I've never really cared about Flipboard and thought they were just another blog site, but I'm starting to realize they do actually enjoy the fedi and internet freedom

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They have the co-creator of activity pub explaining everything, it's pretty great. https://flipboard.video/w/nLKq9MFfyMdLaqAmHtDUWj

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am going to reply to my other one, I don't want to do a switch and bait in case you don't like what I'm going to say:

ActivityPub is planning on having advertising, this isn't going to be an advertising free space. Towards the end, he talks about it. IMO, they think of the fediverse as like a small town with billboards, retail storefronts, houses, family gatherings, places to date (he mentioned he wanted dating sites to pop up), etc. That you can have one address for all of it and you control the reach. It sounds like, correct me if I'm wrong, it will depend on what instance you're on, but advertising can and will pop up. I'm not sure how any of that will work in the future, but I did want to mention it to prepare some people. It might be more quiet than pop-ups? I'm not sure.

[–] all4one@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would imagine it should be easier to block as long as everything is playing by the same rules.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He did mention something like that in a vague way, so I didn't really know for sure what he was saying. I also think he has kind of a naive understanding of how these companies are going to go all in on trying to advertise the shit out of stuff so they can make more money, following the rules or not.

[–] all4one@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I definitely think they will also try to abuse it any way they can eventually.

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's who he is!? I just followed him because I liked his posts lol.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think he's here on lemmy, but from the interview, here's his tag https://cosocial.ca/@evan

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I follow him on Mastodon.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 29 points 10 months ago

I was never really into Flipboard but after watching their launch ad from 2010 I'm realizing that their business has always been about trying to jam fediverse functionality into web2. No surprise they're so all in

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Great news

[–] Falst@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tried to follow the dot_social@flipboard.video channel from Lemmy but it doesn’t show up.

Shouldn’t it contain the « channel » string in the name ? :/

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't get it work either but figured it was some authorized fetch stuff going on. What do you mean by channel string?

[–] Falst@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I see. I don’t know much about authorized fetch, I’ll have to investigate a bit (I’m able to follow the linked account from mastodon however).

I was able to find greg_channel@flipboard.video on this instance for example, a wild guess was that maybe lemmy expects peertube « communities » to have the « channel » string in the name but it’s unlikely 😂