I think that fully integrating #ActivityPub into Flipboard's backend is going to be one of the best things we've done since we started the company.
There are three phases:
Phase 1 (Today): Federate 25 accounts to test and learn
Phase 2 (January): Enable anyone in the Fediverse to engage with any public curator on Flipboard
Phase 3 (April): Enable anyone on Flipboard to follow and engage with any public account in the #Fediverse
Check out my Medium post for more
https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209
@astrojuanlu it’s gonna be weird having 2 fediverse verge accounts, is the flipboard one gonna be the main one now that it’s on the fediverse or are they both gonna coexist
@millions @astrojuanlu Yes, that's part of the test. Publishers and creators will likely have multiple accounts for different use cases (i.e. kind of like how you can follow me on mastodon, flipboard or pixelfed... I use each account to post different content for different reasons)
Exactly how this all settles out is something we're all learning together in real time right now.
@mike I think you should use the full follower count from Flipboard rather than resetting to Zero once these are fully integrated.
@Transportist @mike i'm fairly sure that all followers need to be "actual" fedi accounts, so the count will be accurate once they federate all the accounts.