After sensing a change in the direction that social media was headed, Flipboard last year dropped support for Twitter/X in its app, which today allows users to curate content from around the web in “magazines” that are shared with other readers.

Late last year, Flipboard said it was also adding support for ActivityPub, the networking protocol that powers the fediverse, within its own app.

Initially, this would allow select accounts to be discoverable and followed by millions of users of decentralized social apps, including Mastodon.

Flipboard’s magazines, however, tend to be thematic in nature, allowing users to browse news, articles, and social posts referencing a particular topic, like healthy eating, climate tech, national security, and more.

Participating publishers include Smithsonian, Bloomberg Green, Frommer’s, The Intercept, Real Simple, Refinery29, Mashable, Medium and others.

With the initial test group now integrated with ActivityPub, Flipboard says that the plan is to get started generating the remaining active and public curators and their magazines.

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