Flipboard has been a popular newsreader for years, grabbing data from news sites and social media feeds into a single “social magazine.” The service is now going all in with Mastodon, the rapidly-growing open-source social media service.

Flipboard has offered integration with Twitter for years, allowing you to see articles or text posts shared by people you follow in the app’s main feed — an especially helpful feature for people interested in specific people or topics, rather than everything from a given news source. However, with Twitter cutting off many third-party services from its API, and Mastodon becoming a Twitter replacement for many people, Flipboard is updating its apps to work equally well with Mastodon.

I suppose yes, with Twitter restricting their API more and more, and Mastodon being fully open and free, this is quite attractive for Flipboard. Interestingly too, the company has also set up its own Mastodon server at Flipboard(dot)social, so they are really investing in the platform in more ways than one.

See https://www.howtogeek.com/876330/flipboard-is-now-a-mastodon-app/

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