Mike McCue / is on Nostr

Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@mike

Interests: #Climbing #Backpacking #Photography #Sailing #ActivityPub #Startups #Design

Flipboard: https://flipboard.com/@mike
Mastofind: Mike McCue (npub17fe…w0a6)#profile">https://verified.thecanadian.social/people/Mike McCue (npub17fe…w0a6)#profile
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mmccue
Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/552287901248434070

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2024-08-27 18:41:13

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I've heard this concept of "podcasting 2.0" recently. What does it mean?

2024-08-27 18:11:40

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These are fantastic points. Video storage, uploading and streaming is quite expensive to do and needs some kind of business model to support it at scale. This is one reason why I think a federated Patreon would be a huge unlock for expansion and health of the fediverse and video creators.

2024-08-27 15:35:51

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super helpful! Thanks for mentioning these. We'll make sure these render well in Flipboard and then feature them to our users. Not nearly enough people know about #PeerTube.

2024-08-27 05:09:17

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thanks for the recommendations! I love gamers tavern. Who are some of your favorite peertubers?

2024-08-25 20:51:09

Hello fediverse!
I need your help to feature all of the amazing services that are part of the #ActivityPub realm.
What are some of your favorite ActivityPub handles to follow on #Funkwhale, #Peertube, #Pixelfed, #Bookwyrm, #Wordpress, #Truefans, #Castopod, #Akkoma, #Friendica, #Lemmy and others?
Your replies will be categorized by @npub1e9l…ey55, @npub1cw2…drk8, @npub19n4…5vr0 and [@marci](https://flipboard.com/@marci ) so that we can feature these accounts to our Flipboard users and work to ensure they render properly on Flipboard.
I'm excited to help evangelize the many great projects here and advocate for their adoption and funding.

2024-08-18 01:00:48

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and I understand the assignment. Happy birthday!

2024-08-05 23:29:07

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what are your thoughts on why moderating misinformation might not be a good idea?

2024-05-05 05:11:38

Well, I got my first white supremacist reply from the fediverse after posting an article about Elon from Flipboard.
I reported and blocked the account. I also looked at the instance admin's account and it's clear he's also a white supremacist. So that instance will be blocked on flipboard.com and flipboard.social as well as shared with other instance admins as a problematic instance for them to take action if they also deem appropriate. Took all of 2 minutes to help make the fediverse a bit better for everyone.
And the best thing is that anyone in the fediverse can do this too. Decentralized moderation FTW.

2024-04-22 23:41:51

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You're right about the EU. But there's a maze of other privacy regulations to navigate. For example in California there's CCPA. Plus there's still a lot of legal ground to map out with posts being propagated and copied across a decentralized set of servers around the world. It's the kind of thing that drives legal departments crazy. It takes a certain amount of courage/commitment to ship a product in this environment given the potential for liability. I need to learn more about Authorized Fetch to say how much of a solution this is or isn't.
Side thread: as far as I can tell regulations like GDPR and CCPA have had limited value to consumers while being incredibly costly to implement for smaller publishers and making the whole web experience painful with yet more popups. These well intentioned regulations are making the big guys who can afford to do all this stuff stronger while making the small guys weaker and at greater risk. Ugh.

2024-04-22 23:22:24

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I can see your concern re: the 30 day prompt. I was surprised to get this myself yesterday. Seems like a conservative approach to dealing with things like GDPR, etc.
From my POV I think the Threads team remains committed to federating and fully adopting ActivityPub. I'm looking forward to their two way federation launch which will make things a lot more functional and useful.

2024-03-16 05:52:43

This is what happens when you tap on your Threads user name right now. Interesting times ahead.
https://m-cdn.flipboard.social/media_attachments/files/112/103/805/685/936/682/original/580b92c3b98b24c8.png