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Flipping the Federation Switch: Flipboard joins the fediverse | The Fediverse Report (fediversereport.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

As Flipboards Magazines do not easily map onto the structure that other fediverse platforms use. The closest analogue might be PeerTube’s Channels, which also don’t federate.

Has Laurens never heard of kbin?

[–] laurens@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hello from my Kbin account!

I agree that this part of the article is not well developed, and I should have probably rewritten it. What I was trying to get at is that Flipboard has a hierarchy that is unique: The Actor owns a Group, with the Actor being the highest level, and the Magazine below it.

While you could probably map a Flipboard Magazine onto a ActivityPub Group similarly like a Kbin Magazine is a Group, the intended usecase is still quite different, even though they are both link-aggregators. I dont think this is an insurmountable problem per se, but I dont agree that Kbins Magazines are super similar to Flipboards Magazines. If you wanted an fediverse comparison, I think Flipboards Magazines are actually way closer to the Postmarks.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fair enough, thanks for the response. I highly appreciate your work!

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