Hello Fediverse.
Today we’re announcing the addition of PixelFed and Bluesky to our social web integrations on Flipboard.
Now you can see posts from Mastodon, PixelFed, Bluesky and, of course, Flipboard all in the same user experience. You can favorite, reply to, and boost any post. You can follow any user. You can explore any hashtag. And you can post text, photos and links to any timeline. Bluesky is available today for Flipboard on iOS and Android. PixelFed will be live in a few days.
Special thanks to @dansup for building @pixelfed and making it easy for developers to build with it. I also love that Pixelfed is 100% #ActivityPub based making it seamlessly interoperable with #Mastodon.
These beta API integrations provide an early glimpse into the interoperability possible on the social web as more services are built by developers. The next step is to integrate at the protocol level via #ActivityPub so that users of #Mastodon, @Pixelfed and #Flipboard can seamlessly follow and engage with each other.
While Bluesky does not yet use ActivityPub, they seem very committed to federation so I hope there will eventually be a way to resolve this.
@mike noting this to our @activitypubblueskybridge group...