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\u201cThe power of the social web, I think, is definitely going to happen,\u201d he says. \u201cThe specifics of the AT protocol, the ActivityPub protocol, and how all those things come together, will ultimately get worked out. Those are just sort of like tactical friction points\u2026but this is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plus, he notes, Flipboard is teaming up with other developers to try to collaborate on building a bridge between the two protocols.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat way, users on ActivityPub could follow users on Bluesky using AT Protocol and vice versa,\u201d McCue explains.<\/p>\n

For the time being, he wanted Flipboard to work with both protocols without upsetting the user experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing here is very reminiscent of what email clients used to do when you had POP3 and IMAP \u2014 two different email protocols. It\u2019s still email. And users mostly didn\u2019t care. The client just integrated both protocols and made it work. That\u2019s really what we\u2019re doing here with Mastodon and Bluesky,\u201d McCue says.<\/p>\n

However, for the time being, Flipboard is currently integrating with the Mastodon and Bluesky APIs \u2014 not their respective protocols. That work is ongoing for ActivityPub. And the future for the AT Protocol, including possible connectivity to ActivityPub via a bridge, is unknown.<\/p>\n