We've received a few questions lately from the community inquiring about what Flipboard is, so we wanted to share a bit about our mission to inform and inspire the world.
You might also be familiar with our moves to federate our platform.
We are also an award-winning app/website where publishers, creators, and community members curate content about topics ranging from politics to philosophy. If you want to check it out, download it here, follow topics that interest you, and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you.
In December, we started to federate the accounts of some Flipboard publishers and in February, we introduced Magazines to the fediverse. Now, we’re taking two important steps: federating the accounts of 400 creators and expert curators; and enabling two-way communication so that new followers and fediverse activity are visible and actionable in the Flipboard app.
To learn more about this, take a look at our blogpost:
Thanks so much to everyone who has given feedback on what we’ve done so far. We welcome your thoughts and comments as we continue on our journey to fully federate Flipboard.
• How Israel uses AI for assassination in the Gaza War
• A father reflects on his son’s development
• The rise of the term, “gaslighting”
• Toni Morrison’s expansive rejection letters
• The history of PostSecret
Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
What does it mean to federate your Flipboard profile? In the simplest terms, it means that whatever you curate (aka share) on Flipboard will be "syndicated" out to the fediverse with no extra effort. @miaq tests it out and breaks it down.
We’re not expecting many surprises at this Sunday’s Oscars ceremony — if “Oppenheimer” doesn’t win Best Picture, we’ll eat Oppy’s fedora hat, and when it comes to the two main contenders for Best Actress, we think Gladstone has the edge over Stone (though they both rock). Far more interesting to us are the stories around the edges. Here's our blogpost, with stories from @TheConversationUS@hollywoodreporter@variety_feed, Entertainment Weekly and more, plus an incredible video from The Academy about how the special effects from nominated movies were put together.
We'll be curating stories in our @theculturedesk Magazine, @oscars-2024-theculturedesk, and highlighting key moments from our @CultureDesk account here.
After an online training on #ReadersAdvisory for Millennials and Generation Z, I made a mega list on Libby called “Romantasy” and ended up needing arthritis cream on my wrist today with all the mouse work. Overdrive findability is tough. Metadata is scant. Neither author nor genre searches recovered most of these. It’s almost like they want to bury your old content licences. #Romantasy#LibbyApp#librarian#bookstodon#ebooks#curation @bookstodon @librarians
For over a decade, @Flipboard's in-house editorial team has been curating the world’s best journalism around the clock. But to access this curation, you had to use the Flipboard app or visit flipboard.com.
Now we’ve decided to federate our Flipboard editorial profiles and their related Magazines in order to make our collections available to everyone on Mastodon and other Fediverse networks.
Here's what we're up to. Would love your feedback!
@coggins - techie, novelist, podcaster and photographer posting gorgeous scene-setting chapter illustrations (with a relevant quote) from his upcoming book
@stellakalaw is not just curating individual pictures for #mastodon, she’s thinking about the selections as part of a holistic body of work. Her #curation also invites lessons in photographers and photography history worth exploring further.
Here’s an overview of her process and why we’re so grateful to have her eye for a few months on the @Flipboard Photo Desk.
I'm always so curious about the ingredients of a great #playlist. Music curator extraordinaire Kasey Gelsomino, the creator of "Oat Milk Lattes in the Mountains" on #spotify and Kasey's Playlist on #tiktok, shared her secrets with me in today's podcast conversation for @Flipboard:
Looking for some reads about #photography for the weekend? @flakphoto has curated another monthly roundup of interesting and visually pleasing stories.
Ever been moved to tears just thinking about the beauty and impact of #art?
It happened during this episode of @Flipboard's The Art of Curation podcast — an interview with two security guards from the Baltimore Museum of Art who participated in curating the "Guarding the Art" show in 2022.
It was refreshing to hear from people with a great appreciation for art, but who are often overlooked when it comes to sharing their opinions about it.
Museum guards spend hours with the artifacts they watch over, so of course they’re going to have opinions about #art and #curation. Get to know 2 of the guards who participated in the Baltimore Museum of Art's 2022 show, “Guarding the Art.” They’re not just protecting the art; they’re in a relationship with it and how people react to it. Just talking about the profound impact of art moved one guard to tears, and for that alone, I love this interview.
Our social media feeds are shaped by algorithms, and that means the things we see, experience and like in the real world are too. The New Yorker's @chaykak has written about this "algorithmication" in "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture," which will be out in January 2024. @miaq interviewed him for @Flipboard's podcast, The Art of Curation. Here's the episode and some info about what they discussed.
At a music festival I once noticed I was surrounded by the House x Techno bomber — a jacket I had seen in my own feed. The algorithm knew me — knew all of us — and I was seeing its effects IRL.
But what does this phenomenon mean for our culture at large? How can it be that algos are shrinking and expanding our horizons at the same time? How will #generativeAI impact culture?
What’s it like being a first-mover #curator on Mastodon? Just ask Sabine Stoye, who runs the beloved @viewfinderCurator and @artskorps accounts. A linguist with a passion for the arts, Sabine shares why she’s made her curatorial home on #Mastodon and what she looks for when boosting #artists and #photographers on the platform.