“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

OK, that sounds good.

Flipboard. That’s a news reader for phone/tablet right? I think I used to use it a number of years ago.

Then I started wanting finer control over my newsfeeds and got into RSS clients. But this is an interesting development in that it provides a lower-level way to access Flipboard content that might suit me better?

I wish Apple News would do something like this. I subscribe to it to get around certain paywalls, but it seems pretty unscriptable.

I can get behind this.

It’s definitely better intentioned and much less potential harm could be caused by this than Threads.

@mike@flipboard.social 's post containing the accounts to follow:

https://flipboard.social/@mike/111602382232229349

It should be possible to get integration for these to show up in Lemmy, instead of having to crosspost everything.