Bounce lets you move from Bluesky to Mastodon without losing followers

While Bluesky and Mastodon are some decentralized societal media networks, they run connected different protocols, ActivityPub and AT Protocol. You mightiness not ever cognize that unless you’re our benignant of nerd and / oregon idiosyncratic who’s trying to grow their scope connected different platforms without starting from scratch. Tools similar Bridgy Fed beryllium for broadcasting crossed the 2 aforementioned societal media networks. And present A New Social, the nonprofit liable for that precise tool, has debuted a caller 1 called Bounce, which lets you migrate your relationship from Bluesky to Mastodon without losing followers oregon the quality to station connected Bluesky. It’s launching soon, but nary circumstantial day has been announced yet.

Bounce is built connected the enactment of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bluesky posts disposable connected Mastodon and vice versa. Using Bounce volition span your accounts, successful lawsuit you haven’t already acceptable up Bridgy Fed. Then, Bounce tin determination your relationship from Bluesky to Mastodon by shifting idiosyncratic information servers and utilizing the autochthonal “move” functionality that ActivityPub and AT Protocol person successful common. A New Social CEO and enforcement manager Anuj Ahooja tells The Verge, “Folks connected Bluesky volition apt ne'er adjacent cognize you’ve Bounced to Mastodon.”

A New Social considers Bounce to beryllium a “moving truck” for Bluesky users, letting them determination their accounts without losing their unchangeable of followers (and radical who they’re following) erstwhile utilizing Mastodon. Should your Bluesky followers determine to span their accounts with Bounce, they volition automatically travel you connected Mastodon, too. They won’t person to travel you again.

There are insignificant caveats. A New Social says that if “a Bluesky idiosyncratic who isn’t bridged interacts with you, it won’t beryllium disposable connected the Mastodon side,” yet it’s adjacent to launching a diagnostic that volition notify you of immoderate “off-bridge” interactions. Also, this beta diagnostic presently works for users who privation to spell from Bluesky to Mastodon, not the different mode around, owed to Bluesky lone allowing third-party tools specified arsenic Bounce to “leave” their idiosyncratic information servers, not to “enter oregon re-enter,” Ahooja says. The squad astatine A New Social has spoken with Bluesky, which said expanding the diagnostic is connected its roadmap.