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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/19\/flipboard-brings-editorial-curation-to-mastodon-with-desks-for-news-and-discovery\/<\/a><\/br> Magazine app Flipboard is furthering its investment in the Fediverse<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the distributed social media ecosystem that includes apps like Mastodon and others \u2014 with its newly announced plan to establish its first editorial desks to curate news for the wider federated community. Initially, the company will launch four desks \u2014 News<\/a>, Tech<\/a>, Culture<\/a>\u00a0and Science<\/a> \u2014 which it says won\u2019t be automated by bots but instead by professional curators who have expertise in discovering and elevating interesting content.<\/p>\n The company already understands the ins and out of curation, having built an app that lets users organize articles and updates, including those from social networks, into personalized magazines that can also be shared with others.<\/p>\n But more recently, Flipboard has shifted its focus to embracing<\/a> the open social web and the Fediverse, with the launch of its own Mastodon server<\/a> and announcement of its plans to more deeply integrate with the ActivityPub, the protocol powering a growing number of decentralized apps, including open source Twitter alternative Mastodon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Flipboard also added support for browsing Mastodon and engaging with its content in its magazine app, after Twitter\u2019s new owner Elon Musk revoked API access for a range of third-party services, including Flipboard. Earlier this month, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue shared that Twitter had turned off their API integration<\/a> for longtime apps, like Flipboard, which had been working with the microblogging service for some 13 years. Before, Flipboard users could view tweets in the app and add them to their magazines. Now, Flipboard says it won\u2019t work with Twitter after Musk changed the pricing<\/a> for its API to cut out smaller developers<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile Twitter is enabling payment for some API access, the approach they\u2019ve taken is prohibitively expensive, unreliable and frankly untrustworthy,\u201d McCue said at the time. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine us or anyone else ever relying on Twitter again for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, McCue and the Flipboard team had seen this moment coming and had already redirected the company away from Twitter and toward Mastodon.<\/a> Its own server \u2014 or \u201cinstance\u201d in Mastodon lingo \u2014 now has over 600 members. The company is positioning the instance as a \u201chighly moderated, fast, secure and reliable\u201d way for first-time Mastodon users to join the Fediverse. When the instance launched in February, it was initially open only to Flipboard\u2019s top curators, but the company aims to slowly scale it up to thousands of members over time.<\/p>\n The Flipboard Mastodon account<\/a> has also become an active participant in the community, posting regular recommendations about interesting users to follow (#FollowFriday). McCue himself has also taken part in events,<\/a> like the FediForum virtual \u201cunconference\u201d where Fediverse builders discussed a range of ideas and demoed their products.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, Flipboard is adding more value to the Mastodon community with its desks concept, which it says will deliver explainers and analysis, but not flood users\u2019 feeds with \u201ca kajillion posts.\u201d<\/p>\n The new desks will also help people find others to follow on Mastodon \u2014 something that can still be a challenge with today\u2019s setup.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 Because it\u2019s not always easy to find people in the Fediverse, we will elevate the voices of thoughtful writers, reporters and thinkers, and of course the publishers who are joining the conversation,\u201d wrote Flipboard North America managing editor Carl Sullivan, in a blog post.<\/a> \u201cIn other words: you\u2019ll see us boosting posts by others,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n The post explained how the different desks will work. The News Desk will cover the day\u2019s top stories and investigative journalism. The Tech Desk will bring the last tech news across topics like AI, social media and other impactful innovations. The Culture Desk will highlight interviews, reviews and features in the arts and entertainment space. And the Science Desk will cover news in areas like space, climate change and more.<\/p>\n The company tells us that the curators running the desks are the employees who curate the accounts with the same names on Flipboard\u2019s own app. The team will feature three to five stories per day but will also boost posts from other accounts on Mastodon to aid in discovery.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s early days for the Fediverse and one of the things we\u2019ve heard over and over again is that it\u2019s hard to find great people and content,\u201d Flipboard communications head Christel van der Boom said. \u201cWe believe in a future that\u2019s federated and as you know we\u2019re working toward full integration with ActivityPub. These Desks are a very first step into that direction and offer us a way to learn with the community,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
\nFlipboard brings editorial curation to Mastodon with \u2018desks\u2019 for news and discovery<\/br>
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