Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now,
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    Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social media.

    “While we’ve enjoyed connecting with many of our community members there, we believe it’s vital to align our social presence with platforms that share our values for advancing trusted journalism, expert voices, and quality information,” Flipboard announced in a statement.

    Of course, Flipboard itself was harmed by Musk’s changes, as Twitter cut off developers from its API and upped the pricing for others, making it untenable for many to continue to work with the company.

    Dot Social’s guest lineup includes Techdirt founder and editor Mike Masnick; Mitchell Baker, CEO at Mozilla and chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation; Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine, whose company also launched its own Mastodon instance; Evan Prodromou, a key contributor to the ActivityPub protocol used in decentralized social networks; Ian Forrester, who is among those leading the BBC R&D’s experimental move into the fediverse with a Mastodon server at social.bbc; Wired co-founder and author John Battelle; and Tim Chambers, co-founder of Dewey Digital and creator of the X/Twitter Migration report.

    Before founding Flipboard, serial entrepreneur McCue co-founded voice-recognition software TellMe Networks, which sold to Microsoft in 2007.

    Mozilla is also betting on a decentralized social networking future, and financially backed the Mastodon client Mammoth.

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