Hello fediverse!

Mike McCue

@martin ok. not sure what's happening. Adding @FlipboardCS to help.

Mike McCue

@matlfb @docpop no Flipboard.social account needed. Just send your Flipboard.com account to @jejord and she’ll get you on the list.

Matthias Pfefferle

@mike @Flipboard I checked it with my Mastodon Account and my WordPress blog and it seems to show my Mastodon posts on Flipboard, but I can't see my Flipboard Account in the followers list of Mastodon or my Blog?

Does flipboard send a real "Follow" request or does it simply subscribe to the outbox in a similar way as with RSS?

I would love to debug it a bit, so that it plays nicely with the WordPress plugin, but I can't see any requests to the inbox at all.

@mike meta fedi icon

now at @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] wait what does flipboard do again . wondering if we should block it or not

@sneexy @mike nah they are using threads fediverse icon instead the classical one.

not gona deny its an icon that aesthetically works better with current apps and stuff like that (circles better than straight lines. being straight is bad joke here).

Nothing important worth blocking I think. They just enabled federation for everyone

#alsoIThinkYouJustMentionedTheCeoLol

now at @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] we mention the ceo for everything on Thy Freddy Verses !!! :mlm_fedi: Nobody is spared.
also i just don't remember what flipboard did but i guess we'll keep it federating. it seems like they provide news sources directly. will probably suspend the fox account though

Amit Pundir :android: :tux:

@mike Nice! But it would be great to use Flipboard as the proper Mastodon client (with like/reply/post/retoot access) for the connected Fedi account.

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

@mike @ben Your screenshots make it look like it's mostly integration with the Meta product known as Threads

Flipboard Community Support

@mike @martin Hi Martin, I'll contact you privately for additional information.

Mike McCue

@sindarina @ben Hah. The luck of the screen shot. There are a ton of mastodon users featured too.

Mike McCue

@pundir You can actually do this by connecting your fedi account to Flipboard. Go to the Following tab (the tab with 4 squares) and select the accounts tab. Then sign in to mastodon and you'll see your home timeline, mentions, lists, etc. and can fully reply, like, etc.

Mike McCue

@sneexy @gabboman Happy to be mentioned! I can answer any Qs you have and I promise I won't take any offense to blocking since the fediverse is all about choice.

now at @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] well while you are here i wanna ask the question as the original post that started this thread, why the meta fedi icon instead of the original? was there a reason for using that one instead? i think it'd be better to use the original icon to prevent any future confusion or anything like "the thing facebook made"

Amit Pundir :android: :tux:

@mike I tried the same yesterday. The timeline loaded but I couldn't post and felt like it worked in read-only mode. But thank you for confirming that flipboard can be used as a Mastodon client. I'll try again today.

Amit Pundir :android: :tux:

@mike Still no luck. Check screenshots.

Mike McCue

@pundir hmmm. Cc’ing @FlipboardCS

Mike McCue

@sneexy @gabboman fair question. I don’t think the fediverse icon works particularly well when scaled down and when placed next to or on top of avatars. Also the vast majority of people have never even seen that icon. Meanwhile the threads fediverse icon is simple and clean, doesn’t rely on color, and works well scaled down. Most of all, whether we like it or not, millions of people are being exposed to this icon everyday on Threads as a symbol of the fediverse so I think it’s a pragmatic choice.

freakpocalypse 🔰

@mike @sneexy @gabboman at this point it would be better to just fetch the instance's favicon (like *key and akkoma does)

unless it's just for promo material then ignore the fetch suggestion, but nonetheless it's frankly disrespectful to the network that y'all are compliant in meta's attempts at the EEE of fediverse

@alex @mike @sneexy tbh icons can be nsfw in bad cases, and also "what this?" for people

also if I understood correctly for design reasons its on greyscale so yeah.

tbh I was half joking on the first post and wasn't expecting a reply haha

#alsoWowWafrnWorksWithANewImplementationNoProblem