Mike McCue

This is not ok.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/

BTW there's a fun story in here about when I demoed Flipboard to Steve Jobs:

Brad Porter, founder and CEO of Cobot, recently interviewed me about starting companies, crafting products, building teams and the moment we're all in now.

I recruited Brad to Netscape back in the 90s and then he helped build Tellme, then AWS at Amazon and now Cobot. This was a particularly fun conversation because of all we've learned and done together. Check it out.

RE: https://me.dm/@mgs/116832936294932900

This is an excellent and poignant encapsulation of Om. He was the zen of tech and I will miss him greatly.

Hello fediverse!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@imdavidpierce/post/DYnV8NJFBXa

The post heard round the world!

Thanks to @imdavidpierce and @reckless1280 for their undying support of the open social web. Nilay has been relentlessly executing on a vision that is going to light the way forward for digital media.

If you love great photography you should check out the Leica Challenge Surf feed on a big screen:

https://leica.surf.social

Using Surf tonight? If so, enjoy the new dark mode!

This is such an awesome feed by

. It's a great example of how a creator on Mastodon can pull together their social posts, podcast, newsletter and YouTube channel in a single place for everyone to discover. Can't do anything like this in the walled gardens!

Everything Beardfm

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01kncvbv58t90604zpw2m8v6ym

#SurfFeeds

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116402716327956884

👏 👏 👏

"What struck me wasn't just Earth. It was all the blackness around it... Earth was just this lifeboat. Hanging. Undisturbingly. In the universe. Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." - Christina Koch, Artemis Crew Member

https://surf.social/feed/surf%252Fcustom%252F01kn9zvtkw6yrzgqfqr5rr3g3m/post/bluesky%252Fpost%252Fat%253A%252F%252Fdid%253Aplc%253Aqj6jo4rqxsg5zd6ul43u4vsv%252Fapp.bsky.feed.post%252F3mjbdtk3tg223?sharedBy=surf%252Fprofile%252F01j0csmver4fhby36w9x0zye0x&initialTab=Videos

And FujiScrolling!

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01j1fjm0t9h97ndj4x90jyzp8g/post/bluesky%2Fpost%2Fat%3A%2F%2Fdid%3Aplc%3Ackwl57rv34m7gcr7kb7ujxde%2Fapp.bsky.feed.post%2F3mj3xtdxj7wl2?sharedBy=surf%2Fprofile%2F01j0csmver4fhby36w9x0zye0x&initialTab=Images

Moonscrolling!

Easily one of my favorite feeds.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jcrw8352hedbcc9p6tteeekt

Huge shoutout to

and

who have been relentlessly evangelizing the social web since Elon took over twitter. Now they’re not just evangelizing, they’re shipping.

Verge.surf.social is sooo good. Like looking at The Verge through the other end of the telescope.

Today I’m live on Product Hunt answering questions and evangelizing Activitypub and the social web among the founders and product builders there.

You can join in here:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/flipboard-surf?comment=5267122&utm_campaign=comment_created&utm_content=31839722&utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&bc=1

The look tab when surfing Artemis II is astonishing right now.

This is a talk I gave at last weekend's Atmosphere conference about the power of the open social web and how feeds are the new web sites: https://ionosphere.tv/talks/81Xovjr

This open social website by

is an example of the future of the web: https://poweruser.surf.social

Here Taylor is continually curating the people, podcasts and sources she trusts into a single destination that anyone can engage with regardless of whether they're on Mastodon or Bluesky. More importantly, people who aren't yet on the social web can easily join her community--not because they want to join the social web but because they want to join Taylor's community.

Taylor also gets to decide how she wants her feed to look, how she wants to moderate it and how she should monetize it. And critically, Taylor owns the connections with her followers forever.

None of this is possible in the walled gardens. But all of it is possible on the open social web.

Hello fediverse!

Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web:

verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social poweruser.surf.social ShutdownFullcast.surf.social FilmFeed.surf.social AllNet.surf.social DefectorSports.surf.social Oregonian.surf.social TheTea.surf.social RollingStonePolitics.surf.social TheMMQB.surf.social

Today we're also opening surf.social on the web to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.

I've been looking forward to today for 2.5 years and am so grateful to be a part of building the social web. Thank you to all who have helped and inspired us.

You can learn more at: https://about.surf.social/surf-launches-surf-social-websites/

Press release: https://about.flipboard.com/press/surf-launches-social-websites-a-new-model-for-social-media/

I don't write very often and it's been ten years since I wrote this but it may be even more relevant now for founders and leaders than ever: https://medium.com/@mmccue/the-most-powerful-lesson-i-ve-ever-learned-in-business-4d89e95ab250

Killer interview by @reckless1280 with CEO of Superhuman on today's Decoder.

[Insert emotional or stakes based words here that underscore why "attribution" of bad advice hallucinated from a good creator is a terrible idea]

Alaska on the beach among the grizzlies. This one started running right at us but luckily veered at the last minute. No zoom. 😨

Peru near Machu Picchu

#filmfeed

Testing

These are actual screen shots I just took after reading the Guardian article and checking substack to see if these hate speech substacks were still live:

• swastika + substack branding

• substack recommending nazi content in "related notes" https://m-cdn.flipboard.social/media_attachments/files/116/031/917/460/434/090/original/46365bc73b4de145.png https://m-cdn.flipboard.social/media_attachments/files/116/031/919/145/899/259/original/57146d32fe79efb7.png

Love seeing this.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/top-substack-writers-depart-for-patreon/

Geocities mode for

's vibe coded web site is so good.

I created a new mastodon account today as part of theforkiverse.com (yes I'm Fediversemaxxing as Casey says) and I have to say that new user onboarding has gotten SO much better. Particularly love the welcome email. Well done

and team!!

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@Casey/115865873920636233

Love this!!!

Today's Search Engine and Hard Fork podcasts were super fun to listen to!!

Excited that

and

are building their own Mastodon instance called the Forkiverse.

And I absolutely loved the vibe coding experiments Casey and Kevin did to make their own personal web sites (cnewton.org and kevinroose.com)

Feels like we are taking some of the best aspects of the internet we loved and lost and bringing them together with new tech in ways that are incredibly promising for the internet going forward. Bravo.

Must listen.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

and

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/podcasts/hardfork-grok-crisis-claude-code.html

Happy new year Fediverse!

Live blogging Rudolph on the island of misfit toys.

Claymation is so much cooler than GenAI.

People of the fediverse: Who is this character?

I've never been more excited about the future of the social web than I am today.

If you're developing on ActivityPub or AT Proto I want to reassure you that your work will make a difference. Big wheels are turning.

Hello fediverse!

I'm feeling a bit guilty for not posting more recently. It's because I've been insanely heads down on product work.

It's thoroughly humbling how the last 5% of a product consumes 95% of the development time. So many edge cases to accommodate. So many performance improvements to make. So many devices and screen sizes to optimize for. Across web browsers, operating systems, email clients, protocols, phones, tablets, laptops, desktops. Plus GDPR and CCPA. OMG.

Mad respect for any software developer who is able to ship anything worthwhile these days.

Nice.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-joins-forces-with-we-aid/