Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon - gHacks Tech News
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The news aggregator Flipboard has announced it will leave Twitter/X. The platform will continue its services on Mastadon.
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    142·
    11 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.

    • cerevant@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      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.ukEnglish
      5·
      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.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        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.

  • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
    115·
    11 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.eeEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

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

    • Eggyhead@kbin.social
      12·
      11 months ago

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

  • clearleaf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    571·
    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.worldEnglish
      26·
      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.caEnglish
      161·
      11 months ago

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

    • Eggyhead@kbin.social
      9·
      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.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        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.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

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

  • hexloc@feddit.nlEnglish
    331·
    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.

  • 2000mph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    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.

    • RT Redréovič@feddit.chEnglish
      10·
      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.worldEnglish
        3·
        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.

    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.worldEnglish
    20·
    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.worldEnglish
    11·
    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.caEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

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