Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app

Flipboard is making bully connected a large fediverse promise. Late past year, astatine the aforesaid clip it announced it would beryllium switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to fto users travel users connected federated platforms that utilized ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that diagnostic is here, meaning that you tin travel radical from places similar Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed close wrong Flipboard.

Flipboard volition diagnostic fediverse profiles successful a fewer antithetic ways successful the app. Flipboard’s hunt volition amusement fediverse accounts, for example, portion the Explore tab volition person editorially curated recommendations, according to a property release. In a screenshot shared by Flipboard, the Explore conception has a “Fediverse” tab that’s populated with profiles similar Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel’s Threads account and Mike Masnick’s Mastodon account, and you tin travel those accounts with a tap.

While you’ll beryllium capable to spot posts from federated accounts connected different platforms, you won’t beryllium capable to reply to oregon similar those posts from Flipboard unless your Flipboard relationship is also federated, which whitethorn not beryllium the lawsuit for everyone. Flipboard has lone turned that connected for immoderate accounts truthful far, and if yours isn’t federated yet, you’ll beryllium capable to petition for that to happen, Flipboard’s Marci McCue tells The Verge.

Still, Flipboard’s fediverse enlargement could marque the app a one-stop store for your quality and societal media posts from the radical you’re astir funny in. I’m intrigued by the idea; I usually support my nonfiction feeds and my societal feeds successful abstracted apps, but I tin spot however it could beryllium utile to harvester them both.

Flipboard has been a vocal protagonist of federation. The institution created its ain Mastodon lawsuit (Flipboard.social) successful 2023, and CEO Mike McCue has written and talked about however large a woody helium thinks federation is. But acknowledgment to things similar this Flipboard update and the recently added quality successful Threads to see replies to your federated posts, the lofty promises of federated societal networking are becoming much of a reality.