Flipboard takes the next steps into the social web

Flipboard has already committed to decentralised social media a while ago, and is now taking the next steps in their commitment. The company announced yesterday that they will completely stop tweeting, and that they have launched a new podcast, Dot Social, about the 'open social web movement'.

Flipboard will stop posting on Twitter, citing the rise in hate speech and disinformation as reasons. They state that open standards are the future of social media. They will post on most other social networks (Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads). On Mastodon they have had active editorial desks accounts for a while (I enjoy their Culture Desk account personally), which will continue to be a focus.

Flipboard also announced a new podcast, Dot Social, hosted by the CEO Mike McCue, about the open social web. It is about how the internet is changing, and how open standards are contributing to a more open social web. Guests are people who are pioneering in the space, and include some people well known in the fediverse, such as Evan Prodromou. The first episode is with Mike Masnick, who wrote the seminal paper 'Protocols not Platforms', on decentralizing innovation, and is out now.