Notices by Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social), page 4

@youronlyone @pfefferle @darnell @Flipboard adding @jejord who will get all of your accounts federated. Also cc’ing @greg and @JsonCulverhouse re: following Wordpress blogs in Flipboard.

Here’s a lot more detail on what we shipped today:

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/

Hello fediverse!

This morning we shipped an exciting new version of #Flipboard that enables *anyone* on Flipboard to follow *anyone* in the fediverse.

This is the culmination of a ton of work to deeply integrate #ActivityPub into the product. The result is incredibly seamless.

Just tap on the search icon in Flipboard and tap the follow button for anyone featured there or that you find in search. You’ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds. Check out these screenshots:

@triptych this was also my first computer! I published a game for it called Night Mission.

@BeAware @samlai.bsky.social @jaz Thanks! I don't think we want moderation to be exclusive. It's more about trying to establish a place where a) moderation professionals can collaborate and b) moderation decisions can be made in a way which don't invite abuse of the individuals making the decisions.

I totally agree that moderation decisions should be evidence based and publicly available to other admins.

@wjmaggos @samlai.bsky.social @jaz what are your thoughts on why moderating misinformation might not be a good idea?

@BeAware yes it's super important we build in a way to protect people from bad actors who bomb their replies or quote post malevolently.

As we approach the U.S. election, misinformation and abuse are on the rise and more people are fleeing X in search of something safer and more trustworthy. This is an incredible opportunity for the #fediverse but only if we are able to maintain and expand the effectiveness of our #moderation as we scale.

In this latest episode of Dot Social I go deep with two well known trust and safety experts who are advancing decentralized moderation for the fediverse: @samlai.bsky.social and @jaz. We discuss strengths and weaknesses today as well as what the future could hold.

Check out the conversation on our PeerTube instance or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://flipboard.video/w/tqZTbSmU8vhSo37Lbtg8zS

@samsethi yes, thanks for flagging that. File got corrupted. We are uploading a corrected version soon.

Hello fediverse. Today we federated 63 awesome local publications like @SunSentinel, @Gothamist and @AustinMonitor.

Local news is critical to the communities we live in and so we're excited and grateful to help bring some of the best local publications to the fediverse.

You can learn more here:

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-brings-local-news-to-the-fediverse/

The crazy thing is there are so many of these quotes from so many republicans it would take hours to watch them all.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GE8k9uzyhCM

Apparently Halloween is right around the corner!

@mikedev @silverpill yeah JavaScript in your stream would be problematic.

It would be interesting to figure out a safe and standard way to provide limited interactivity on the level of things like polls. Farcaster seems to be experimenting with ideas like this though i have not looked at it closely.

I made a slide to communicate the power and benefit of decentralizing walled gardens via open standards. Feel free to use this if helpful.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

I absolutely love @404mediaco and finally got around to subscribing. Highly recommended.

Lately I’ve found myself opting to use my new iPad Pro instead of my MacBook Air. I have to say it’s been a real pleasure. The OLED iPad screen is absolutely amazing and the Magic Keyboard is super functional. Now that the front facing camera has been moved to the side it’s easy to do video calls. The battery life is really good and being able to just pick up the screen and walk around the room with it while zooming into product designs in Figma is *awesome*. Excited to see how the iPad OS will evolve tomorrow.

Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.

Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.

Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of #DotSocial on our #PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.

https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA

The antidote to AI destroying the web is to strengthen human connection and to make those connections a fundamental part of the open web. Quickly.

"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models."

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

I talk about the #fediverse in this episode of Technically Optimistic, a terrific podcast by Raffi Krikorian and Emerson Collective. The topic: How to Save Social Media

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technically-optimistic/id1689164209?i=1000654155177