Starting today, Flipboard will let users search for and follow accounts from across the Fediverse from the comfort of their own dashboards. This is the next step in introducing Flipboard’s wider userbase to federation, and this iteration acts like a “soft follow” – users will be able to follow accounts from within Flipboard, but the functionality will be closer to following an RSS feed: they will be able to read and share posts, but won’t yet send follow requests or replies.
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is new feature isn’t just limited to Mastodon or PixelFed, but includes Threads profiles that opted in to Fediverse