Another walled garden is opening up to the new social web.

The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch its user accounts to ActivityPub, which means that everyone curating stuff on Flipboard is now doing so in a way that apps like Mastodon can see and interact with.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Isn’t bringing people to it a quite important thing ?

    I know this is a polarizing subject but in my opinion there is not much as important as increasing a social network userbase.

    I’m sticking to Lemmy, but I’m pragmatic, I know it may never grow enough so that a niche community can live.

    Right now my favorite game doesn’t have a community and even if I create one and actively post to it I know we will have 3/4 people subscribe to it at peak.

    Overwatch has a very small community on Lemmy even though it’s a pretty huge game still. It’s thousands of time smaller than the subreddit. I accepted it and moved on but that kind of sucks.

    So bringing users and content creators to Lemmy through other more mainstream social networks through activityPub is fine by me. As long as you control when to cut the cord I don’t really see the issue.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yes, it’s important with one very important distinction. We want more people that are going to make the place better, not worse. Bringing threads people here isn’t likely to do that. What if we block them until we have our feet under us with great people, then we can decide if it’s worth it. This would be way easier than building a new fediverse. Also, start inviting small forums to check out your community to make it thrive, not huge userbases with hellish corporate overlords.

      Do you know how I know the people coming over won’t be great? Not a single person has ever brought up how great the people who would be coming over would be. It’s only, there would be more.

      • atocci@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        I don’t necessarily want more people, just the people I have interest in following. Most of those people didn’t stick around here for more than a couple weeks after the Twitter takeover though.