Flipboard (remember them?!) still exists and is going to "switch its user accounts to ActivityPub", "which means that everyone curating stuff on Flipboard is now doing so in a way that apps like Mastodon can see and interact with". It's currently a limited test - only 25 accounts are in it (The Verge, Medium, Semafor, Pitchfork, The Conversation & others) right now - but it means you can follow The Verge's Flipboard posts on Mastodon, or even Meta's Threads once they get ActivityPub support going. Flipboard's CEO said that "we're in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub", which is nice and all, but honestly, how is this any different to an RSS feed? Is it the ability to see favourites/boosts/comments, etc as well as the original content? Either way, this is great progress. Maybe this is the silver lining of Twitter's death.
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