• hexloc@feddit.nl
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    Am i going crazy or is this exactly what the fediverse needs to get popular… Businesses and people switching to the fedi making everyone else switch.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    Yup, it’s much easier for content creators and aggregators to broadcast their stuff over the Fediverse. No API fees and restrictions. Just become a node in the network. Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse, the Fediverse will grow its userbase, returning something to the content creators.

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      This is what is going to drive federated social media. Once marketing types can figure out that they won’t need to maintain 12 different social media presences and can host it on their own domain, they’ll gladly subsidize general purpose instances to make it easier for people to access their content.

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      I think the thing that people are going to struggle with is that the lack of an algorithm spoon feeding them content. This is, of course, a good thing. However the addicts won’t get their fix.

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        TBH, I have this problem too. I want an algorithm to sift through the firehose. I want to be able to control it though. I’d like to potentially have multiple options. The sorting algorithms in Lemmy are an example for this.

  • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
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    One thing to add, it looks like Flipboard is all in on the Fediverse: they’ve announced plans to support ActivityPub in Flipboard itself, turning it into a federated service.

    I think that’s really cool!

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      On Kbin, communities are known as magazines. In the context of Flipboard, this actually kind of makes sense.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    Nobody with a shred of humanity wants to be alongside actual Nazis and generally horrible people. Who’da thunk it.

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    I don’t get how Flipboard is even a product when opening any browser gives you a wall of aggregated news stories unless you explicitly set it not to. Any website dedicated to that in 2023 is like a factory that just sucks in air and blows it out the other side.

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      I’ve used Flipboard for a really long time. Not because I think it’s good or anything, but because I haven’t found anything that’s just so much better whenever I’ve looked. I particularly appreciate the widget on my Home Screen because it usually has at least one thing I’m inspired to read. I did install Feedly, but I don’t use that any more than Flipboard, and it seems to do the exact same thing.

      If you or anyone else have recommendations to something tangibly better though, I’m all ears.