Elysia Macht
@BeAware Precisely the point. Did we ASK to be even potentially blasted in front of 200 million people, never before even heard of, just because some Greg behind the TDF account decided to write some program to grab all the accounts off Public timelines, or whatever it was?
The assumption that social media equals automatically trying to get the highest number of eyes on whatever random nonsense you post is flawed. Someone else deciding what we want doesn't work, and was the first move seen.
BeAware
It's insane to me how fast Flipboard is moving with ActivityPub integration!
WAY faster than a MUCH larger company.
Meta needs to take notes cause Flipboard is doing AP the right way!
#Flipboard #SocialMedia #Meta #Threads #ActivityPub #Fedi #Fediverse
Anuj Ahooja
@BeAware Not to mention they're doing with an *existing* service, not one from scratch. Kudos to @Flipboard on all of this 👏🏼
BeAware
@quillmatiq @Flipboard facts!
This is pretty great.
I still have slight reservations on the whole "opt-in" thing, but with the way Flipboard has been informing their users regarding how Fedi works, I don't feel it's as big of an issue as Threads' opt-in because they barely discuss it.
Anuj Ahooja
@BeAware And with their latest update, you can follow Fediverse users *without* needing to federate - you only need to federate if you want to engage. It's a really cool way to let people dip their toes into this world without needing to fully commit on day one.
BeAware
@quillmatiq I do worry a bit about that because if it doesn't *show* those follows, it could be lambasted by wider Fedi.
Though, ill hold my thoughts till I know more.
I doubt I'm gonna be anyone's first follow there.
Sibshops
@BeAware How can I follow Pennsylvania topics on flipboard. Is there a way yet?
Greg Scallan :verified_red:
@BeAware @Sibshops @Flipboard topics are not followable in the fediverse. Some of our users (e.g. publishers and creators) are followable and their magazines. We do offer local news publishers like @SpotlightPA and @PennLivedotcom. The challenge with topics is that they are algorithmic from many non-federated sources so a follow action doesn't make much sense (because the items can change all the time and disappear, re-appear ... it is not follow timeline based). We've had some ideas on how to make it more direct, but not yet ventured down that path. Great question!
Elysia Macht
@BeAware @quillmatiq They already did it wrong when that POS TDF "The Daily Fediverse" account followed EVERY visible account with over a 100 followers last weekend. As the first time many even heard about whatever the F. Flipboard is.
Their posts are very keen to say they're helping to discover 'popular' accounts on Fedi, both TDF & whoever toting it otherwise.
Popular apparently = "EVERYONE with over a 100 followers", based on what they did first.
I didn't ASK to be touted to God knows who.
BeAware
@ElysiaMacht your profile is set to public.
There's protections against these things for this reason.
Elysia Macht
@BeAware There are discoverability limitations. Most ordinary random people expect to remain small & uninteresting. I'm not included in searches. There are some 200 followers & I block-kick out 99% of new accounts trying to follow me, vetting even the ones that do get a pass. 🤷♀️
I don't have controlled follows because executive dysfunction & other things would then mean no one ever getting to follow me again. Everybody would sit in limbo waiting to be cleared or rejected. 🧿
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