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   Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 02:32:41 JST Mike McCue

   Hello Fediverse!

   Today we're taking another important step in our journey to fully federate Flipboard.

   This morning we federated 1,000 Flipboard Magazines curated by the publishers we have been testing federation with in addition to 20 new publishers we are federating today. These include magazines like Adventure Travel by Outside, Eater DC by Eater, Explore NYC by Thrillist, Throwbacks by SPIN, and Climate Tech by Bloomberg.

   Flipboard Magazines are a simple way to curate articles, images, videos and podcasts into a thematic feed. This powerful curation tool has been at the heart of Flipboard since 2012 with millions of magazines curated since about recipes, road trips, architecture, books, tech trends and so much more.

   Federated magazines become native #ActivityPub feeds and can be followed by anyone on Mastodon. For example, check out my Following the Fediverse magazine @following-the-fediverse-mike

   I believe that thoughtfully curated feeds have the power to make social media a lot more effective and inspiring so I'm excited to bring millions of these magazines to the #Fediverse as we federate all public curators in the next few weeks.

   Check out my Medium post for more details along with a list of some of the great magazines we federated today.

   https://medium.com/@mmccue/federating-flipboard-magazines-575a18297bd6

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:14:31 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Fediverse News

     @mike @following-the-fediverse-mike

     This is super important and good news 👆 cc: @fediversenews

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     Salvo Micciché (salvomic@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:03:08 JST Salvo Micciché

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     @mike How will we know when our account Flipboard is federated? Will a notification be sent? Or is there a list to check? Thank you

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:21:41 JST Mike McCue

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     • Salvo Micciché

     @salvomic You'll get an email in the next few weeks letting you know that your account and magazines have been federated with tips on how to promote your magazines so people can discover and follow them. There will also be an option to de-federate if you want to.

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     Salvo Micciché (salvomic@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:37:01 JST Salvo Micciché

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     @mike Thanks for the information, very clear. We are waiting for the email. Good! 🙂

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:03:56 JST Mike McCue

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     • Molly Anglin

     @mollyanglin Hi Molly, Here's a link that will help: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-federates-magazines-for-mastodon-users/

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     Molly Anglin (mollyanglin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:03:57 JST Molly Anglin

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     @mike @following-the-fediverse-50uv65adz-mike this sounds great! How do you follow the magazines from Mastodon?

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     Molly Anglin (mollyanglin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:32:06 JST Molly Anglin

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     • Molly Anglin

     @mike @mollyanglin thank you! It seems like every mag has a handle and following that seems easy enough… but is there a list of all the handles somewhere? Or do I just hunt for them myself?

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:32:06 JST Mike McCue

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     • Molly Anglin

     @mollyanglin try searching for flipboard.com and select the profiles tab to see the list as it stands now. As new curators are federated we will encourage them to post links to their magazines ideally with a common hashtag. We'll also do more to feature great magazines to follow.

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     Lizzie she/her (lizette603_23@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:34:39 JST Lizzie she/her

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     @mike You mean like the flipboard on my Samsung?

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:34:39 JST Mike McCue

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     • Lizzie she/her

     @Lizette603_23 that's actually a stripped down version of Flipboard called Briefing. Try downloading the full app from the android store.

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     Lizzie she/her (lizette603_23@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:49:56 JST Lizzie she/her

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     @mike I forgot the most important part, THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING!

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:49:56 JST Mike McCue

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     • Lizzie she/her

     @Lizette603_23 you're welcome. let me know what you think!

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:50:55 JST Mike McCue

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     • Lizzie she/her

     @Lizette603_23 Yes, check out http://flipboard.com

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     Lizzie she/her (lizette603_23@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 07:50:56 JST Lizzie she/her

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     @mike I hesitate to because the few commands I was allowed to give were totally ignored and now all I see are sensationalist garbage/news. Any suggestions for getting it off my phone and onto the computer where I have more commands available?

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:22:09 JST Mike McCue

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     • Lizzie she/her
     • Flipboard Community Support

     @Lizette603_23 hmmm. that's above my pay grade! :-) ccing @FlipboardCS

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     Lizzie she/her (lizette603_23@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:22:10 JST Lizzie she/her

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     @mike THanks a bunch. Do you know how to get it off a Samsung???? lol I know, I'm pushing my luck but I had to ask.

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     Flipboard Community Support (flipboardcs@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:41:14 JST Flipboard Community Support

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     • Lizzie she/her

     @mike @Lizette603_23 Hi Lizzie. In most cases, you can disable the Briefing app in your device's application manager in settings, which turns the app off and hides it. Feel free to DM if you need additional help!

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 09:30:30 JST Mike McCue

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     • Lizzie she/her

     @Lizette603_23 🙏

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     Lizzie she/her (lizette603_23@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 09:30:31 JST Lizzie she/her

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     @mike PS great work

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 12:32:06 JST Mike McCue

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     • Timothy Johnson

     @timothyjohnson @following-the-fediverse-mike no it does not. What you see now is a consequence of enabling the Flipboard app to do programmatic advertising via google. We will be revising this and taking a new approach for the fediverse. In fact I am meeting with my team tomorrow on this very topic. More to come here.

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     Timothy Johnson (timothyjohnson@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 12:32:07 JST Timothy Johnson

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     @mike @following-the-fediverse-mike
     Flipboard's privacy policy allows extreme data collection. Does it apply to the fediverse as well?