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Flipboard lauches Surf, a new app for browing the open social web


Social magazine app maker Flipboard is reinventing itself for the new era of the open social web. While the company's original app allowed users to

According to Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, Surf has been in development for almost two years to solve many of the problems users face when they want to leave larger, centralized social media services in favor of those built with open protocols. On the app’s home page, Flipboard’s editorial team offers a variety of pre-made feeds to follow, organized into sections like Featured, Trending, Expert Voices, Communities, and others. A “Discuss” tab offers a Twitter-like timeline experience where posts from across social networks and sites are featured, which you can also like, reply to, repost, and bookmark, when logged in with your Mastodon credentials.

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