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Flipboard has begun testing ActivityPub federation of user accounts (flipboard.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mike McCue - Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our #ActivityPub integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the #Fediverse. Curious to hear your thoughts on how this is working. We’ll incorporate your feedback as we make more progress on federating Flipboard. Stay tuned for lots more soon.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's because they're a user, not a community. Lemmy doesn't let us follow users (at least not yet).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Hm, so what does this mean for federating his "posts" to Lemmy/my instance?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It means as far as I'm aware, that ain't happening. You'd have to follow from something that supports following users (Mastodon is the obvious, but does Kbin do this? 🤷‍♀️)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t know how I’d feel about following users from Lemmy TBH. It’d feel like trying to compete with Mastodon or other microblogging platforms and I’m not sure we need it in this space.

I’d find it interesting to have a unique identity for services in the fediverse instead.