Hello fediverse!
This morning we shipped an exciting new version of #Flipboard that enables *anyone* on Flipboard to follow *anyone* in the fediverse.
This is the culmination of a ton of work to deeply integrate #ActivityPub into the product. The result is incredibly seamless.
Just tap on the search icon in Flipboard and tap the follow button for anyone featured there or that you find in search. You’ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds.
Check the screenshots below and read this post to learn more:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/
@mike Each person/account shows up as a separate magazine, right? Is there an easy way to combine them?
@dan613 Great Q. We definitely need a way to do this. I believe the fediverse should have a notion of multiple feeds for a single account. This would also help enable things like publicly shareable lists. Open to ideas for how to make this happen!
@mike I was thinking more like lists on Flipboard. It's not just for the Fediverse, but any RSS feed like WordPress. I can do it with an external RSS aggregator, but I don't see why Flipboard couldn't do this internally (multiple feeds per magazine).
If it's any help, PeerTube is in the same boat, they have a concept of accounts which own multiple channels, but Mastodon (incorrectly IMHO) interprets these channels as groups, just as it does for Flipboard's magazines.
Perhaps this interpretation could be worked on at Mastodon's end via the Mastodon Github?
The multiple feeds per account thing is already possible on the Fedi, it's just Mastodon is not handling/displaying these correctly.