Starting today, users of the social magazine app Flipboard can follow any federated accounts, “meaning those that participate in the social network of interconnected servers known as the fediverse,” writes TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez. “This now includes Threads accounts in addition to Mastodon accounts and others.” From the report: With the update, which deepens Flipboard’s connection with the ActivityPub social graph, any Flipboard user can follow user profiles from any other federated service. If their Flipboard account is also federated, they can interact with those users’ posts and participate in conversations, as well. Flipboard’s user base, however, is currently undisclosed. […] The Flipboard app supports full fediverse integration, but the company hasn’t yet allowed all users to turn on federation as it’s a phased rollout. We’re told the goal is to make federation a setting users can select later this year, similar to how Threads added a “fediverse sharing” option in

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