Notices by Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)

The winner tonight is not Trump. It's Putin.

How will great journalism be discovered in a world where SEO is dying, social media is fragmenting, and AI slop is everywhere?

I asked two of the most savvy people in the publishing world @jasonkoebler and @ben on the latest episode of Dot Social.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on our #PeerTube instance here:

https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY

Trump is promising that he will root out and round up “vermin”. I.e. anyone he considers an enemy. It could not be more clear that this election is a defining moment that will determine whether we go back to the 1930s or move forward and finally turn the page on this insanity.

“The rhetoric has been normalized. The next move is to normalize the practice.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2dKnNbSU8s

Flipboard.social is now running the latest Mastodon 4.3 release. @Gargron and team have taken the experience to a whole new level of usefulness, usability and control.

I especially like that journalists can now link their articles directly to their fediverse profile. As X continues to disdain journalists, Mastodon is helping to support their work.

Check out all the details here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

Crazy. The For You feed is the root cause for so many of the ills in social media. The idea that “AI slop” will be injected as a test in people’s feeds in the coming months is another reason why the fediverse is more important than ever.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ny_56VJiL9w

What is the future of identity on the social web? Could it span federation protocols and be baked into the internet itself? What could it look like to everyday users and how would it be used?

There’s no better person to ask than @jay.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky. Jay's extensive experience and deep knowledge about the promise, products and protocols underlying the fediverse is legendary.

If you’re building for the #fediverse this conversation will get you thinking and inspired. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on our PeerTube instance:

https://flipboard.video/w/ophhJTECuL7fcBNbUitV3q

@matt very well said. This thing is bigger than all of us, including meta.

I was once a lone engineer building software in the world of the walled gardens of AOL and Microsoft and it sucked. It was a super constrained world where success meant having to convince a few people at Egghead to distribute your software or you were relegated to oblivion.

Then the web happened. AOL tried to bring the web into their walled garden and died. Microsoft fully embraced the web and thrived. But the web was an unstoppable force and even with the big players fighting for position, legions of independent developers built and shipped great things reaching hundreds of millions of people.

For too long, building anything that connects people in new and interesting ways has seemed futile because of the dominance of today’s walled gardens. That is all changing before our eyes because of the creativity, labor and persistence of lone engineers like you and Evan and Eugen and Dan.

Human connection is finally becoming an integral part of the open web during a time when those connections are more important than ever. This is bigger than all of us, including meta, and the future is bright for the developers building here.

Another day, another set of amazing Flipboard accounts to federate. Today includes 250 top tier publishers along with more than 4,000 magazines they curate to let you follow specific things like:

Design Trends by Apartment Therapy (@design-trends-AptTherapy)

Science by The Atlantic (@science-TheAtlantic)

Album Reviews by Rolling Stone (@album-reviews-RollingStone)

Politics by PBS News Hour (@politics-PBSNewsHour)

Reminder: These are all freshly federated so accounts may appear empty at first. Once you follow you'll see any new posts in your timeline.

More details here:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/

So excited about the Social Web Foundation (@swf)!

@evanprodromou and team will make the #fediverse more interoperable, foster more developer collaboration, inspire more innovation and help more people see the benefit of the social web. Honored to be part of this.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

@johnonolan awesome

@bhawthorne @mmasnick.bsky.social yes. I replied to Mike from Flipboard and he replied to me from Bluesky. It’s super cool. I wish it was opt out and not opt in so more people could benefit.

It’s been a year and a few months since we stood up our Mastodon instance. What an awesome experience this has been.

Makes me appreciate the many instance admins out there in the fediverse. Kudos to everyone who has helped host and moderate their part of the fediverse over the years. The tech is the tool but you are the soul.

Will the real me please stand up?

Testing posting into my @vulcanite-mike Flipboard magazine from Mastodon.

@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @dansup @rimu@piefed.social @piefedadmin piefed is great. I’m trying to follow some of these communities on mastodon but having difficulty. Are there specific ones you recommend that work well in mastodon?

@BeAware thanks. on it. Cc @greg

@toddalstrom Yes Bluesky is very impressive.

Also I really need to educate myself on why Threads would be moving slower in the EU to federate. Very counter intuitive.

@davidbhimself.online I’ve been using @bsky.brid.gy for a while now and I can confirm it is awesome. I follow some awesome people on Bluesky including @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @mmasnick.bsky.social and they can follow me.

Today was a great day for the fediverse and everyone in it!

Does anyone have any great examples of #mbin communities? It's easy to find Lemmy communities but harder to find Mbin since the transition from Kbin.