Fediverse @lemmy.world JohnWorks @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Flipboard is making a new app for the fediverse

www.theverge.com Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social

This might be the first great fediverse app.

Looks like it’s for feeds and the fediverse

Technologie - 🤖 @jlai.lu Restach' @jlai.lu 3d ago

Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social

www.theverge.com /2024/12/18/24323903/flipboard-surf-fediverse-social-web-app

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Isn't this what Friendica/Hubzilla does?
I don’t write you a separate kind of email because you’re on Gmail, right?

Dude gets it.

I also think the term Fediverse is to esoteric and Social web is perfect for the masses.
- It’s a term for insiders. My mother will never talk about “the fediverse.”
  
  The “Open Social Web” is a much better term. It tells you everything you need to know.
  
  A little too long and generic. I think Fediverse is fine as long as we treat it as a name and don't force people to necessarily understand what it means. People understand names, they're the most human thing there is
  
  It just sounds really dumb. The word "federation" was right there.
- Oh, man, I hadn't heard the "it's like email" nonsense since I stopped daily driving Mastodon. Real nostalgia going on here.
  
  What makes it nonsense?
This is exactly what we need to get the masses off corporate social media sites.

An app that shows content from across social services has more appeal than being on just bluesky or insta.
Since I tried searching for the URL and didn't find it, but happened to see this thread, you can see more info and sign up here:

https://surf.social/
- FYI, these are the current options for social networks
  
  The blog states it's still missing a lot of stuff and it's a work in progress. If they have to implement every type of fediverse post like peertube, Pixelfed. Loops, etc it's gonna take some effort.
  
  I assume that's the goal after reading the post but of course we will see.
flipboard the everything app?
I JUST foung out about this, and was about to post this exact same thing. Except I was debating whether to post the Daily Tech News Show episode with timestamp, or if I should post the Engadget article I found.

AAAHHH!!!!! IT MAKES ME EXCITED!!!!

Please let this come to Android!!! AND!!! The Flipboard company itself is now part of the Fediverse! So this app may end up being the most complete way to browse and experience PeerTube. I've tried 3 different times now to browse Peertube, and 3 different times I've gotten WILDLY different experiences. Part of the problem is I don't have a peertube account. I don't know which instance to sign up on.

But with an app like this, I could sign up somewhere, and just pull all the feeds of my own interest into ME. I could search all the instances for my own interests, instead of searching for instances, and hoping there's something on that instance that matches my interests.

I've been in a tech mood lately. I've frankensteined the hell out of my PC.
The same Flipboard that was forced on so many Samsung phone owners? Fuuuck that. I literally rooted my phone to get rid of that shit.
If this works, and works well, it could be a game changer for decentralized platforms.
It has Bluesky support. Neat!
Surf app is interesting.

Seems like grayjay but with more variety and based on fediverse
Found it mostly shares stories behind a paywall. Pass.

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