Today, Android support is also now available.įollowing its rollout of Mastodon integration, Flipboard added functionality that lets users follow other people, hashtags or feeds directly from the Flipboard app, and added the latest Mastodon posts to Flipboard users' For You feed. However, Flipboard's Mastodon integration was originally iOS-only. That's a heightened concern under Musk's Twitter management, as the company overnight ripped away API access from a number of apps with no warning and recently changed the pricing, making it out of reach for many developers. In part, the integration is meant to plug a potential hole in Flipboard's server if and when its Twitter API access stops working.

In addition, Flipboard is rolling out support for Mastodon in its own app, allowing users to browse a feed of short updates from the people they follow, reply to, like and boost posts, as well as click on hashtags to follow discussions, among other things. Following its announcement, Flipboard's Mastodon community now has around 500 active members who have established accounts in order to participate on the decentralized social platform. Last month, Flipboard first announced it was joining the Fediverse with plans to integrate with Mastodon, launch its own Mastodon instance, flipboard.social and, later, add support for ActivityPub - the protocol powering Fediverse apps like Mastodon, which has benefited from the chaos surrounding Twitter after Elon Musk's acquisition.

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue will also demonstrate the app's new Mastodon support in a session this morning at FediForum, an online event dedicated to discussions surrounding the challenges facing the Fediverse - the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the newly popular Twitter alternative Mastodon. Magazine app Flipboard is integrating Mastodon in its Android application, as the company broadens its commitment to the federated social web.

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