The best way to see whether it would work is by checking how the actor from flipboard is presented. Go to https://browser.pub/@how-to-watch-cbssports@flipboard.com and tou will see that it does not have the attributes that Lemmy expects.
Very, but last I checked Flipboard’s federation had some bugs that were not possible to work around… announced activities did not have a stable timestamp, it uses only the magazine as the actor (so we have no way to interact with the person that actually flipped/commented on their topic, etc). But it would be really cool if flipboard users could have Lemmy communities mapped to their magazines, so make the interaction between the two sides seamless. @greg@flipboard.social , what do you think?
It is a great way to avoid spam bots.