“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.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. “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. Instead of relying on the “proprietary social graphs” of services like Twitter and Facebook - both of which have become increasingly hostile to outside developers - Flipboard could instead be centered around ActivityPub, the open source protocol that powers Mastodon and the rest of the decentralized services that make up the “Fediverse.” Flipboard is also starting up its own Mastodon instance in an effort to encourage broader adoption among its user base.Īccording to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, the two updates are the first “very initial steps” of a broader plan to embrace the decentralized social networking protocols that have been popularized by Mastodon over the last year. The company announced that it’s integrating Mastodon into its main app, so that users can browse their feeds much the way they can “flip” through their Twitter timelines. The news reading app, whose founder was once on Twitter’s board of directors, is now going all in on the Fediverse.
Flipboard is the latest service to embrace Mastodon as Twitter becomes increasingly chaotic under Elon Musk.
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