Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse

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Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse | TechCrunch
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How do I find the accounts to follow? Is there a list somewhere?

I just typed "flipboard" into search in Tusky:

Thanks! This got me some other stuff mixed in, but searching "flipboard.com" worked well.

Yes, there's also flipboard.social in those results which is worth noting through as people seem to be using that for link aggregator accounts too (especially as only a select few magazines have been brought over so far)

Try flipboard.social as well. I think they set that up for their ActivityPub offerings?

I can't find a complete list, but McCue lists some examples here. These newly-federated magazines are apparently curated by the original 25 publishers in their initial test of federation. You can find the list of those publishers here. You should be able to find the magazines by searching for the publishers on Mastodon. Euronews' Russia-Ukraine crisis magazine, for example, is:
@russia-ukraine-crisis-euronews@flipboard.com

I was able to follow all the publishers I tried. I also followed a few of the new magazines. Seems to work!

So it looks like it's just Fedi accounts that link back to ad and signup-ridden webpages. Not sure what the "magazine" bit is about.

I spent hours trying to delete my fucking Outside account that I never even created in the first place. I'm never going anywhere near that shit again.