In its initial phase, select Flipboard accounts will be discoverable and can be followed by the millions of users of decentralized social apps, including Mastodon.

This allowed Flipboard to get a feel for the world of decentralized social media, and learn how its users would respond.

That changed this year, when Flipboard shifted its Twitter integration over to Mastodon and another alternative social app, Bluesky.

Initially, Flipboard is testing the integration with select accounts, including publishers like Semafor, Pitchfork, Fast Company, Medium, LGBTQ Nation, Refinery 29, Digiday, Polygon, SPIN, Kotaku, Frommer’s, The Verge, Smithsonian Magazine, Refinery 29, The Root, ScienceAlert, AFAR Media, and others.

In addition to X rival Instagram Threads, which began testing ActivityPub last week, other tech companies are moving in this direction, as well.

For Flipboard, after integrating its backend with the fediverse, the company may reconsider what its front end should look like, too, for this new age of social media.

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