Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you can follow people from places like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed right inside Flipboard.
Is Tumblr still planning on joining? That would be huge
They said they would two years ago, and indicated they still intend to last December. I don’t think it’s much of a priority (they could’ve implemented basic functionality in a couple of months if it were), but I do believe they’re working on it.