![]() ![]() It also plans to support ActivityPub, the underlying protocol that powers Mastodon and other federated apps.Īccess to the new instance, for the time being, will be limited to Flipboard curators on an invite-only basis. But the company’s Fediverse ambitions extend beyond a product integration as Flipboard is launching its own Mastodon instance, flipboard.social, to provide an easy way for Flipboard users and magazine curators to participate in the decentralized web. Starting today, the Flipboard app for iOS will include a beta feature that will allow Mastodon users to visually flip through their timeline to view posts from the people they follow, much like they’ve been able to do with Twitter. The company is rolling out an update today, and cofounder Mike McCue briefed me on it last week and gave me the chance to spend a couple of days with it before it hit the App Store.įlipboard hasn’t changed radically, but there are a bunch of improvements that make it even more….well, Flipboardy.Magazine app Flipboard is joining the Fediverse - the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the newly popular Twitter alternative Mastodon. ![]() It’s not just the best one I’ve seen on an iPad app it’s one of the best ones I’ve seen on anything.Ĭan you tell that I kind of like this program? Well, now I like it even more. And its user interface is a thing of wonder: an amazingly polished, fun experience that both feels like a magazine and like nothing I’ve ever seen before. This “social magazine”–which brings together stuff from Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Web into a wonderfully browsable package–simply couldn’t have existed in the pre-iPad era. ![]() If I had to pick just one of them as the romantic ideal of what a tablet app can and should be, it would be Flipboard. My iPad is bursting at the seams with wonderful applications. ![]()
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