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Mike McCue
@mike@flipboard.social
mastodon 4.7.3Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard
Host of Dot Social Podcast
https://surf.social/profile/mikemccue
@mike@flipboard.com
Interests: #Climbing #Backpacking #Photography #Sailing #ActivityPub #Startups #Design #Leica #Woodworking
6397 Followers
980 Following
50 Posts
Joined February 28, 2023
Hello fediverse!
Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web:
https://verge.surf.social
https://decoder.surf.social
https://versionhistory.surf.social
https://vergecast.surf.social
https://wired.surf.social
https://404media.surf.social
https://poweruser.surf.social
https://ShutdownFullcast.surf.social
https://FilmFeed.surf.social
https://AllNet.surf.social
https://DefectorSports.surf.social
https://Oregonian.surf.social
https://TheTea.surf.social
https://RollingStonePolitics.surf.social
https://TheMMQB.surf.social
Today we're also opening https://surf.social on the web to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.
I've been looking forward to today for 2.5 years and am so grateful to be a part of building the social web. Thank you to all who have helped and inspired us.
You can learn more at: https://about.surf.social/surf-launches-surf-social-websites/
Press release: https://about.flipboard.com/press/surf-launches-social-websites-a-new-model-for-social-media/
Today I’m live on Product Hunt answering questions and evangelizing Activitypub and the social web among the founders and product builders there.
You can join in here:
RE: @imdavidpierce@www.threads.com
The post heard round the world!
Thanks to @imdavidpierce@threads.net and @reckless1280@threads.net for their undying support of the open social web. Nilay has been relentlessly executing on a vision that is going to light the way forward for digital media.
Huge shoutout to @reckless@mastodon.social and @davidpierce@mastodon.social who have been relentlessly evangelizing the social web since Elon took over twitter. Now they’re not just evangelizing, they’re shipping.
Verge.surf.social is sooo good. Like looking at The Verge through the other end of the telescope.
Happy new year Fediverse!
Using Surf tonight? If so, enjoy the new dark mode!
If you love great photography you should check out the Leica Challenge Surf feed on a big screen:
Moonscrolling!
RE: @mgs@me.dm
This is an excellent and poignant encapsulation of Om. He was the zen of tech and I will miss him greatly.
The look tab when surfing Artemis II is astonishing right now.
I don't write very often and it's been ten years since I wrote this but it may be even more relevant now for founders and leaders than ever: @mmccue@medium.com
This open social website by @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social is an example of the future of the web: https://poweruser.surf.social
Here Taylor is continually curating the people, podcasts and sources she trusts into a single destination that anyone can engage with regardless of whether they're on Mastodon or Bluesky. More importantly, people who aren't yet on the social web can easily join her community--not because they want to join the social web but because they want to join Taylor's community.
Taylor also gets to decide how she wants her feed to look, how she wants to moderate it and how she should monetize it. And critically, Taylor owns the connections with her followers forever.
None of this is possible in the walled gardens. But all of it is possible on the open social web.
Peru near Machu Picchu
#filmfeed
This is such an awesome feed by @stephenrobles@mastodon.social. It's a great example of how a creator on Mastodon can pull together their social posts, podcast, newsletter and YouTube channel in a single place for everyone to discover. Can't do anything like this in the walled gardens!
Everything Beardfm
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01kncvbv58t90604zpw2m8v6ym
This is a talk I gave at last weekend's Atmosphere conference about the power of the open social web and how feeds are the new web sites: https://ionosphere.tv/talks/81Xovjr
Well, here we go.
I'm thankful for this place as we enter an insane new era. Hope we all come out together and stronger on the other side.
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@RyanHyde@techhub.social @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange yeah their tech team has been awesome to work with. We're essentially helping them federate their full stack. Eventually you'll even see replies from the fediverse and atmosphere as comments on theverge.com. And you'll see ActivityPub and AT Proto posts directly in feeds on The Verge's website that you'll be able to like/repost right from there.
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social They are saying it out loud: One of ours. All of yours.
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@welshpixie@mastodon.art @greg@flipboard.social To be clear, users using Mastodon on the mastodon.art instance will not see posts from David's Threads account because Threads is blocked.
We're working to include David's native Mastodon account as a part of the integration we're doing with The Verge so that users can reply to that account instead.
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@osma@mas.to @RyanHyde@techhub.social @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange yes a reaction or reply shows up on Threads. A reply or like on Bluesky appears in the fediverse if bridged. You'll see all engagement in multi-protocol experiences like Surf, Flipboard and the Verge web site itself. We're still early days but the goal is to achieve a platform for shared conversation.
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@RyanHyde@techhub.social @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange yes we're collaborating with Nilay and The Verge team to help them fully federate with the social web (ActivityPub and AT Proto).
This is just the very first step and is similar to when I first federated my account from the Flipboard app or Adam Mosseri first federated his account from Threads. Much more to come.
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Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social
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@carnage4life@mas.to this is going to get a lot worse when Apple ships a version of Siri as capable as ChatGPT, far more privacy centric, automatically integrated into all the apps people use on their iPhone, and just a button away to access.
There are so many great apps and services in the fediverse. To gain a better understanding of these I spoke with @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org for the latest episode of DotSocial. As many of you already know, Chris is a long time fediverse enthusiast with a lot of insight into the past, present and future of the social web.
We had a really fun discussion. Check it out on our PeerTube instance or wherever you get your podcasts.
Easily one of my favorite feeds.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jcrw8352hedbcc9p6tteeekt
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@paul @stefan @tchambers @Flipboard I'm so happy to hear that Paul. And thank you for sharing your experience. It's one of the best things I've heard from someone using flipboard since we started the company 16 years ago. Super motivating to the team and i.
Alaska on the beach among the grizzlies. This one started running right at us but luckily veered at the last minute. No zoom. 😨
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@tchambers@indieweb.social This is the biggest usability complaint from the legendary @wsmossberg@mastodon.social
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@brooks@social.brookslawson.com for purposes of caching and performance we currently don’t show posts older than 2 months from BlueSky. Last post here was from 4 months ago. We’ll broaden the coverage window soon.
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@David@setouchi.social @greg@flipboard.social @surf@flipboard.social FWIW every mastodon client has this issue, you just rarely notice it. ActivityPub posts require federation to happen via follows which means that sometimes you'll miss replies from people that are not yet federated with your instance.
All that said, we will be able to get Surf working at the same level as all the other clients out there. Stay tuned.
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@sturmsucht@mastodon.social @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social Thanks Chris!!!!
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @MatWright@mastodon.social yes send us a screenshot. someone else recently mentioned that we might have a time stamp issue. @greg@flipboard.social has been investigating.
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@dansup@mastodon.social Love this!!! Are you also planning to do this for Pixelfed?
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@David@setouchi.social @surf@flipboard.social @greg@flipboard.social Fair question. Our focus so far has been to get the custom feeds experience to be great across platforms. We also wanted to enable new users to the social web to be able to easily sign up and create an account that could seamlessly work across protocols. As a result, the following feed experience has been a lower priority because we know there are plenty of other apps out there that do a great job at this for Mastodon users.
All that said we also know that a great following feed + great custom feeds is the ultimate so that's why we're focusing on it now.
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We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund@mastodon.social 🎉
This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
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@Tylerstrauss@mastodon.social @surf@flipboard.social by default It will turn on based on the system, light and dark mode settings. You can also go into Surf app settings to manually turn it on or off.
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@lafonjm@pouet.chapril.org It's avail to everyone on the web and android. iOS is still in testflight. if you sign up for the iOS beta at waitlist.surf.social we'll work to get you in. There's a max of 10K users on testflight so we've had to be careful about how many folks we let in.
"What struck me wasn't just Earth. It was all the blackness around it... Earth was just this lifeboat. Hanging. Undisturbingly. In the universe. Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." - Christina Koch, Artemis Crew Member
https://surf.social/feed/surf%252Fcustom%252F01kn9zvtkw6yrzgqfqr5rr3g3m/post/bluesky%252Fpost%252Fat%253A%252F%252Fdid%253Aplc%253Aqj6jo4rqxsg5zd6ul43u4vsv%252Fapp.bsky.feed.post%252F3mjbdtk3tg223?sharedBy=surf%252Fprofile%252F01j0csmver4fhby36w9x0zye0x&initialTab=Videos
Killer interview by @reckless1280 with CEO of Superhuman on today's Decoder.
[Insert emotional or stakes based words here that underscore why "attribution" of bad advice hallucinated from a good creator is a terrible idea]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5eC5wdQPZs
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@ben@werd.social This free online book: Make Something Wonderful
https://book.stevejobsarchive.com
I look at it often.
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@darkpixel@infosec.exchange @dot_social @flipboard hmmm. not sure. CCing @greg@flipboard.social who might know.
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @tchambers@indieweb.social @Flipboard@flipboard.social that's a pretty cool idea. CCing @greg@flipboard.social who wrote this.