Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue believes the open, decentralized social web is the future, and Flipboard's new Surf app is meant to be a browser for it. Surf organizes content into feeds, drawing from ActivityPub platforms such as Mastodon and Threads, Bluesky via the AT Protocol, and any RSS feed. The app is now in public beta, though access is limited at first while curators and creators are brought in. The reviewer found filtering useful and video and news presentation pleasant, but search messy and interaction mostly limited to Mastodon users.