Flipboard is the most recent firm to finish its presence on X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter. In a Medium post printed Tuesday, the corporate stated it could not be “actively monitoring or posting updates on X,” save for the occasional retweet. As a substitute, Flipboard will probably be refocusing its efforts on Mastodon and different open social platforms.
The explanations for Flipboard’s departure from X look like two-fold: X’s extra lax moderation insurance policies underneath Elon Musk’s management, which has led to a sharp spike in hate speech and misinformation; and Flipboard’s purpose of working with federated social media providers. Over the previous a number of months, Flipboard has joined a growing list of corporations, together with Mozilla, Tumblr, and Medium, which can be utilizing the ActivityPub protocol to combine with federated platforms.
“As extensively reported, Twitter/X’s rollback of moderation insurance policies has led to an increase in dangerous rhetoric and hate speech and its platform selections have superior false narratives and disinformation. These adjustments run opposite to our values and so we’ve determined to put money into different, more healthy environments,” Flipboard wrote in a message posted to Medium.
Flipboard and X’s ties started to fray in April, when X shut off its free API, breaking the sharing perform that Flipboard used to publish content material. As a substitute, X has urged corporations to affix its paid API tier — for which an Enterprise plan was reported by Platformer to value as a lot as $42,000 a month.
The corporate additionally launched its personal podcast concerning the open social internet, Dot Social, which will probably be hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. The primary episode, printed right this moment, options Techdirt founder Mike Masnick.