Epic Surf beta just dropped tonight. Deep AT Proto integration. Unifies social web around AT Proto, ActivityPub and RSS. If all goes well with our existing beta testers we will start letting in new wave of folks this weekend and early next week. For more details: techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/o... - ThreadSky

mmccue.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Epic Surf beta just dropped tonight. Deep AT Proto integration. Unifies social web around AT Proto, ActivityPub and RSS.

If all goes well with our existing beta testers we will start letting in new wave of folks this weekend and early next week.

For more details: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/open-social-web-browser-surf-integrates-with-bluesky-in-latest-beta/

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johnmcnwoods.kawaii.social•3 days ago

Good, about time, been waiting long enough!

macca1950.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about…

mmccue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surf lets you discover and create custom feeds on the open social web. For example TechTalk shows tech related posts from journalists, engineers and founders along with top podcasts, YouTube channels and newsletters. You can surf feeds others have made or you can make your own and share them.

mmccue.bsky.social•2 days ago

It uses AT proto, activitypub and rss under the hood so that you can see and engage with posts from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Wordpress, Flipboard, Medium, YouTube, and many more. You can also post and reply directly from Surf. It’s all incredibly customizable so you do social media your way.

mmccue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hope that helps. You can learn more and sign up for the beta at https://surf.social

ramshackle78.bsky.social•3 days ago

This sounds great. Any plans to make this a standalone iPad/MacOS app as well? Given the larger screen real estate and what the app is trying to do it would be unique

mmccue.bsky.social•3 days ago

💯 this is high on the list for next major beta.

mister-hangman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mike I sent feedback via TestFlight. Can’t log in with these Bluesky credentials. Keeps saying something went wrong.

mmccue.bsky.social•1 day ago

We're having some difficulty with 2FA. Not sure if this is your issue. One good thing is to try creating an app password in Bluesky and using that to sign in. Let me know if that works.

mister-hangman.bsky.social•3 days ago

PLEASE MIKE PLEASEEEE

trump-is-a-virus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does it support IOS 16? I have an iPhone X that works fine and I refuse to be extorted for $1100 for a new phone.

mmccue.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Yes that should work ok. Let me know if you run into issues.

bracht.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have Bsky, Mastodon, Flipboard AND Threads accounts, just let me in pleassssss

mmccue.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hah! Will do!

fricker.bsky.social•3 days ago

I would be interested to hear how consumers and developers are evaluating use cases where these technologies complement each other. I'd also like to know where cognitive overload surfaces when these technologies are integrated.

rolarizpe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seria interesante poder usarlo desde un navegador web y no solo desde la app.

thatnerdjb.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sounds cool, I miss the early years of using Flipboard. It was truly a neat experience when the iPad had just launched.

crisjay.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

mmccue.bsky.social•3 days ago

You can sign up for beta at https://waitlist.surf.social

michaelfransen.com•3 days ago

I think something is wrong with sign-in. I enter my credentials and get an error, but I am getting emails from Bluesky with codes to enter but there is no place to enter them.

stealth1248.bsky.social•3 days ago

Try using an app-specific password from the Bluesky app

atmorous.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah I don't trust the leadership behind this.

Flipboard isn't open source at all, & owned by a corporation not a unionized-cooperative or decentralized

"Surf becomes an alternative to using the Bluesky app itself" that seems like it can lead to controlling people.

That'll be a pass from me

crohnenberg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Agree, waiting for an open source alternative that combines Bluesky and RSS

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