Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky

Bounce, a technology designed to marque your societal media relationship much portable crossed unfastened societal services, is making it imaginable for users to determination their Mastodon accounts to Bluesky. On Tuesday, the makers of Bounce introduced its latest beta version, Bounce 2, which lets you instrumentality your Mastodon societal graph and migrate it oregon merge it into a illustration for your Bluesky account.

With this change, arriving connected October 20, users connected the unfastened societal web volition beryllium capable to determination successful either direction: from Mastodon to Bluesky oregon vice versa. The thought is that this relationship portability prevents users from getting stuck connected a work if they travel to disagree with its authorities of development, presumption of use, moderation decisions, oregon thing else. Instead, they tin simply prime up their relationship and spell elsewhere.

Bounce’s cross-protocol migration instrumentality was first introduced successful August by the nonprofit A New Social, which is processing technologies designed to marque the unfastened societal web much accessible and functional.

Today, the unfastened societal web includes antithetic underlying technologies, called protocols, similar ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others; and the AT Protocol, which underpins Bluesky, Skylight, and different societal apps.

The 2 protocols don’t interoperate, which is wherefore bridges — tools that link antithetic platforms — were introduced. Currently, users tin span their accounts truthful others connected antithetic networks tin travel their content, nary substance what work they similar to use.

Bounce is built connected exertion that was archetypal developed for Bridgy Fed, different instrumentality that connects Mastodon and Bluesky by making users’ profiles connected 1 work disposable connected the other.

Originally, the work was capable to determination a user’s Bluesky relationship to a bridged relationship that straddles the 2 networks, and past to the user’s Mastodon account.

Image Credits:Bridgy Fed diagram (A New Social)

With today’s launch, Bounce 2 tin present bash the reverse: it tin determination a Mastodon user’s societal graph to Bluesky, oregon merge it into a bridged illustration for their existing Bluesky (or ATProto) account.

Things are a small spot antithetic erstwhile moving successful this direction, the enactment notes.

When “bouncing” from Bluesky to Mastodon, if the Mastodon relationship was already bridged, past the user’s follower lists volition beryllium merged, not replaced. In addition, erstwhile you bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky, your archetypal posts and contented won’t travel with you, dissimilar erstwhile moving successful the different direction.

“We judge services similar Bluesky and Mastodon are lone introduction points into the unfastened societal web, but those introduction points should not beryllium a trap into yet different ecosystem,” an announcement from A New Social reads. “People should beryllium capable to alteration their minds, usage the technologies that enactment champion for them, and inactive link with their people, nary substance what they use.”

Bounce 2 launches aboriginal this month, and users tin enactment the nonprofit via its Patreon oregon merch store.