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!
Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon
Submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/11/24/flipboard-leaves-twitter/
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derin@lemmy.beru.co 11 months ago
totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Flipboard also supports RSS, allowing you to see your feeds with any software you want!
Eggyhead@kbin.social 11 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 11 months ago
Jesus I have to agree to cookies to be agreed shared with 164 "partners" to read the website
WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
enshitification is widespread
NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
olicvb@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I think the Consent-O-Matic extension saved me for this one
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
But they value your privacy!
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Of course they value it! They can make a tidy sum through its sale.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
howdy partner
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hands off my cookies!!!
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ok, what is the bad news please?
Substance_P@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And I have some bad news about Flipboard.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm not on Lemmy ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
clearleaf@sh.itjust.works 11 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.
sealhaslupus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I often think this. I use a mix of reeder, feedly, vore, instapaper to see what I like.
However I look at my parents and they’ll use Apple News or whatever news source they trust in a browser.
Flipboard is used because it makes it easy for people to find aggregated information. What’s easier than something that already does the aggregation for you?
Often we take for granted things we consider to be normal. I would think everyone has uBlock Origin installed (i’ve used it for years) or something similar, but this is clearly not the case.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s pre-installed shovelware on some phones, in my experience.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
I like it better than the browser news walls. But then I still don’t use it much.
A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Flipboard still exists?
hexloc@feddit.nl 11 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 11 months ago
Momentum starts with exodus type behavior. This is good.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Even Medium has a mastodon instance and account! @medium@me.md.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 11 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
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
How can I tag @medium@me.md ?
falsem@kbin.social 11 months ago
Kbin does the microblogging thing
tun@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Official blog post is …medium.com/flipboard-steps-back-from-tweeting-b0…
The mastodon links are near the end of the post.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Thank fuck. What a shitty article that links the Twitter bullshit but not their new mastodon.
2000mph@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thank you. I left Twitter when the petulent child took over, but I lament not being able to read local emergency info. I’ll check these out.
ademir@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
If you just want to follow and dont care to interact look bird.makeup
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It also seems much higher in overall quality, at least from my limited exposure. I’m still trying to navigate and find people to subscribe to.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 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 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 11 months ago
Nobody with a shred of humanity wants to be alongside actual Nazis and generally horrible people. Who’da thunk it.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yup, it’s much easier for content creators and aggregators to broadcast their stuff over the Fediverse. 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 11 months ago
nodes like startrek.website contributing invaluable original content. doing their part for the federation
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 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 cutecerevant@lemm.ee 11 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 11 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 11 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.