Instagram Threads isn’t the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps, with its newly added support for the networking protocol ActivityPub.

Fourteen years ago, when the iPad was new and bursting with unfulfilled promise, an app called Flipboard debuted. Billing itself as a “social magazine,” it let you sign in with your Twitter and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report on media as well as its intersection with news and culture. Flipboard debuted back in 2010 — an eon ago in the span of ...