Molly White is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical. In fact, this researcher, writer and software engineer cares so deeply about free and open access to high-quality information that she’s been a Wikipedia editor since she was a teenager.  Now Molly is the force behind the Citation...

Flipboard curators have seen over 100,000 boosts, likes, replies and follows from people across the fediverse since in-app notifications went live on April 11. Over the past few weeks people on federated services like Mastodon have been able to interact with posts by any of the 450 previously federated Flipboard profiles and their Magazines....

Louisa Moje, the creator behind Food Plus Words and La Passion Voûtée, is Flipboard’s Food Writer in Residence for spring 2024. Her passion for cooking is influenced by her Nigerian roots and travels around the world, and you can see this in the flavorful dishes she serves up. Her fashion blog started as a creative outlet when she was in pharmacy...

The beauty of an open system is that anyone can build on top of it and try to make it a better place. In the fediverse, software engineer Ryan Barrett is one such developer. Ryan’s been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal websites and blogs to centralized social...

On March 21, Meta’s Threads entered the fediverse. This means that people on other ActivityPub-powered platforms, like Mastodon, can follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from the fediverse. (Eventually, you’ll be able to follow other fediverse accounts from Threads, too.) It’s still early days, but Threads’...

As the fediverse continues to expand and evolve, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue satisfies our curiosity about its impact on the future of social media through interviews with fediverse builders, designers and thinkers on his podcast, Dot Social. The recent episode with Johannes Ernst, co-founder of FediForum, dove into the power of decentralized innovation...