"Bounce, a technology designed to make your social media account more portable across open social services, is making it possible for users to move their Mastodon accounts to Bluesky. On Tuesday, the makers of Bounce introduced its latest beta version, Bounce 2, which lets you take your Mastodon social graph and migrate it or merge it into a profile for your Bluesky account."
"With this change, arriving on October 20, users on the open social web will be able to move in either direction: from Mastodon to Bluesky or vice versa. The idea is that this account portability prevents users from getting stuck on a service if they come to disagree with its state of development, terms of use, moderation decisions, or anything else. Instead, they can simply pick up their account and go elsewhere."
"Today, the open social web includes different underlying technologies, called protocols, like ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others; and the AT Protocol, which underpins Bluesky, Skylight, and other social apps. The two protocols don't interoperate, which is why bridges - tools that connect different platforms - were introduced. Currently, users can bridge their accounts so others on different networks can follow their content, no matter what service they prefer to use."
Bounce 2 enables migration or merging of a Mastodon social graph into a Bluesky profile and supports movement in either direction beginning October 20. Account portability allows users to leave a service if they disagree with development, terms, or moderation by taking their accounts elsewhere. A New Social developed the cross-protocol migration tool to improve accessibility and functionality across the open social web. The open social web uses distinct protocols such as ActivityPub and the AT Protocol, which do not interoperate, so bridges and tools like Bridgy Fed and Bounce connect platforms and make profiles visible across networks.
Read at TechCrunch
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]