Flipboard has recently begun federation, starting with 25 accounts. These accounts can be viewed from Kbin with their posts showing up as microblog posts.
What do you guys think about this? I don’t really know much about Flipboard or its implications for the fediverse, so I’m curious what others think about the matter.
If you’re interested, here are the accounts that have federated:
The Verge — @theverge
Fast Company — @FastCompany
Semafor — @semafor
SPIN — @SPINMag
News Literacy Project — @NewsLitProject
Medium — @Medium
Digiday — @Digiday
ScienceAlert — @ScienceAlert
Polygon — @polygon
Frommers — @FrommersMag
Kotaku — @Kotaku
The 74 — @The74
Pitchfork — @pitchfork
Refinery29 — @Refinery29
Mental Floss — @mental_floss
The Root — @TheRoot
Joysauce — @Joysauce
IndieWire — @IndieWire
LGBTQ Nation — @LGBTQNation
Smithsonian Magazine — @Smithsonianmag
AFAR Media — @AfarMedia
The Christian Science Monitor — @csmonitor
Erin Brockovich — @ErinBrockovich
Canada’s National Observer — @NatObserver
The Conversation (US) — @ConversationUS
There’s pingable accounts if you use #Kbin/#Mbin and want to follow them: The Verge — @theverge@flipboard.com Fast Company — @FastCompany@flipboard.com Semafor — @semafor@flipboard.com SPIN — @SPINMag@flipboard.com News Literacy Project — @NewsLitProject@flipboard.com Medium — @Medium@flipboard.com Digiday — @Digiday@flipboard.com ScienceAlert — @ScienceAlert@flipboard.com Polygon — @polygon@flipboard.com Frommers — @FrommersMag@flipboard.com Kotaku — @Kotaku@flipboard.com The 74 — @The74@flipboard.com Pitchfork — @pitchfork@flipboard.com Refinery29 — @Refinery29@flipboard.com Mental Floss — @mental_floss@flipboard.com The Root — @TheRoot@flipboard.com Joysauce — @Joysauce@flipboard.com IndieWire — @IndieWire@flipboard.com LGBTQ Nation — @LGBTQNation@flipboard.com Smithsonian Magazine — @Smithsonianmag@flipboard.com AFAR Media — @AfarMedia@flipboard.com The Christian Science Monitor — @csmonitor@flipboard.com Erin Brockovich — @ErinBrockovich@flipboard.com Canada’s National Observer — @NatObserver@flipboard.com The Conversation (US) — @ConversationUS@flipboard.com
Kbin user here, these don’t work for me.
I thought it’s because the instance is missing, but I checked out your comment on fedia.io and it seems like everything is correct there.
Here on kbin.social it only displays
@usernamewithout the instance afterwards, and the link itself isn’t federated it seems. So kbin tries to resolve the name locally, fails, and just displays it in plaintext.