Bounce introduces a device to maneuver your Mastodon account to Bluesky

Bounce, a expertise designed to make your social media account extra moveable throughout open social providers, is making it doable for customers to maneuver their Mastodon accounts to Bluesky. On Tuesday, the makers of Bounce launched its newest beta model, Bounce 2, which helps you to take your Mastodon social graph and migrate it or merge it right into a profile on your Bluesky account.

With this transformation, arriving on October 20, customers on the open social internet will be capable of transfer in both route: from Mastodon to Bluesky or vice versa. The concept is that this account portability prevents customers from getting caught on a service if they arrive to disagree with its state of improvement, phrases of use, moderation choices, or anything. As a substitute, they will merely choose up their account and go elsewhere.

Bounce’s cross-protocol migration device was first launched in August by the nonprofit A New Social, which is growing applied sciences designed to make the open social internet extra accessible and useful.

As we speak, the open social internet consists of totally different underlying applied sciences, known as protocols, like ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others; and the AT Protocol, which underpins Bluesky, Skylight, and different social apps.

The 2 protocols don’t interoperate, which is why bridges — instruments that join totally different platforms — had been launched. Presently, customers can bridge their accounts so others on totally different networks can observe their content material, it doesn’t matter what service they like to make use of.

Bounce is constructed on expertise that was first developed for Bridgy Fed, one other device that connects Mastodon and Bluesky by making customers’ profiles on one service seen on the opposite.

Initially, the service was capable of transfer a person’s Bluesky account to a bridged account that straddles the 2 networks, after which to the person’s Mastodon account.

With right now’s launch, Bounce 2 can now do the reverse: it could transfer a Mastodon person’s social graph to Bluesky, or merge it right into a bridged profile for his or her current Bluesky (or ATProto) account.

Issues are just a little bit totally different when shifting on this route, the group notes.

When “bouncing” from Bluesky to Mastodon, if the Mastodon account was already bridged, then the person’s follower lists will likely be merged, not changed. As well as, if you bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky, your unique posts and content material received’t include you, in contrast to when shifting within the different route.

“We imagine providers like Bluesky and Mastodon are solely entry factors into the open social internet, however these entry factors shouldn’t be a lure into yet one more ecosystem,” an announcement from A New Social reads. “Individuals ought to be capable of change their minds, use the applied sciences that work greatest for them, and nonetheless join with their individuals, it doesn’t matter what they use.”

Bounce 2 launches later this month, and customers can help the nonprofit through its Patreon or merch store.