Mike McCue, the CEO of Flipboard and an internet entrepreneur since the Netscape days, is a true believer in the fediverse. He doesn’t love the word: he’d much rather call it “the social web.” ...

BY Harry McCracken 8 minute read 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 ...