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2026-06-12 23:54:36 UTC

Times are hard for journalists, and they're getting harder. Peter Thiel has teamed up with a legal strategist called Aron D’Souza to create Objection, a tech startup that uses AI to assess the legitimacy of articles. Gary Baum writes for @nprofile…fjey about his experience being the first reporter to be taken to an "AI tribunal," over an article he wrote about Purdue Pharma heir Michael Sackler.
https://flip.it/hC9uy_
#Journalism #AI #Technology

2026-05-19 17:01:07 UTC

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@nprofile…dg43 @nprofile…z4c3
Hi Miguel, double checking that this is working for you again?

2026-05-18 20:26:48 UTC

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@nprofile…dg43 @nprofile…z4c3 Thanks for flagging! This is happening for us too — we'll follow up.

2026-04-22 17:51:21 UTC

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HI @nprofile…8vfh so sorry for the delay on this! Please could you let us know your Flipboard user name and we'll get right to federating?

2026-04-15 22:18:24 UTC

A new startup, Objection, aims to use AI to judge the "truth" of journalism. @nprofile…h0ra's Rebecca Ballard talked to founder Aron D'Souza, who also co-created the Enhanced Games, about the Peter Thiel-backed venture.
https://flip.it/npOOPv
#Journalism #Media #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

2026-04-15 19:52:51 UTC

Search traffic is way down for news publishers, thanks to AI summaries, but clicks from social media are dropping too. NiemanLab looks at Chartbeat's data for traffic and time spent on publishers' sites from X and Facebook.
https://flip.it/8cNeZz
#News #Media #Journalism #SocialMedia

2026-04-14 19:27:27 UTC

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Thanks for everything you’ve done for the fediverse, @nprofile…6pqf, and all the best for whatever wonderful step comes next!

2026-03-27 23:29:47 UTC

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Find the Dot Social playlist here and discover past episodes with @nprofile…9g8s, @nprofile…dysu, @nprofile…a0jn, @nprofile…pncn and more.
https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Fediverse

2026-03-27 23:27:15 UTC

When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, Tori White saw an opportunity.
On the latest Dot Social, @nprofile…94mh sits down with Skylight Social's CEO to talk about building a creator-first video platform on the AT Protocol. Watch the episode here, or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
https://flipboard.video/w/c9tgxs6U6WonWJwAXYh9vH
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ATProto #ATmosphereConf #Skylight #TikTok

2026-03-26 21:33:46 UTC

The average American received no push notifications from a news organization in the last week, and only 16% pay for news. In a new series, Nieman Lab digs into how people get their information. First up: Sophie, a 37-year-old minister and mom of two who lives in Minneapolis.
https://flip.it/wfdAAL
#News #Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry

2026-03-23 22:21:49 UTC

Veteran Voice of America journalists are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, claiming the network is broadcasting propaganda. Here's more from @nprofile…2qhs.
https://flip.it/FRq0Xb
#Journalism #Media #VoiceOfAmerica #KariLake

2026-03-20 19:37:57 UTC

CBS News Radio, which was established in 1927, is to shutter in May as part of cuts announced by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski today. Here's more from @nprofile…vt2w.
https://flip.it/jAEWeb
#CBS #Media #News #Radio

2026-03-19 22:42:31 UTC

Small publishers (1,000-10,000 daily page views) are experiencing the worst traffic declines in the AI era, Axios reports, based on data from Chartbeat. Our managing editor @nprofile…4qce writes about how Flipboard is working with independent and worker-owned publications to drive people to their sites. At the second link, find @nprofile…eepw's story on the latest traffic stats.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ode-to-independent-media/
https://flip.it/uhVLNO
#Media #Journalism #Internet #AI

2026-03-18 18:17:32 UTC

We’re kicking off season 3 of Dot Social with a conversation between our CEO, @nprofile…jdhl, and @nprofile…anhz and @nprofile…50px of @nprofile…m99x. Watch the episode here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts:
https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/c0dfea13-7f2a-402c-b47c-50ccd151554b
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #AltStore #Federation #Fediverse

2026-03-09 18:10:29 UTC

In a survey of 25 countries, the United States was the only county in which more adults describe the morality of their compatriots as bad than good. 53% of respondents said that the morality and ethics of other people in their country is either somewhat or very bad. Since this is a new question for Pew Research, the team says they don't know whether this is a long-held view or something new. A million miles away in sentiment, but just kilometres away geographically, 92% of Canadians think other Canadians are either very good or somewhat good.
https://flip.it/bFGW8O
#USNews #CanadianNews #Morality #Data

2026-03-05 17:49:46 UTC

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@nprofile…m6fe 🙌🏻

2026-03-02 18:56:50 UTC

What is Looksmaxxing, who is Clavicular and what was wrong with The New York Times' most recent story about both? Digital culture expert Jamie Cohen breaks it down in this Medium post.
https://flip.it/cQbIZq
#Looksmaxxing #Clavicular #Media #NewYorkTimes #Culture #InternetCulture

2026-02-27 17:52:41 UTC

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@nprofile…t64l This link should be followable now:
@nprofile…p83s

2026-02-27 17:46:45 UTC

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HI @nprofile…t64l, Sahan Journal has a Flipboard account, https://flipboard.com/@SahanJournal. We just federated it so you will be able to follow it over here shortly at @[email protected]. That can take a while as their account won't become visible until they publish a new story.

2026-02-27 00:52:23 UTC

"We’re doing everything we can to support publishers that produce real journalism — original, fact-based and quality reporting — just as we have for the past 15 years," wrote our managing editor @nprofile…4qce in his latest blogpost. Learn more about our work to support indie and worker-owned outlets here:
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ode-to-independent-media/
#Flipboard #Journalism #Media #IndependentJournalism

2026-02-26 16:57:23 UTC

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@nprofile…3hyr Thanks for flagging this! We will let the team know.

2026-02-25 22:43:52 UTC

New episodes of @nprofile…avgw coming soon!
#DotSocial #Podcast #Technology #Tech #Decentralization

2026-02-24 19:11:29 UTC

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@nprofile…qe94 Hi! We hear you on Substack and understand why you choose not to engage with it. However it's the tool a lot of indie journalists choose to use when they go solo, and they do a lot of important reporting — like this story, which benefited probably hundreds of Londoners. We don't know Jim Waterson and his team, but would encourage him to migrate his site to another provider if we did! #NotABot

2026-02-24 18:55:42 UTC

Local journalism matters, example number one-billion (approximately). After a report by London Centric, an independent site founded by ex-Guardian journalist Jim Waterson, a billionaire landlord has shelved plans to carry out mass evictions across London. Here's more from London Centric on how their story made a difference.
https://flip.it/1YzcIu
#London #Journalism #Media #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews

2026-02-21 01:46:54 UTC

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Congrats, @nprofile…s3a4 — fantastic work!

2026-02-20 18:49:03 UTC

@nprofile…zeh9 is changing course when it comes to how people join the platform. In late 2022, the team decided to send sign-ups directly to their server in order to make onboarding more straightforward. But that didn't align with the promise of decentralization. Here, Community Director @nprofile…r6ca explains the new approach to server recommendation, along with some other ways Mastodon is helping build community.
https://flip.it/1bWN26
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Decentralization #ActivityPub #Community #Technology #Tech

2026-02-17 23:47:26 UTC

Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom? @nprofile…8txc says the value is in protocols that allow people — all people around the world — to build and own communities that address their needs. "The only way to achieve that is to not just co-design with them but distribute equity. They must be full co-owners of the open social web," he writes.
https://flip.it/zjR0kR
#OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Mastodon

2026-02-11 18:13:26 UTC

Those of us who work in the news business are highly aware of the perilous situation for local outlets, and how bad that could be for communities and democracy. The general public. however, don't seem to know or care. Here's NiemanLab's story on the results of new survey of adults who live in U.S. news deserts and news oases.
https://flip.it/CK5iri
#News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews

2026-02-11 18:09:15 UTC

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@nprofile…80v9 Oh, and we are DEFINITELY not owned by Meta!

2026-02-11 18:08:58 UTC

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HI @nprofile…80v9! We have federated many of our Flipboard accounts, which allows you to follow them in the fediverse. Here's an up-to-date spreadsheet of which accounts are available. There typically isn't much conversation/dialogue with publishers because they use RSS to add their content to Flipboard. However one advantage is that their content is typically organized topically into Magazines (for example, @nprofile…7eer is the main account, whereas @nprofile…rxpm is just the science coverage). That means your entire feed won't be flooded with every single thing an outlet publishes if you follow the account and you can just check out the things you're interested in.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit?gid=1764807022#gid=1764807022

2026-02-10 17:56:15 UTC

Last week's cuts at The Washington Post were even worse than initially reported. An accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, says nearly half the paper's newsroom was eliminated. Here's more from Washingtonian.
https://flip.it/c9PXlk
#Journalism #Media #News #WashingtonPost

2026-01-20 22:24:52 UTC

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark poured nearly $200 million into supporting journalism, but says he's shifting focus now, telling the Chronicle of Philanthropy: "A lot of my efforts haven’t been as effective as I’d like them to be." He talked to Nieman Lab's Sarah Scrire about the key thing he's learned — that audience development is everything.
https://flip.it/XFbZpv
#Journalism #Media #News #MediaIndustry

2026-01-20 00:21:07 UTC

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@nprofile…exvm Yes! The Flipboard/Surf Slack channels were popping!
"Have you followed this whole open social web movement basically the what, what Blue Sky is or Surf is? Yeah. I mean I, to me that's here, here is now what I think is the top thing. We need to require these of these big tech platforms. They need to be compatible with the open social web. They, they should be required by law. If you're X, if you're Facebook, if you're TikTok to be compatible with the open social web, what does that mean? Now I can take all my followers, all my contacts from those other platforms and construct my own social media graph where I don't have to have the algorithmic chunk."

2026-01-20 00:08:55 UTC

Open social media has a new fan: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna. The congressman for California's 17th Congressional District appeared on Kara Swisher's "On" podcast last week and talked about Bluesky, @nprofile…05gk, and the importance of being able to construct your own social graph, take your followers where you go, and opt out of algorithms. Here's the full episode:
https://flip.it/G01JHr
#SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial #Bluesky #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #ATProto #ActivityPub

2026-01-19 23:10:43 UTC

Google search traffic to publishers declined globally by a third last year, according to new Chartbeat data. In the U.S. only, referrals from organic Google search were down by 38% year on year. "The report noted that publishers that specialise in lifestyle or utility content such as weather, TV guides, or horoscopes were more likely to have seen traffic declines, linking it to the arrival of Google’s AI summaries at the top of search results from 2024." Here's the full story from Press Gazette.
https://flip.it/PK.JXL
#Technology #Tech #Journalism #Media #Google #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Lifestyle

2026-01-19 22:52:38 UTC

Here we go again," said a fellow politics reporter to @[email protected]'s Andrew Feinberg when Trump took office a year ago. Here's his story on how the second Trump term has differed from the first — where once he and the rest of the press pool benefited from the famously leaky White House, they are now treated as "the enemy of the people" by Trump and those he surrounds himself with.
https://flip.it/wcz1Wv
#Journalism #News #TrumpAdministration

2026-01-05 23:45:42 UTC

The U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit that helped fund NPR, PBS and local radio and TV stations, is officially shutting down due to spending cuts authorized by President Donald Trump last summer. The board of directors voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years of service after it was stripped of more than $1 billion in funding. Here's more from NBC.
https://flip.it/Ub7f.C
#Media #Journalism #TrumpAdministration #NPR #PBS #PublicBroadcasting

2025-12-19 22:18:13 UTC

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@nprofile…y4pm @nprofile…t8sa Fantastic! We just released a new beta with some performance improvements etc., and lots to come!

2025-12-19 21:55:59 UTC

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Thanks so much @nprofile…t8sa, much appreciated!

2025-12-18 21:13:49 UTC

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@nprofile…3mwc Thanks Tim — we appreciate the kind words! Happy Holidays!

2025-12-02 22:28:12 UTC

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We added you to our list — thanks Gareth! @nprofile…fjxs

2025-12-01 21:00:48 UTC

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@nprofile…pwf2 They don't appear to be active over here anymore, unfortunately, though great that their Threads account is federated!

2025-12-01 20:59:57 UTC

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@nprofile…7vxp @nprofile…xqy4 Adding to the list!

2025-11-29 01:05:36 UTC

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@nprofile…vjty @nprofile…47ey D'oh, yes!

2025-11-28 23:36:18 UTC

Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰
Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.
404 Meda, @nprofile…wwxt
 Bolts, @nprofile…mucy
Brian Merchant, @nprofile…qvjf
Casey Newton, @nprofile…c5gc
Cory Doctorow, @nprofile…998y
 Joan Westenberg , @nprofile…4gvd
 GBH News, @nprofile…mfqm
 Knowable Magazine @nprofile…2fea
The New York Review of Books, @nprofile…0qxs
 ProPublica, @nprofile…k02x
Rest of World, @nprofile…m60z
San Francisco Public Press, @nprofile…a5x2
Steve Herman, @nprofile…8u43
The Texas Observer, @nprofile…hk4v
The Continent, @nprofile…n4hs
 The Conversation, @nprofile…xytr
The Transmitter, @nprofile…7vnh
The Tyee, @nprofile…35gu
 The Xylom, @nprofile…qjqg
 The Tucson Sentinel, @nprofile…0l28
Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @nprofile…lm6m
#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday

2025-11-18 21:46:46 UTC

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Congratulations for all your incredible achievements, and thank you for all you've done, @nprofile…pqg8.

2025-10-31 23:32:55 UTC

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@nprofile…tu80 🙌🏻 🙌🏻 🙌🏻

2025-10-31 23:20:02 UTC

15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@nprofile…p84u spoke with @nprofile…gja4's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @nprofile…cxsz, and our role in the future of publishing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025/10/30/flipboard-ceo-mike-mccue-on-the-15-year-old-app-were-just-getting-started/
#Technology #Tech #Media #Journalism #Publishing #Flipboard #Apps #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial

2025-10-21 19:54:52 UTC

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HI @nprofile…ltd9, will check this out for you!

2025-10-21 19:54:21 UTC

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@nprofile…h3ed You're the best!

2025-10-16 23:05:20 UTC

AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
https://flip.it/6VypfN
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Slop #Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry #Google #Technology #Tech

2025-10-14 23:52:40 UTC

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@nprofile…ag04 Thanks so much!

2025-10-14 23:02:07 UTC

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HI @nprofile…ag04, we do not accept political ads on Flipboard so this should be removed for all users, however we need your help in tracking this down. Would you be able to either report it in the app via Settings > Help & Contact us or send us a screenshot via private message here? Thanks so much!

2025-10-14 18:19:09 UTC

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HI @nprofile…ag04, we'll look into this for you right away!

2025-10-07 18:10:54 UTC

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Amazing news @nprofile…803y! Congrats!

2025-10-06 19:48:11 UTC

After 29 years of being associated with NBC News, MSNBC is becoming independent, starting with breaking its relationships with correspondents and crews, and ending with a name change to MS NOW. Poynter Institute reports on the official 10 principles of reporting that were circulated to newsrooms staff today, and interviews Brian Carovillano senior vice president of standards and editorial partnerships, about the way forward.
https://flip.it/lN2q.R
#News #Media #Journalism #MSNBC #NBC

2025-10-06 17:45:01 UTC

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Thanks @nprofile…kgu0 and hi @nprofile…a83w! We have federated many of our publisher partners so you can follow them in the fediverse. Here's a list of all federated accounts. PressProgress doesn't seem to have a Flipboard account — please drop us a DM here if you'd like to learn more about onboarding!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit

2025-10-03 20:16:09 UTC

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Thanks @nprofile…yd4f for helping everyone have a better fedi experience!

2025-10-02 20:44:25 UTC

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@nprofile…034u @nprofile…mpj6 @nprofile…hx87 @nprofile…vmmn Oh boo! We will take you out of our post, just for accuracy's sake! Unconference is like a box of chocolates...

2025-10-01 19:30:18 UTC

"The days of us being able to walk on [to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" @nprofile…ncxj's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people from social media platforms that we don’t control to platforms that we do control, this business isn’t going to work and we aren’t going to have jobs anymore.” This led the team at 404 to ask readers for email addresses and put older stories behind paywalls, which totally transformed their business. Here's more from NiemanLab on what 404, The Economist and El País have learned about how to attract and retain readers in today's media environment.
https://flip.it/US6PS0
#Media #Journalism #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #Newsletters #MediaIndustry

2025-10-01 19:08:43 UTC

FediForum is coming up. It's an unconference, so the agenda is set by the attendees, but we do know that it will be unmissable, featuring a keynote from @nprofile…mpj6 and sessions from people like @nprofile…hx87, @nprofile…vmmn, @nprofile…034u and more. Here's the schedule, plus some of what's on the cards.
https://fediforum.org/2025-10/
#FediForum #Fediverse #OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Developers #Conference #UnConference

2025-08-26 22:57:31 UTC

Columnist Philip Bump left the Washington Post last month after accepting a buyout. For his Pbump blog, he writes about power — who has it and is using it responsibly and how to preserve your own — and why he is not a fan of Twitter/X or Substack. "There’s value to debate and conversation, of course, but that isn’t what’s fostered on Twitter or (in my limited experience) on Substack. Instead, conversation occasionally glimmers through a waterfall of bad-faith, uninformed trolls and attacks. It’s an effort to play a college football game after the crowd has stormed the field."
https://flip.it/cVKlO2
#Journalism #Media #SocialMedia #Twitter #Substack #WashingtonPost

2025-08-25 19:04:42 UTC

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@nprofile…3zpn @nprofile…7lvn Hi Miguel, so sorry about this, the engineers are on it but it is not easy to resolve. Currently the site is loading for us on web — albeit slowly and with a lot of unreliability.

2025-08-22 23:05:14 UTC

Just two more days to vote for our SXSW panels, and then we'll stop going on about them until next March 🤞.
Cast your votes to see @nprofile…el04 talking to Rudy Fraser of Blacksky about community building, and Patreon's Jack Conte about creator independence.
https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting?search=flipboard
#SXSW #Flipboard #CommunityBuilding #Blacksky #RudyFraser #Creator #CreatorEconomy #Patreon

2025-08-22 18:32:10 UTC

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Huge, huge congrats, @nprofile…p9x3 and team — we're so proud to have 404 on Flipboard!

2025-08-14 20:22:16 UTC

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We want to go to SXSW again! Vote for our two panels to see @nprofile…el04 talk to Blacksky's Rudy Fraser about building thriving, independent communities, and Patreon's Jack Conte about creator independence and discovery (learn more about both at this link).
https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting?search=flipboard

2025-08-14 20:20:28 UTC

@nprofile…eznj is one of the most interesting tech critics out there, covering subjects like crypto industry spending in politics, Web3, and the tech industry as a whole with integrity and (sometimes) optimism. She spoke to NiemanLab about her Follow the Crypto site, her love of RSS, migrating from Substack to @nprofile…cyge, and more. At the second and third links find her DotSocial conversation with @nprofile…el04 and an extract from her Fediverse House presentation at last year's SXSW.
https://flip.it/N3o96i
https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r
#DotSocial #SXSW #MollyWhite #Crypto #Technology #Tech #RSS #Ghost

2025-08-13 16:03:42 UTC

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@nprofile…3zpn So sorry for the inconvenience, this should be fixed.

2025-08-12 17:30:15 UTC

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@nprofile…3zpn @nprofile…7lvn Yes, exactly! It's been a little iffy for us this morning but seems ok now!

2025-08-11 23:50:19 UTC

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Hi @nprofile…3zpn! It should be fixed now!

2025-08-11 23:33:40 UTC

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HI @nprofile…3zpn, yes, something seems to be broken. Our engineers are taking a look — in the meantime you can copy/paste your URL and use the Create a flip button to add to Magazines when you're on the web, though we appreciate this is not as quick as the servlet (which we also use!).

2025-08-11 17:04:20 UTC

Ford says it's cracked the code on cheap EVs, thanks to more streamlined manufacturing processes and lithium iron phosphate batteries that the company says are more durable, faster charging and more affordable than what it currently uses. There will be more use of automation and robots, but the company declined to specify how this compares to current manufacturing. Ford announced a "family" of low-cost vehicles that will be made in Kentucky, starting with a four-door mid-sized pickup that will arrive in 2027 and will cost $30,000. Here's more from @nprofile…zndp.
https://flip.it/ayD2Vl
#ElectricVehicles #EVs #Ford #Automotive #Robots #Automation

2025-08-08 23:43:48 UTC

Local newspapers are going out of business across the world — but when Illinois-based News Media Corporation closed last week, shuttering dozens of publications across the midwest, some communities fought back. WyoFile reports on the Wyoming towns where journalists are continuing to report as they seek backing to keep their papers alive, while their community members and neighbors raise money to ensure they keep getting paid. "We’ve got big city issues in small towns. So this is really very tragic timing,” says Marie Hamilton, managing editor of the Platte County Record-Times.
https://flip.it/SdGiMb
#Media #Journalism #News #UnitedStates #Midwest #Wyoming

2025-08-05 22:34:46 UTC

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🥳 🥳 🥳 @nprofile…wj47

2025-08-05 20:49:01 UTC

@nprofile…5mw3's latest piece for @nprofile…7tup is an absolute must-read if you're interested in democracy, technology, and the possibility of a better future.
"The solution isn’t building better platforms — it’s making platforms an obsolete concept. Platforms concentrate power; protocols distribute it. Platforms extract value from users; protocols enable users to create value for themselves. Most importantly: platforms can be captured by bad actors, but protocols resist capture by design."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/
#Technology #PeopleNotPlatforms #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Bluesky #ATProto #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb

2025-08-05 20:04:27 UTC

🗳️ Voting is open for #SXSW
Cast your vote to bring @nprofile…el04 and Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser to SXSW! They’ll discuss what it takes to build inclusive, sustainable social platforms — and what the open social web means for creators, communities and the future of connection.
https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1753398895508001R33R
#SXSW2026 #SouthBySouthWest #Communities #Blacksky #SocialWeb #OpenSocial #BlackMastodon #Creator #Community #OnlineCommunities @nprofile…wmxm

2025-08-01 17:59:28 UTC

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@nprofile…asy0 Looks like a great night out — we wish we could have joined you (and in fact, we're pretty sure we know exactly where you were!).

2025-07-30 18:58:40 UTC

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Happy 15, @nprofile…h3ne, and thanks for everything!

2025-07-30 18:39:31 UTC

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@nprofile…4ey9 Yes, it's been called out only for its headlines and sanewashing Trump, vs. LATimes, which has had the huge interference from its owner, who even attended a meeting with Trump and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Washington Post isn't on the list, but Amazon gets four chickens, partly based on Jeff Bezos's using the paper to curry favor with Trump.

2025-07-30 16:52:41 UTC

How do you measure editorial independence in 2025? The advocacy group Free Press has created a Media Capitulation Index, ranking commercial media and tech companies on a scale from one to five chickens, and giving a star to just a couple of organizations. Here's Nieman Lab's story; find the full ranking at the second link. “These corporations exist because of public policy,” Tim Karr, the author of a supplementary report on the ranking, told journalist Margaret Sullivan. “There is a genuine popular movement to create a more democratic media system. People should get engaged in this debate.”
https://flip.it/_8EBIJ
https://flip.it/nTlbD-
#Journalism #Media #Democracy #NewYorkTimes #Bloomberg #FoxNews #TrumpAdministration

2025-07-25 18:30:13 UTC

Good news! You can now find @nprofile…yngv on Flipboard and in the fediverse, thanks to their federated account. Follow them for coverage of sports, pop culture, and more.
https://flipboard.com/@defector

2025-07-23 16:07:49 UTC

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Thanks so much @nprofile…3wy7!

2025-07-22 23:16:08 UTC

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@nprofile…xt5t 🎂 🎂 🎂

2025-07-22 22:57:31 UTC

The iPad. Rainbow Looms. "Inception." They all arrived on the scene in 2010 — and so did we. In 2025, we're celebrating Flipboard's 15th birthday. Here's to the next 15 and more! Check out the spreadsheet here to discover all the Magazines you can find in the fediverse — and comment below if there's a publication you'd love us to federate.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/15-years-of-flipboard/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit?gid=1764807022#gid=1764807022
#Flipboard #FlipboardMagazines #ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb

2025-07-21 18:24:48 UTC

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Thanks @nprofile…k57s
We love to hear the types of publishers and content people are looking for on Mastodon. I have sent your request to our publisher team so stay tuned, and please let us know if there are any other Flipboard publishers you'd be keen to see in the fediverse.

2025-07-17 16:16:05 UTC

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@nprofile…09x3 Oh! Thanks for reporting — we'll look into this! It would be really helpful if you could screenshot and let us know the device you're using.

2025-07-16 20:00:10 UTC

With social and search traffic declining, publishers need new ways to connect with readers.
In this #DotSocial episode,
@nprofile…el04 talks with @nprofile…ncxj's @nprofile…p9x3 and @nprofile…j3rp's
@nprofile…mpj6 about the benefits of decentralization.
"I think what's really missing is the human to human connection and the human curation ... Our informal tagline is by humans for humans. We really just want someone to look at our stuff and send it to their friends in a group text or talk about it out loud or add it to a stream on the fediverse," Jason says.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
#Podcast #DotSocial #Media #Journalism #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Fediverse #OpenSocial
https://m-cdn.flipboard.social/media_attachments/files/114/864/678/423/673/130/original/a744ad4855abdfe6.mp4

2025-07-14 22:17:14 UTC

"In 2022, Medium was losing $2.6M each month. We were also losing subscribers so you couldn’t even look at that spend as an investment in growth," writes the company's CEO, @nprofile…0mz7, in a new post on the site. "Internally, we were kind of ashamed of the stories we were paying and promoting as winners on the platform. Our subscribers were less kind — calling out that we were swamped with get-rich-quick trash (and worse)." Here's his honest, detailed explanation of how the company fell in a hole, and got out. (Medium has been profitable since August 2024.)
"I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something interesting happened to you, then you should write it up and share it," he says.
https://flip.it/BTv6a6
#Media #Journalism #Medium #Writing #Business #Startups #Content

2025-07-14 16:41:32 UTC

"Despite the fact that generative AI has been a destructive force against their businesses, their industry, and the truth more broadly, media executives still see AI as a business opportunity and a shiny object that they can tell investors and their staffs that they are very bullish on," writes @nprofile…p9x3 for @nprofile…ncxj. He describes why this pivot to AI won't work — and why media organizations should be focusing on human work and building real relationships with their audiences. "There is no reason for an individual journalist or an individual media company to make the fast food of the internet. It’s already being made, by spammers and the AI companies themselves. It is impossible to make it cheaper or better than them, because it is what they exist to do. The actual pivot that is needed is one to humanity. Media companies need to let their journalists be human. And they need to prove why they’re worth reading with every article they do."
https://flip.it/oEOZfB
#Media #Journalism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #MediaIndustry

2025-07-11 22:15:20 UTC

NewsGuard, the company that rates how reliable online information is with "nutrition labels," says it's retiring the words "misinformation" and "disinformation," saying they no longer help explain the threats they describe and that they are "vague, overused, and increasingly seen as partisan. When everything is 'disinformation,' nothing is, and public trust continues to disintegrate." Here's a blogpost from AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi explaining more about NewsGuard's rationale, and what terms they will be using in the future.
https://flip.it/7yTDjO
#Misinformation #Disinformation #News #Media #MediaIndustry

2025-07-10 22:00:41 UTC

All Rise News, by journalist Adam Klasfeld, is now available on Flipboard and in the fediverse via his federated Magazines.
Follow the profile, @nprofile…v9jv, for all his stories on the law, your rights and your powers to effect change in the Trump era. He also has Magazines specifically about immigration, @nprofile…5f4l, and about significant developments in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, @nprofile…h3gc.
#News #Publishers #Fediverse #Federation #Flipboard #LegalNews #KilmarAbregoGarcia #Immigration

2025-07-09 20:24:07 UTC

Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @nprofile…m665, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.
https://flip.it/J7-uzV
#Journalism #LocalJournalism #Extremism #USNews #Media #MediaIndustry

2025-06-27 22:01:06 UTC

Ghost’s @nprofile…m54a and WordPress’s @nprofile…h5lw want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @nprofile…el04 for the latest edition of Dot Social.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/
#DotSocial #Ghost #WordPress #Fediverse #FederatedMedia #ActivityPub #Federation

2025-06-24 23:38:37 UTC

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Hi @nprofile…kw8s! The federated accounts on Flipboard.com are often RSS-fed, which means you won't see much interaction unfortunately (though there are definitely some publishers that manually flip content into their Magazines and will be able to see comments, etc. Some of the value in the case of RSS-fed Magazines is that the content is broken down topically, so you can see all the tech news from a publisher but not the sports, for example. We also get some conversations taking place below the posts even if the publisher isn't engaging. And there are always the human curated @nprofile…2qzl, @nprofile…z083, @nprofile…3s66 and @nprofile…75cv accounts, where we're always up for a chat!

2025-06-24 18:09:56 UTC

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@nprofile…4wxm Busted! It should all be good now but let us know if you have any more issues!

2025-06-24 15:03:21 UTC

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@nprofile…4wxm Thanks for flagging. Couple of issues that engineering is working to resolve.

2025-06-17 21:44:00 UTC

This year, social media displaced TV and online news websites/apps as the top way Americans get news, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). According to their latest Digital News Report, the change is happening all over the world, but "faster and with more impact" in the United States. Here's more detail and other findings from the research, courtesy of Nieman Lab.
https://flip.it/2s2ai2
#News #NewsIndustry #Media #Journalism #USNews

2025-06-11 18:44:52 UTC

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@nprofile…kzgj @nprofile…zwgs @nprofile…2skd @nprofile…74c4 @nprofile…hx87 @nprofile…el04 @nprofile…t5gc #TeamFediverse forever!

2025-06-11 16:51:19 UTC

Remember when the web was fun? @nprofile…zwgs does, and she reminded users of that in her keynote speech at last week's FediForum, in which she talked about how the fediverse can't succeed without joy. Here's @nprofile…2skd's writeup of the event, which included presentations from @nprofile…74c4, @nprofile…hx87, @nprofile…el04, @nprofile…t5gc, @nprofile…kzgj and more.
https://flip.it/ft862s
#Fediverse #FediForum #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #OpenSocial

2025-06-10 20:14:15 UTC

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@nprofile…74c4 Sharing this one everywhere!