“We need to get out of this world where one person can basically dictate how these communities of people are interacting with each other,” he says. “The writing on the wall is that I don't see Twitter integration lasting much longer.”īut McCue describes Mastodon and the Fediverse as a kind of antidote to the Musk-induced chaos. “It's total chaos over there,” McCue says, referring to Twitter since Musk took over the company. But now, McCue says the current state of Twitter “is quite sad for a lot of people who were advocates and participants in the whole Twitter ecosystem.”Īnd, with Twitter set to end its free API, it’s not clear how much longer Flipboard will be able to maintain any kind of functionality with the service. McCue served on Twitter's board of directors between 20, and Twitter once reportedly considered buying the app. The shift is especially notable for Flipboard given its once deep ties to Twitter.

“What ActivityPub enables is a common, open social graph.” This means that services like Flipboard and Mastodon could eventually be interoperable with other platforms that have pledged to adopt ActivityPub, like Tumblr. “As we embrace ActivityPub at Flipboard, we’ll effectively allow anyone who's on Mastodon to follow a user on Flipboard, and to follow a Flipboard magazine, and vice versa,” McCue says in an interview.

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