Flipboard, a popular news reading app, has announced its decision to integrate Mastodon, a decentralized social networking protocol that has gained popularity in the last year, into its main app. The move is aimed at encouraging broader adoption of the Fediverse, a network of interconnected decentralized social media platforms, among Flipboard’s user base.
According to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, the integration of Mastodon and the development of Flipboard’s own Mastodon instance are the first steps in a broader plan to embrace decentralized social networking protocols. The plan is a response to the increasing hostility towards outside developers by services like Twitter and Facebook, which rely on proprietary social graphs.
