So, ready for a really seriously exciting Fediverse development?
Flipboard has announced that they have begun to federate, and the first thing they are doing is hosting a whole bunch of wonderful publications using a new Fediverse instance flipboard.com
Follow these great publications here: https://flipboard.social/@mike/111602961501910219
Read all about it and their future plans in this Medium post by Flipboard CEO @mike:
Flipboard begins to Federate >>> https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209
Interesting concept.
The list of publications is kinda weird: it's a bunch of relatively neutral broad information outlets and then chunked in there is a US christian conservative anti-public school lobby group (the74 / American Federation for Children). Is the idea of flipboard to smoothly legitimize this stuff?
@Pepijn @mastodonmigration I've asked my team about this and will come back to you.
@mike @mastodonmigration Any feedback from your team?
@Pepijn @mastodonmigration Yes. Thanks for checking back. I have a number of things to relay here which I’ll do in a thread.
@Pepijn @mastodonmigration 3. This is one of the ways that we put quality ahead of engagement when recommending content. Twitter, as just one example, does the exact opposite of this.