▲ 514 ▼ Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon::The company cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter, as well a desire to work with a federated network of social platforms.
[–] Flanhare@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) Never heard of Flipboard 🤔 permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Ow it's actually quite big. Flipboard has over 145 million monthly active users permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I suspect many of them have never heard of it, either. It was default software on some bloatware device I had, either a Samsung phone or tablet or a Lenovo laptop, maybe. I expect plenty of people just accepted that it was there in front of their face and must just be "the news on the Internet". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] irreticent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Can confirm it as bloatware on Samsung Galaxy phones (older ones; I think they stopped adding it recently) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Ow it's actually quite big. Flipboard has over 145 million monthly active users permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I suspect many of them have never heard of it, either. It was default software on some bloatware device I had, either a Samsung phone or tablet or a Lenovo laptop, maybe. I expect plenty of people just accepted that it was there in front of their face and must just be "the news on the Internet". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] irreticent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Can confirm it as bloatware on Samsung Galaxy phones (older ones; I think they stopped adding it recently) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I suspect many of them have never heard of it, either. It was default software on some bloatware device I had, either a Samsung phone or tablet or a Lenovo laptop, maybe. I expect plenty of people just accepted that it was there in front of their face and must just be "the news on the Internet". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] irreticent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Can confirm it as bloatware on Samsung Galaxy phones (older ones; I think they stopped adding it recently) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Can confirm it as bloatware on Samsung Galaxy phones (older ones; I think they stopped adding it recently) permalink fedilink source parent