Flipboard ready to work with Bluesky and Pixelfed

If you use Flipboard, you can add BlueSky by tapping the four-square icon at the bottom of the app and going to the Accounts tab. A list of accounts should appear, giving you the option of setting up a connection to your favorite social network, including Mastodon, BlueSky, and YouTube.

Signing in is as easy as entering your Bluesky username and password. If you try to use your personal password for the service, as I did, so the app yells at you, consider using BlueSky’s more secure App Password function to create a unique login for Flipboard instead. urges. Point: Flipboard!

After you’ve set up the integration, you can choose to “Follow” individual people from among your followers on the invite-only social network, receive your own posts as they come, or have it sent to you ” Let BlueSky show you the What’s Hot” tab, which might be the best way to get butts on your Flipboard feed, if I understand how it all works (which is debatable).

If you want, you can even reply, like, and repost Bluesky content you see in Flipboard, just like you can with the Mastodon integration.

Flipboard is leaning heavily into open-source, federated social networks like Mastodon, which added support for BlueSky and PixelFed in the last month, and now. Our very own David Pierce and Nilay Patel Sitting down with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue square cast In April, where McCue decided to double down on his insistence that ActivityPub is the biggest opportunity the web has seen since its inception, and the three discussed the reasons he thinks so.

This is the second decentralized social network protocol that Flipboard has added support for, and more support is coming. The company plans to fully integrate its platform at the protocol level in the future.