Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you can follow people from places like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed right inside Flipboard.
How do people like Flipboard? I need to find something to get news now that I’m off Reddit. Is it pretty decent at giving different perspectives in articles or is it pretty much algorithm based on what you’ll prefer?
It’s fancy. Sync for Lemmy really lets you customize things, but I do like the default Flipoard flip actions, font sizes, layout. You can make custom groupings of content you want to view. I forget what the branded term is, but it’s like you can make your own magazine and flip through it.
RSS reader is how I’ve gone tbh.
I dont want my news being chosen by a social media algorithm
How did you go about setting your RSS feed up? I want to get into it, but am unsure how to generate a reliable full-coverage feed. Any decent setup guides out there?
Use an app like inoreader to discover feeds.
I personally have programmed my own and host it on web, this is what it looks like: https://me-cfs.github.io/yann/personalhost/newsrssfeed/
Here’s the list (in js but readable) of all my feeds, gives you an idea of what a well rounded rss feed looks like: https://me-cfs.github.io/yann/personalhost/newsrssfeed/feedlist.js
That’s kind of what I was worried about, was if it was algorithm based, and if it was, how bad is it pushing content vs showing me what I would be interested in. RSS feeds may be difficult cause I never really committed to any specific publications or sites, so I wouldn’t have any specific ones to populate the feed.
I kinda like it. It’s sort of a self-curated magazine. It takes a while to get it tweaked for my personal preferences.
So, in my opinion, it’s a little like Lemmy, but focused more on the links than the conversation around them. Also, much more glossy and polished than Lemmy.
It’s worth checking out, and I’m quite happy that they seem to be gradually adding Fediverse support.
Ty! Will have to look into it some! My problem is I don’t have any specific preferred news sites already so I guess I’ll be just spamming big ones til it gets sorted out a bit? I’d also like to keep it as balanced as possible, if not just to be prepared for potential points of conflict to be knowledgeable on.
I’ve been using Flipboard since 2012 and with the ebb and flow of how news is consumed over the last 12 years I think Flipboard has stayed true to its original goal, a simple news aggregator app . I remember when they first introduced ads into the app I was almost turned off, but the ads ended up being formatted similar to the news article so they weren’t intrusive to my experience.
There’s been a few news sources that are garbage but I just mute them and never see them in my feed. I think after 12 years the app has figured out my interests xD
I also read a lot of news in Spanish and the app does a good job of including non-US publications
I just use Lemmy. Follow the right communities and I don’t feel like I’m in the dark in any way.
