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Mike McCueHello Fediverse. Goodbye walled gardens.
Jeff Jarvis@mmccue
Bravo, Mike. This is wonderful.
Bravo, Mike. This is wonderful.
@jeffjarvis Thanks Jeff. Means a lot coming from you.
Tyrone Slothrop@mmccue Welcome, and props for the well-written intro paragraph
“Magazine app Flipboard is joining the Fediverse — the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the newly popular Twitter alternative Mastodon.”
João Tiago Rebelo@jt_rebelo Thanks for the kind words! Excited to become a part of this movement.
Dawn Tåke 🏳️⚧️@mmccue
I'm still of two minds about corps making their own instances. Though as long as they moderate, play nice with everyone else, and don't try and squeeze out the independent servers, it seems mostly a positive.
I'm still of two minds about corps making their own instances. Though as long as they moderate, play nice with everyone else, and don't try and squeeze out the independent servers, it seems mostly a positive.
@Tourma I agree with you, Dawn. I think of it as a privilege to be federated, not a right and so instances like ours need to earn that privilege every day.
AmiW Streetart ❄️
Brian Dear@mmccue Oh give it time. Eventually the VCs and angels will find a way to ruin it and wall up the Fediverse like everything else.
@brianstorms I will work hard to prevent that from happening.
Jeff Grigg@mmccue
Welcome!
Welcome!
@JeffGrigg Thanks Jeff!
newsorpigalWelcome!
@newsorpigal Thank you!
Pyperkub
Josh@pyperkub @mmccue Think the issue is the link redirects to the Yahoo cookies consent page, and the link preview shown here is pointing there instead of to the techcrunch URL. If you click the link itself it opens, but clicking the preview tries to load the consent page with an invalid session ID (since its whatever ID the Mastodon server got back when it tried to preview the site).
Not sure if that's a Mastodon issue or one with the preview data served from Techcrunch!
Noah Mittman 
@mmccue Wow! This is fantastic news
@mmccue I hope letting us verify our Flipboard profiles in our Mastodon accounts is in the works! 😏 (nowhere to add a rel=me link on our FB profiles right now)
Juan Villela@mmccue Wow, it really is happening. In a way, I'm glad it happened now when the tech is mature and it's not the early days.
@fourjuaneight It's just so cool to see and be a part of this revolution. What's that old saying? There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Jason Sadler@mmccue looks cool! I went to check it out but it asked me to log in to my instance using a built-in webview (or maybe a native login UI). The only sure way for users to be sure an app can’t snoop their passwords is to use Safari View Controller, like you do for your YouTube login. Would you consider making this security fix, please?
@json yes. great point!
k cavaliere@mmccue Welcome!
@thinking_images Thank you!