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   Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 04:00:55 JST Mike McCue

   Here's a condensed list of the accounts we are federating today:

   @AfarMedia
   @TheRoot
   @pitchfork
   @thecollector
   @LGBTQNation
   @Refinery29
   @Smithsonianmag
   @SPINMag
   @IndieWire
   @Semafor
   @Joysauce @mental_floss
   @ConversationUS
   @theverge
   @polygon
   @NewsLitProject
   @csmonitor
   @The74
   @FastCompany
   @Digiday
   @Medium
   @Kotaku
   @ScienceAlert
   @NatObserver
   @Photowalks
   @ErinBrockovich

   You can also follow me on Flipboard
   @mike@flipboard.com

   You can learn more from my Medium post: https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 04:36:42 JST Mike McCue

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     • mimo

     @mimo Nous fédérons de nombreux comptes francophones en janvier.

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     mimo@calckey.world's status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 04:36:43 JST mimo

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     @mike@flipboard.social est-ce que vous avez une liste de comptes francophones que l'on pourrait suivre? Merci à l'avance.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 14:33:33 JST Mike McCue

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     • Laura Lis Scott
     • Brian Dear

     @LLS @brianstorms Not sure what you mean, Laura. These links are all in the Fediverse. Can you elaborate?

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     Laura Lis Scott (lls@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 14:33:34 JST Laura Lis Scott

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     • Brian Dear

     @brianstorms @mike I too don’t see the point. Every account link takes me out of the Fediverse. It’s not quite federation, is it?

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     Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 14:33:35 JST Brian Dear

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     @mike

     Still baffling. I just don't see why all these places use Flipboard, which is essentially a middleman interstitial page which requires still clicking to the actual content site to get the whole story, so why anyone (except folks who enjoy middleman companies inserting themselves into the flow) uses Flipboard at all. Just so baffling.

     Equally baffling: $235 million in VC investments in Flipboard over the years.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:09:26 JST Mike McCue

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     • Laura Lis Scott
     • Brian Dear

     @LLS @brianstorms hmmm... that is now what I am seeing and should not be happening. Which publication are you seeing this on?

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     Laura Lis Scott (lls@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:09:28 JST Laura Lis Scott

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     • Brian Dear

     @mike @brianstorms Each link opens a Flipboard website page for the publication, covered by a popup to get the app. So I clear the popup (which pops up every time, even on revisits) and click Follow — but instead of Following the publication, I get another popup to open Flipboard app. Instead of connecting us with these publications in the fediverse, each account pushes me repeatedly to the app. Seems more about marketing than connecting.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:14:45 JST Mike McCue

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     • Mona app
     • Laura Lis Scott
     • Brian Dear

     @LLS @brianstorms @MonaApp I really appreciate you reporting this. I think what might be happening is that you are tapping on the link for the Flipboard magazine that the story was posted in instead of the link for the story itself.

     There should be two links in each post you see. The first is the link to the publisher's story. The second is the link to the magazine that the story was flipped in.

     Are you clicking on the first link or the second?

     Maybe we need to make this more clear.

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     Laura Lis Scott (lls@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:14:46 JST Laura Lis Scott

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     • Mona app
     • Brian Dear

     @mike @brianstorms All of them. I’m using @MonaApp

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:14:53 JST Mastodon Migration

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     To follow ALL of these publications and put them into a LIST titled Flipboard:

     Download FlipboardPubs – List.csv file >>>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vShtKQ-TBKUzQ67Jn0g_ZxQCyLRXP1NEb6dV6MgZPosEAWlavXGcNgda3g7DU4xyKf3t7uAv3pMRCwr/pub?output=csv

     Preferences >>> Import and Export >>> Import >>> Select Lists from drop-down >>> Click Choose File and browse to FlipboardPubs – List.csv file and click UPLOAD and CONFIRM

     IMPORTANT! If you don’t want these in your home feed, go to Lists and click on Flipboard then click the little slider icon (top right) and select “Hide these posts from home”

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:18:42 JST Mike McCue

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     • Justin Fitzsimmons

     @smn I knew someone would ask about this. I asked my team about this too. The Monitor is widely recognized by many journalistic organizations as an objective, thoughtful source of good journalism.

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     Justin Fitzsimmons (smn@l3ib.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:18:43 JST Justin Fitzsimmons

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     @mike real fuckin weird that the christian science monitor is grouped with the rest of these

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     acquirer (acquirer@allegedly.illegitimate.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 16:20:56 JST acquirer

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     @mike
     @theverge
     I tried to follow the verge, and it went to request pending rather than followed. Are they going to have to manually approve each new follower?
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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 16:20:56 JST Mike McCue

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     • acquirer

     @acquirer @theverge I'm not seeing that. I can follow without any approval. Are you sure you are following the Verge on Flipboard?

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 17:11:29 JST Mike McCue

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     • Erik Moeller

     @eloquence yes all federated accounts will see replies and be able to fully engage with anyone.

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 17:11:31 JST Erik Moeller

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     @mike

     One thing that's unclear from me reading the Medium post -- who will see replies, once all federation features are implemented? Will publishers/authors themselves engage with fedi?

     (I'm trying to better understand what sets apart Flipboard's approach from a passive ingestion model like https://press.coop/, which just creates fedi accounts for RSS feeds.)

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 17:16:11 JST Mike McCue

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     • Erik Moeller

     @eloquence This is a major focus for phase 2 in January. By April any account on Flipboard should be able to follow, reply, engage with any account in the fediverse and vice versa.

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 17:16:12 JST Erik Moeller

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     @mike

     Very cool! Looking forward to it becoming a two-way thing :)

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 15:11:03 JST Mike McCue

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     • Mona app
     • Laura Lis Scott
     • Brian Dear

     @LLS @brianstorms @MonaApp I see. There is apparently a bug with Mona that we are chasing down. What you are seeing should not be happening. We hope to get this fixed soon. Appreciate you reporting the issue.

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     Laura Lis Scott (lls@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 15:11:05 JST Laura Lis Scott

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     • Mona app
     • Brian Dear

     @mike @brianstorms @MonaApp I was clicking on the account links listed in the original post above.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:09:10 JST Mike McCue

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     • Jason Culverhouse :flipboard:
     • acquirer
     • Value Subtracted

     @ValueSubtracted @acquirer @theverge what app are you using? cc @JsonCulverhouse

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     Value Subtracted (valuesubtracted@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:09:11 JST Value Subtracted

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     • acquirer

     @mike @acquirer @theverge Same issue here. I've tried to follow both The Verge and Kotaku's flipboard feeds. Neither shows up in my timeline, and their profiles say my follow is pending approval.

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     Jason Culverhouse :flipboard: (jsonculverhouse@flipboard.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 06:13:07 JST Jason Culverhouse :flipboard:

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     • acquirer
     • Greg Scallan :verified_red:
     • Value Subtracted

     @mike @ValueSubtracted @acquirer @theverge @greg
     We are aware that there is an issue where pleroma returns a 400 when we try to accept the follow request.