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

submitted 8 months ago by Chozo@kbin.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I can see their profile, but no option to follow them

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 4 points 8 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? 🤷‍♀️)

[-] Falst@lemmy.world 1 points 8 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.