Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app

Flipboard is making good on a significant fediverse promise. Late final 12 months, on the identical time it introduced it might be switching person accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard mentioned it deliberate to let customers observe customers on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Beginning Tuesday, that characteristic is right here, which means which you could observe individuals from locations like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed proper inside Flipboard.

Flipboard will characteristic fediverse profiles in just a few other ways within the app. Flipboard’s search will present fediverse accounts, for instance, whereas the Discover tab could have editorially curated suggestions, in line with a press launch. In a screenshot shared by Flipboard, the Discover part has a “Fediverse” tab that’s populated with profiles like Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel’s Threads account and Mike Masnick’s Mastodon account, and you may observe these accounts with a faucet.

Whilst you’ll have the ability to see posts from federated accounts on different platforms, you received’t have the ability to reply to or like these posts from Flipboard except your Flipboard account is additionally federated, which might not be the case for everybody. Flipboard has solely turned that on for some accounts to date, and if yours isn’t federated but, you’ll have the ability to request for that to occur, Flipboard’s Marci McCue tells The Verge.

Nonetheless, Flipboard’s fediverse enlargement might make the app a one-stop store to your information and social media posts from the individuals you’re most concerned about. I’m intrigued by the thought; I often hold my article feeds and my social feeds in separate apps, however I can see the way it might be helpful to mix them each.

Flipboard has been a vocal supporter of federation. The corporate created its personal Mastodon occasion (Flipboard.social) in 2023, and CEO Mike McCue has written and talked about how large a deal he thinks federation is. However due to issues like this Flipboard replace and the newly added means in Threads to see replies to your federated posts, the lofty guarantees of federated social networking have gotten extra of a actuality.