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Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse

nodes like startrek.website contributing invaluable original content. doing their part for the federation

This is what is going to drive federated social media. Once marketing types can figure out that they won’t need to maintain 12 different social media presences and can host it on their own domain, they’ll gladly subsidize general purpose instances to make it easier for people to access their content.

I think the thing that people are going to struggle with is that the lack of an algorithm spoon feeding them content. This is, of course, a good thing. However the addicts won't get their fix.

Flipboard also supports RSS, allowing you to see your feeds with any software you want!

On Kbin, communities are known as magazines. In the context of Flipboard, this actually kind of makes sense.

enshitification is widespread

I think the Consent-O-Matic extension saved me for this one

But they value your privacy!

howdy partner

I often think this. I use a mix of reeder, feedly, vore, instapaper to see what I like.

However I look at my parents and they’ll use Apple News or whatever news source they trust in a browser.

Flipboard is used because it makes it easy for people to find aggregated information. What’s easier than something that already does the aggregation for you?

Often we take for granted things we consider to be normal. I would think everyone has uBlock Origin installed (i’ve used it for years) or something similar, but this is clearly not the case.

It's pre-installed shovelware on some phones, in my experience.

I’ve used Flipboard for a really long time. Not because I think it’s good or anything, but because I haven’t found anything that’s just so much better whenever I’ve looked. I particularly appreciate the widget on my Home Screen because it usually has at least one thing I’m inspired to read. I did install Feedly, but I don’t use that any more than Flipboard, and it seems to do the exact same thing.

If you or anyone else have recommendations to something tangibly better though, I’m all ears.

I like it better than the browser news walls. But then I still don’t use it much.

Momentum starts with exodus type behavior. This is good.

You can use third party frontends like Nitter on Web or Fritter/Squawker on Android (available on F-Droid) to still follow accounts for info without the requirement of having an account anywhere. With the condition that viewing is the only thing you can do.

I left Twitter over an year ago and I use the frontends I mentioned to follow about 20 accounts for info on varied topics.

Thank fuck. What a shitty article that links the Twitter bullshit but not their new mastodon.

It’s a pity that lemmy still can’t communicate with mastodon.

It can, what do you mean? I've seen people commenting on communities from Mastodon for months