Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse

The on going destruction of Twitter is having some really interesting 2nd order effects. Threads is kicking ass and implementing (extending and embracing/enclosing, but let’s take the win) ActivityPub. We’re in a lovely moment of open standards flourishing. The fediverse is fun and hopeful while it lasts.

“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006062/flipboard-fediverse-mastodon-activitypub-profiles-social

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