Whereas Bluesky and Mastodon are each decentralized social media networks, they function on completely different protocols, ActivityPub and AT Protocol. You may not ever know that except you’re our form of nerd and / or somebody who’s making an attempt to increase their attain on different platforms with out ranging from scratch. Instruments like Bridgy Fed exist for broadcasting throughout the 2 aforementioned social media networks. And now A New Social, the nonprofit accountable for that very device, has debuted a brand new one referred to as Bounce, which helps you to migrate your account from Bluesky to Mastodon with out shedding followers or the flexibility to submit on Bluesky. It’s launching quickly, however no particular date has been introduced but.
Bounce is constructed on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bluesky posts seen on Mastodon and vice versa. Utilizing Bounce will bridge your accounts, in case you haven’t already arrange Bridgy Fed. Then, Bounce can transfer your account from Bluesky to Mastodon by shifting private knowledge servers and using the native “transfer” performance that ActivityPub and AT Protocol have in frequent. A New Social CEO and government director Anuj Ahooja tells The Verge, “Of us on Bluesky will probably by no means even know you’ve Bounced to Mastodon.”
A New Social considers Bounce to be a “transferring truck” for Bluesky customers, letting them transfer their accounts with out shedding their steady of followers (and individuals who they’re following) when utilizing Mastodon. Ought to your Bluesky followers resolve to bridge their accounts with Bounce, they may mechanically comply with you on Mastodon, too. They received’t should comply with you once more.
There are minor caveats. A New Social says that if “a Bluesky person who isn’t bridged interacts with you, it received’t be seen on the Mastodon facet,” but it’s near launching a function that may notify you of any “off-bridge” interactions. Additionally, this beta function presently works for customers who need to go from Bluesky to Mastodon, not the opposite approach round, on account of Bluesky solely permitting third-party instruments resembling Bounce to “go away” their private knowledge servers, to not “enter or re-enter,” Ahooja says. The group at A New Social has spoken with Bluesky, which stated increasing the function is on its roadmap.