I thought this app was dead. I used to use it years ago when it first came out-it was a great way to consume your news. Then the advertisers and paywalls came in and ruined it.
Flipboard Begins to Federate
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#12Flipboard used to be great, but as expected, it got diluted with recycled FB and reddit content, ads and "the top 5 things you shouldn't do, number 3 shocked me" type of posts.
Exactly what I was just thinking, had no idea it was still alive. Twitter took its place for me but now even that has been ruined.
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#13Flipboard used to be great, but as expected, it got diluted with recycled FB and reddit content, ads and "the top 5 things you shouldn't do, number 3 shocked me" type of posts.
uh, isn't it an rss client? Can't you just add what you want to it?
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#14Flipboard used to be great, but as expected, it got diluted with recycled FB and reddit content, ads and "the top 5 things you shouldn't do, number 3 shocked me" type of posts.
Happens everywhere, even on my Google News Feed. I can tell Google I don't want to see specific articles, authors, topics, etc., but there's no way for me to tell Google that I don't want to see Clickbait article titles...
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#15Unrelated. How hard is it to create another “internet” which is completely detached from the current internet?
The answer ranges from "basically impossible" to "trivial" depending on what layer of the OSI model you think the "current internet" exists on.
Another answer might be - you do this every time your local network disconnects from the big internet. How do you like your little internet ?
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#16Completely forgot it even existed. I remember I loved the app initially on iPad. Looked so nice. Then it started getting flooded with ads and turned to peepoo. The layout was awesome though. It was kinda like a RSS reader you could follow a bunch of topics, twitter feeds, blogs...
Same here. It was one of those things I loaded on the 1st gen iPad and considered a possible killer app for a new and innovative way to get news content.
Glad to see it's still around and doing something like this. Will be checking it out again.
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#17Fun monetization strategy for federated apps - federate with your own instance dedicated to ads.
But more seriously what is the monetization strategy for federated apps? Up front pay or subscription for using the app?
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#18Fun monetization strategy for federated apps - federate with your own instance dedicated to ads. But more seriously what is the monetization strategy for federated apps? Up front pay or subscription for using the app?
I suppose you could have an 'Apollo' style app providing a nice UI for power users with a subscription cost. I could see it being a solid revenue stream for small teams/indie makers. Difficult to get to the kind of scale needed for advertising to be particularly profitable unless we get some kind of federated facebook ads platform...
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#19Strange for me to see the negative comments on Flipboard (though I'm not of course criticizing anyone's personal opinion) since I've been a user pretty much from the beginning and still use it daily. Ads are definitely visible but not obnoxious or in the way of how I read it. I agree with Brent's take on Fediverse in read apps (https://inessential.com/2023/12/17/on_mastodon_support_in_ne...) and Flipboard seems to match with this thinking.
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#20Flipboard used to be great, but as expected, it got diluted with recycled FB and reddit content, ads and "the top 5 things you shouldn't do, number 3 shocked me" type of posts.
uh, isn't it an rss client? Can't you just add what you want to it?
Pretty sure it had always predefined sources