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Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social
This might be the first great fediverse app.
Mike McCue, the CEO of Flipboard and an internet entrepreneur since the Netscape days, is a true believer in the fediverse. It presents videos like an endlessly scrolling TikTok feed, which is actually a pretty fun way to flip through a YouTube channel. He even uses old-web metaphors to explain these early products: the current era we’re in is like AOL back in the day, “a walled garden that contained all the innovation in the walled garden”; Surf is like old-school Yahoo, “a collection of feeds that other people have made.” He wants to enable paid feeds, so publishers, creators, and curators can make money on the platform.
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