With today's announcement you can see the stories that some terrific publishers are curating on Flipboard:

Afar
@AfarMedia

The Root
@TheRoot

Pitchfork
@pitchfork

The Collector
@thecollector

LGBTQ Nation
@LGBTQNation

Mental Foss
@mental_floss

Semafor
@Semafor

JoySauce
@Joysauce

The Verge
@theverge

Refinery 29
@Refinery29

Smithsonian Magazine
@Smithsonianmag

SPIN Magazine
@SPINMag

IndieWire
@IndieWire

The Conversation US
@theconversationus@flipboard.com

Digiday
@Digiday

@mike Brilliant! I love being able to follow these sites via Mastodon.

@wjmaggos Try this one: @ConversationUS

@wjmaggos Works here

@jan

he fixed it

@mike @AfarMedia @TheRoot @pitchfork @thecollector @LGBTQNation @mental_floss @Semafor @Joysauce @theverge @Refinery29 @Smithsonianmag @SPINMag @IndieWire @Digiday @ConversationUS

Have high hopes for this integration!

@mike @AfarMedia @TheRoot @pitchfork @thecollector @LGBTQNation @mental_floss @Semafor @Joysauce @theverge @Refinery29 @Smithsonianmag @SPINMag @IndieWire @Digiday @ConversationUS

Outstanding! Thank you!

What am I not understanding here? When I follow a link to one of these accounts they have a link to another #flipboard account with the same handle and a bigger follower account. Which is the one to follow and why are there two?

@mike @AfarMedia @TheRoot @pitchfork @thecollector @LGBTQNation @mental_floss @Semafor @Joysauce @theverge @Refinery29 @Smithsonianmag @SPINMag @IndieWire @Digiday @ConversationUS

@cmonster Interesting. That link is supposed to take you to The Root's account on Flipboard. It works for me on the Web.

FYI @greg in case there's an issue.

@ericjmorey

https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209

@mike @greg ah. If this is an app thing, I'm using megladon 2.1.6.fork110

@Smithsonianmag @ConversationUS @Digiday @Refinery29 @mental_floss @mike @IndieWire @AfarMedia @Joysauce @thecollector @Semafor @TheRoot @pitchfork @theverge @LGBTQNation @SPINMag
Fantastic development!

@mike @AfarMedia @TheRoot @pitchfork @thecollector @LGBTQNation @mental_floss @Semafor @Joysauce @theverge @Refinery29 @Smithsonianmag @SPINMag @IndieWire @Digiday @ConversationUS

I think it's really funny that they are specifically doing the type of thing have been advising not to do on their podcast for large businesses....which is using someone else instance....

@rotfarm I think that publishers and creators will have multiple accounts in the #Fediverse for different purposes and use cases. For example I now have three accounts in the Fediverse: My Flipboard account where I curate interesting content into magazines that people can follow. My Mastodon account where I mostly post and converse about the Fediverse. My PixelFed account where I post photos.

@manton thank you!

@mike Oh, no I meant that they wouldn't create their own mastodon instances. Flipboard has multiple accounts for types of news, and I was thinking those others would do that, as opposed to repeating the same idea of using another's instance as a platform, but now thinking about it, it maybe makes sense as flipboard itself is an app business platform for distributing news.

@cmonster Follow flipboard.com/@TheRoot which should be @theroot (see how you can take the username and domain name to get the @ handle?) Those are the same account– looks like Flipboard his having CDN issues there and their load balancers aren’t in sync.

@mike this is incredible! Thank you for sharing!

@ovr This is common if Micro.blog doesn’t have any posts yet for the user. I want to improve this. But if you follow, you’ll get anything new.

@mike@flipboard.social @AfarMedia@flipboard.com @TheRoot@flipboard.com @pitchfork@flipboard.com @thecollector@flipboard.com @LGBTQNation@flipboard.com @mental_floss@flipboard.com @Semafor@flipboard.com @Joysauce@flipboard.com @theverge@flipboard.com @Refinery29@flipboard.com @Smithsonianmag@flipboard.com @SPINMag@flipboard.com @IndieWire@flipboard.com @ConversationUS@flipboard.com @Digiday@flipboard.com

hello and welcome to the Fediverse