Post AXqpXAvAGcyqsFGgi0 by victor@tooters.org
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(DIR) Post #AXqpXAvAGcyqsFGgi0 by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-18T23:17:20Z
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Hey @miaq why the change in Flipboard’s website which strips all author attribution, titling/alt text, and zero links to the source material? Those photos are mine, but how would anyone know? Same behavior on the website/iOS app.Boosting 🚀 on here retains the original author. The only “flipping” happening here is the middle finger at photographers.#Photography
(DIR) Post #AXqpXDOJ5FToXCuzPU by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-18T23:38:59Z
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You’ve “flipped” (🖕🏻) dozens of my photos @miaq and at no point, anywhere, do you give author attribution, or reference where the images were sourced from. You also strip out the location details I provide in my toots, and the alt text which are an important (and essential to screen readers) aspect of each photo I publish.Watermarking be damned, that still wouldn’t help link people back to tooters.org. #Photography
(DIR) Post #AXqpXJZs5AINioNJGi by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-19T00:02:05Z
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There are countless fedi photographers who have CC/Copyright protections on their photos which have been “flipped” into this same curated list of photos with zero attribution. They should be a lot more upset by this than me.I am more upset that no linking back is occurring so my location, and alt text details have been removed. I put a lot of information in my alt text both for people who use assistive technology, but also Easter eggs for people with no vision impairments.#Photography
(DIR) Post #AXqpXW45edb8S0bc2K by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-19T04:33:34Z
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How about every other photographer you’re doing the same thing to? Removing a few photos I call out is hardly a solution. If #Flipboard wants to be a true part of the fediverse they wouldn’t be pulling out content which they then close off into their own app.If someone 🚀 or ⭐️ my toots I receive notice. Flipboard’s implementation removes that ability. Seems like the responsible thing to do would be to stop entirely until you’ve fully considered the impact.@miaqhttps://flipboard.social/@miaq/110738597265527204
(DIR) Post #AXqpXYO11WizeNwYN6 by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-19T04:37:01Z
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This is in addition to every other issue I already mentioned previously in the thread 🧵.
(DIR) Post #AXqpXbIoBLLGh6WwAi by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-19T05:04:28Z
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The fact that I come back on here a few hours after I first published this thread to find DMs from journalists wanting to discuss the topic speaks volumes.We’re all on here kvetching about Meta and Google potentially harvesting our data, and #Flipboard has been on here doing it in plain sight.Pulling content from the fediverse to populate a closed app is the definition of what people on here are worried about happening.
(DIR) Post #AXqprVujvOu9m5lecK by hyde@lazybear.social
2023-07-19T11:48:12Z
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@victor maybe one of the #flipboard accounts could reply @NewsDesk @TechDesk @ScienceDesk @CultureDesk
(DIR) Post #AXteKqJWXfU5SvSV8a by miaq@flipboard.social
2023-07-20T20:23:08Z
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@hyde @victor @NewsDesk @TechDesk @ScienceDesk @CultureDesk Our CEO @mike has been working on this since yesterday and has been sending updates on this threadhttps://flipboard.social/@mike/110742717146431377
(DIR) Post #AXtzX76A3sky2AtulM by squeevening@supernatural.fans
2023-07-19T00:03:11Z
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@victor Wow. Assholes.
(DIR) Post #AXtzX7jrgGW21JTceG by victor@tooters.org
2023-07-19T00:04:56Z
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@squeevening 💯…look at the first screenshot of two in the initial toot of this thread. That was done correctly. Providing all of the info in the original post, and a link back so that alt text was retained. This is ridiculous.
(DIR) Post #AXtzX8K1VpRHpSOV0a by mike@flipboard.social
2023-07-19T20:49:21Z
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@victor @squeevening Hi Victor, I have an update for you on this. It turns out that the reason why you're seeing two different treatments for posts shared to Flipboard from Mastodon is that it depends on how that sharing happened. Our web bookmarklet properly preserves the Mastodon link along with author attribution, etc. But this is broken in our beta iOS and Android integrations.We just shipped a server side hack to fix this immediately. A more elegant fix to the clients will ship soon.
(DIR) Post #AXtzX946kUIo8NxIq8 by mike@flipboard.social
2023-07-19T20:54:46Z
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@victor @squeevening Apologies for creating any alarm here. Our intent has always been to preserve the Mastodon link, attribution, and engagement when that post is seen on Flipboard. We strongly believe this is a) critical for the author of the post and b) a fundamentally better user experience for anyone using Flipboard to discover posts on the Fediverse.Thanks for calling this out and please let me know if I can help with any other questions or concerns you have here.
(DIR) Post #AXtzamsv9ndgV8SYmO by hyde@lazybear.social
2023-07-21T00:21:22Z
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@mike @victor @squeevening nice to see that feedback 😉🙌