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An elbow grease to wreak a broad news ecosystem to the undefended societal entanglement , also known as thefediverse , is now in the workforce of the social magazine app Flipboard.Press.coop , a service that create mirrored report of top newsworthiness newspaper publisher ( including Reuters , AP , WSJ , NYT , BBC , CNN , and even yours truly ) , has transferred its aggregation of nearly 100 account to Flipboard , the companies herald Thursday .
Press.coop was founded a year ago by a fediverse company , Hello.coop , headed by Dick Hardt . Like many , he wanted there to be more access to news in the fediverse , particularly the X rivalMastodon , where many top publishing house had yet to pose up shop as they had on Twitter / X. To address this motivation , Press.coop mirrored the publishers ’ Twitter / X account , make for their tweet to the broader open social web .
However , when Twitter changed its API rule andupped its pricing , that access was cut off . Press.coop then moved to mirror publishers ’ RSS feeds instead .
Though these mirrored account were just bot that post the publishers ’ news to the fediverse as it pip their intelligence feeds , many gain a following . The NPR write up , for good example , get ahead 10,000 press.coop followers . Others run into minor followings .
Flipboard has been more actively moving to become a federated app in recent month . After announcing its architectural plan to integrate with the fediverse and ActivityPub — the communications protocol poweringMastodonand other federalise apps — Flipboard made it potential for its users to stick with Mastodon account from within its app , as well as follow and interact with others on the open societal internet and vice versa . Its Maker - built news show magazine publisher , meanwhile , arenow offer to users on the fediverse , expanding their reaching .
Flipboard also brought its own editorial efforts to Mastodon with its 2023launch of news “ desks”designed for get over history in areas liketech , culture , skill , and more , which were n’t automatize history . These , too , now post regularly on Mastodon from Flipboard ’s own Mastodon waiter , Flipboard.social .
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The gain of the press.coop chronicle exposit on that earlier feat . By using these federate Flipboard accounts , publishers on Flipboard ’s app will be able-bodied to see conflict in their Flipboard notifications . Plus , their existing Flipboard followers will be merged with the followers from the press.coop account , growing their reaching .
Press.coop itself is shut out down Thursday , Hardtannouncedon the service ’s website .
“ We noticed that Flipboard has been providing much of the same content to the fediverse , so we ’ve decided to partner with them and migrate all press.coop accounts to the correlate flipboard.com publisher account or to a flipboard.social story for those that are not on Flipboard already , ” the site notes . The migration should complete by the death of the month .
