Surf is a “Social Browser” App From Flipboard
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Flipboard has unleashed Surf, a new kind of social app that combines a Feed Reader with a Feed Builder, with Social Interactions sprinkled in.

Today, we dig into the nitty-gritty of Surf, a new app by Flipboard. We document what it is, how it works, and areas where the experience could be improved.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      That’s not what this is. It’s more of a feed aggregator / reader with social features, framed as a browser of sorts.

      The main thing it’s used for is feed curation and content discovery. You can basically use anything with a feed as a source, then aggregate and filter things.

      It’s kind of like a news reader version of Yahoo Pipes almost.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Good to know. I have an inkling that this probably slipped under the radar when the SurfApp team were looking at branding and trademarks. Despite the fact that Suckless projects tend to have a somewhat popular following in the *nix community, it’s probably pretty obscure anywhere else.

      • msage@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, no surprise there, I found it only by pure luck, but suckless has been my jam for over a decade.

  • crawancon@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Maybe it’s this one, maybe it’s the next one, but I do think these are the types of solutions to several fediverse problems from either new user or experienced user that has some levels of expected functionality in a client that browses “social media feeds”.

    other side of the coin is that the do Everything apps made by single for profit entity means there will build incentive to attack it, copy it, etc. and all that info can be compromised…