalists from the Mastodon community:
@[email protected] @[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected].
In case you missed it, we announced a few weeks ago that accounts from the fediverse are now discoverable and followable on Flipboard. Download the app to check it out:
Happy Labor Day to our friends in the U.S. and Canada!
USA Today has a look at the history of the holiday: https://flip.it/wfb7H0
Plus, interesting history about the first Labor Day parade in New York City: https://flip.it/W29Xz6
And Farmers' Almanac explores why you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day: https://flip.it/Suy2-D
