News Summary

Flipboard has launched a new app called Surf, which introduces a custom video feed designed for browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky. This move follows a TikTok ban, and Surf’s video feed will initially combine video posts from Bluesky’s ‘trending video’ feed and hashtag #SkyTok. The company plans to personalize this feed further by incorporating users’ Bluesky Following timeline. Surf allows the creation of various video feeds, such as a ‘BookTok’ type feed, aggregating videos from services like YouTube and Mastodon. Currently, Surf is in a private beta stage.