Bounce Introduces A Tool To Move Your Mastodon Account To Bluesky

Bounce, a technology designed to make your societal media relationship much portable crossed unfastened societal services, is making it imaginable for users to move their Mastodon accounts to Bluesky. On Tuesday, nan makers of Bounce introduced its latest beta version, Bounce 2, which lets you return your Mastodon societal chart and migrate it aliases merge it into a floor plan for your Bluesky account.

With this change, arriving connected October 20, users connected nan unfastened societal web will beryllium capable to move successful either direction: from Mastodon to Bluesky aliases vice versa. The thought is that this relationship portability prevents users from getting stuck connected a work if they travel to disagree pinch its authorities of development, position of use, moderation decisions, aliases 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 nan nonprofit A New Social, which is processing technologies designed to make nan unfastened societal web much accessible and functional.

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

The 2 protocols don’t interoperate, which is why bridges — devices that link different platforms — were introduced. Currently, users tin span their accounts truthful others connected different networks tin travel their content, nary matter what work they for illustration to use.

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

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

Image Credits:Bridgy Fed sketch (A New Social)

With today’s launch, Bounce 2 tin now do nan reverse: it tin move a Mastodon user’s societal chart to Bluesky, aliases merge it into a bridged floor plan for their existing Bluesky (or ATProto) account.

Things are a small spot different erstwhile moving successful this direction, nan statement notes.

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

“We judge services for illustration Bluesky and Mastodon are only introduction points into nan 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 nan technologies that activity champion for them, and still link pinch their people, nary matter what they use.”

Bounce 2 launches later this month, and users tin support nan nonprofit via its Patreon aliases merch store.