Post AoUsOFtgiBCdhqLW2C by jlines@pleroma.debian.social
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 (DIR) Post #AoU77QASZqWon6f6EC by rwg@aoir.social
       2024-11-27T19:13:52Z
       
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       @jdp23 @mike I agree. Meta's approach, in my view, was to appease European regulators and little else, and yet gets a lot of attention. Flipboard has done a lot of work promoting the fediverse to news orgs and providing a way for news orgs to participate. I definitely find the latter to be more beneficial.(Although I would still argue news orgs ought to run their own servers.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AoU77V8W6UweCWn7OS by jlines@pleroma.debian.social
       2024-11-27T19:42:22.917690Z
       
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       @rwg @jdp23 @mike Very much agree on the running their own servers - while appreciating Flipboard's promotion of the Fediverse. Flipboard, and Facebook, Twitter etc flatten the name space, removing useful clues for the reader about the real source. If something appears on a monolithic site, which appears to be from something like a source you trust, you could easily be misled. The reader is expected to trust the platform, not the source.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoU77W8YNqZJIvof5c by rwg@aoir.social
       2024-11-27T19:50:07Z
       
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       @jlines @jdp23 @mike I hear what you're saying, but at least from my view here on a Mastodon instance, I don't see the flatness with Flipboard. I see the logo of the news org, story previews, and pictures from the news org's site. The only way to know it's coming from Flipboard is because of the instance name.But I don't go to Flipboard.com itself to look at things -- I get news here on Mastodon from orgs that use Flipboard's instance. (If anything, then, my use of Mastodon flattens things...)
       
 (DIR) Post #AoU77WqVkPjLVGNlbc by mike@flipboard.social
       2024-11-28T00:28:49Z
       
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       @rwg @jlines @jdp23 I really appreciate these thoughts. it’s super motivating to hear people are getting value from the work we’ve done with publishers. Re: publishers owning their own instance in the fediverse, I think that’s the ideal situation and I think we could see that happening a lot next year.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoUBEW15d4cim5uwQy by mike@flipboard.social
       2024-11-28T01:14:59Z
       
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       @jdp23 @rwg @jlines totally. Any audience they build via their Flipboard activity belongs to them and they can post to that audience from any app or instance in the future. It’s so amazing how freeing it is be out of the walled gardens.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoUsOFtgiBCdhqLW2C by jlines@pleroma.debian.social
       2024-11-28T07:04:14.541407Z
       
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       @mike @rwg @jdp23 I see Flipboard and similar as being able to add value as content aggregators, similar to the way the BBC has  ‘The Papers‘ articles on its website. Flipboard, by working with publishers, hence filtering out unreliable sources, could give access to a spectrum of views on, say Electric cars.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoUsOHOZ8rUqLtngno by jlines@pleroma.debian.social
       2024-11-28T07:09:55.796368Z
       
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       @mike @jdp23 @rwg I see one of the biggest problems with current social media is that the algorithms keep showing readers more of what they like to see, but rather like issues of highly processed foods, it is not always a good thing to be fed only what you like.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoUsOICu7hlKs1LtGS by mike@flipboard.social
       2024-11-28T09:18:32Z
       
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       @jlines @rwg @jdp23 yes the tyranny of the For You feed as @juliaangwin.com puts it.