Managing Editor, Flipboard
At Flipboard, we believe a healthy democracy starts with access to trustworthy information. Our team is committed to supporting quality journalism and making it easier for everyone to stay informed.
Our values haven't changed. Here's a blogpost that explains more.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-commitment-to-truth-and-quality-journalism/
#News #Media #Journalism #Ethics #EthicalJournalism #MediaIndustry #Flipboard
Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode. Listen in full!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/molly-white-sxsw-2025/
#DotSocial #OpenSocial #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #Flipboard #SXSW #FediverseHouse #CreatorEconomy #Creator #MollyWhite #Internet #Tech #Technology
I thought this interview with Jay Graber was pretty insightful. Ignore the dumb headline; I'm excited for what's next for the open social web. https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/
Major Surf beta dropping today which introduces Starter Sets for the open social web. Now you can benefit from other people's curation to quickly and easily make highly useful, personalized feeds for each of your interests.
For example, combine "Tech Builders and Thinkers", "Guardians of The Fediverse" and "Tech posts from My Mastodon Follows" to get a personalized tech feed that includes interesting people and posts from Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, Pixelfed, Bluesky and more.
More info here:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/surf-starter-sets-make-custom-feed-building-easy/
The Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. typically marks the start of summer there, so here’s a collection of light and frothy… just kidding! We’ve got stagflation! We’ve got a barnstormer from @Daojoan about the global loss of virtue and morality! We’ve got Dr. Phil’s son and his payday loans! In and amongst the hard news, find a little optimism with not one, but two stories on helping birds, a piece from @TexasObserver on how Jess Rizo, whose niece died in the Uvalde shooting, turned pain into a run for public office, and some inspiring stories on activism from @Joysauce. Don’t forget to follow independent publishers on the open social web, engage with their stories, and donate money if you can. ⤵️
#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
I loved talking with @rudyfraser.com for this episode of #dotsocial
Rudy is one of the most visionary builders and thinkers of the social web today. He helped me realize that the success of the social web is not about killer apps. It's about killer communities. Once you internalize this insight, the entire world looks different.
Check it out here on our PeerTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts.
Meet Starter Sets, a streamlined experience for creating and discovering custom feeds on Surf.
Starter Sets offer hundreds of recommended sources to jumpstart your feed building. They’re organized around popular categories and pre-populated with some of our favorite sources from across the social web and Surf itself.
To use a Starter Set to kickstart your feed, tap on “Create a Feed” and pick a category. Or, start with Custom if you need no inspiration and just want to get building.
Learn more here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/surf-starter-sets-make-custom-feed-building-easy/
And don’t forget to show us what you’re making on Surf by using the hashtag #SurfFeeds when you share.
Questions or feedback? Hit us up anytime at feedback@surf.social.
Today, we're beginning to federate publisher accounts in Italy, France and Spain, and expanding in Brazil, Germany and the U.K.
You can now follow even more of your favorite news, lifestyle, tech and sports sources from Flipboard on the open social web. Read more about it here. See the spreadsheet at the second link for the full list of federated profiles.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit
#Federation #Flipboard #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Germany #Deutschland #France #Spain #España #Italy #Italie #Brazil #Brasil #News #Media #Journalism #Publishers
I just told a room full of newsroom execs and investigative journalists, hopefully coherently, to always start with human problems, do not add AI to their workflows uncritically, and to build and use technology according to their values, with a duty of care for their communities. Privileged to do so and grateful for the opportunity.
Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation. @404media has the story. #GlobalX #Hacktivism #Trump #Deportations #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/DxDLzd
Congratulations to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost on their 12th birthday! Here's John's post reflecting on the idea behind the product, some of the incredible indie publishers who have adopted it (including @404mediaco, @caseynewton's Platformer, and @drownedinsound) and what's next.
#Ghost #IndependentPublishing #IndiePublishing #OpenSource #Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub
What do BTS, Queen, and the Grateful Dead have in common? They all have fan feeds on Surf! Check out The Set List in the Surf Shop to explore music feeds created by fans like @jglypt, @pixelcats and @Sjwillis.
Not on the waitlist yet? Sign up here, and if you're on the waitlist and still patiently awaiting your invitation, drop us a comment.
#SurfFeeds #SurfSocial #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #Music #Entertainment #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse
This seems like news (at least to me) ... From @Flipboard's
most recent video of @pcottle --
"Some people have seen [new #ActivityPub integration] functionality in Brussels previewed....so hoping you will be excited later this year, 2025."
It’s Friday, and that means only one thing: The chance to sleep later than 6.40am for a couple of days unless you’ve got kids, in which case, sooooorrrry. Oh, and also, it’s #NewstodonFriday, where we share fantastic journalism from indie newsrooms and journalists! We’re kicking off this thread with stories on elections to watch in May in the U.S., Australia and Singapore. We’ve also got stories on the Roganification of the male mystique, library censorship, therapy chatbots, plus an absolute banger from Lyz Lenz, in which she coins the phrase “a conclave of chads,” and we admire and envy her absolute mastery of the English language. Check out the thread, comment, like, follow the accounts we’ve tagged, and subscribe/donate to them. ⤵️
#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
I’ve worked in tech for many years, and one of the events that has been a constant part of the calendar is SXSW. I remember signing up for Twitter back in 2007 just after I heard about it while chatting in Roo Reynolds’ office at IBM, from a visitor who had been at SXSW where it first took off (referenced in a post back over here).
That was nearly 20 years ago now – and in all of that time, I never had the opportunity to go to SXSW for the tech part1 of the festival…
This year, our friends at Flipboard created a side event they called Fediverse House, as a eye-catching label for a series of talks and sessions around the open social web
[yes, it was broader than the Fediverse; some other platforms and topics were represented, too. It was great to be able to talk about the Fediverse]
Image credit: Brooks Lawson @brooksI was excited to be able to join the event2, and even more so, I was honoured to be asked to join a panel moderated by the wonderful Mia Quagliarello all about building communities on the new social web. I briefly mentioned this trip on the most recent Mastodon blog post update for our updates during March, but I’m now able to include more about the content here.
Here’s the video of our panel discussion, available on Flipboard’s PeerTube – or, on YouTube for those of you that are not yet Fediverse-enabled, or who want to watch on your TV or something 🙂 I hope I did an OK job, representing the good people of the different communities on the Fediverse. I know that my own experience and perspective is not a universal one and I do my best to reflect that when I talk about our spaces.
As well as this panel, the event included some fantastic talks from folks such as Molly White and Cory Doctorow (clips are on PeerTube); it gave me an opportunity to learn more about the ATProto ecosystem from chatting with the nice folks from Bluesky; I was able to meet writers from one of the best publications on the web today, 404 Media; and, it also provided a chance to spend time IRL with friends from the Fediverse – including the excellent Jeff Sikes, and also people I greatly respect and appreciate from WeDistribute, Sean and Damon.
Guitar sculpture titled ‘Vibrancy’ by Craig Hein, located in downtown AustinAnyway… I still haven’t actually been to SXSW 😄
This year, I did something better than that. Thank you to the Flipboard team for all your work in putting Fediverse House together!
https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/01/fediverse-house-at-sxsw-2025/
#100DaysToOffload #404Media #bluesky #fediverse #flipboard #mastodon #panel #PeerTube #publicSpeaking #speaking #sxsw #Technology #TheOnion #video #WeDistribute
Carlos Uzcategui came to the U.S. legally and hasn’t been charged with any crimes. A video from @WSJ traces how he ended up in an El Salvador mega prison.
https://flip.it/CLjuKB
#Immigration #ElSalvador #US #Immigration #Deportation
Tech Dirt's @mmasnick says that President Donald Trump answers questions in the same way as some AI bots: "The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate."
He provides examples of when that's happened, and asks Google's Gemma2 to answer questions as if they are "the President of the largest country on earth ... a blatant narcissist who believes he can do no wrong."
Masnick says: "What’s particularly notable is that the AI’s response is actually more coherent than Trump’s — it maintains a more consistent narrative structure while hitting the same rhetorical points. This suggests that Trump’s responses are even less constrained by reality than a typical LLM’s output."
#Tech #Technology #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLMs #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump
Looking for new science voices to follow? Here are just a few of our favorite accounts:
Science writer @annaleen
@andrealuck for space images
Biology professor @ct_bergstrom
Ocean scientist @BenjaminHCCarr
Science writer @NatureMC
Climate researcher @Snoro
Science writer @ianrosewrites
Gender bias expert @amydiehl
Health writer @HelenBranswell
