Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you can follow people from places like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed right inside Flipboard.

  • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤@social.ggbox.fr
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    3 months ago

    you have to tap a link to go to the actual, often cookie-walled, website

    Kind of like how RSS/Atom is not useful anymore. Most feeds don’t contain the actual articles, in an attempt to increase clicks and ad revenue. That’s just sad, I miss the old internet.

    • rglullis@communick.news
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      3 months ago

      There are some RSS readers that will download the actual URL and apply “reader mode” on the page to present the full article. I think FreshRSS has such a plugin.

      • thegreekgeek
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        3 months ago

        It does! I haven’t configured mine yet but I use Feedme’s mobilizer to do the same thing at the moment.