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Latest — 11 Nov 2025

Bonfire 🤝🏼 A New Social

Over the past year, we've been talking to builders across the open social web to help more users be protocol-agnostic on the platforms they're already on. One of these platforms is Bonfire Social. Bonfire is a feature-rich, modular social media tool set built on ActivityPub that

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Launch: New Blocking Features on Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed has always had a simple way to block users over the bridge, whether the other user is bridged or not. If the user is bridged, you can use your native platform’s blocking features. If the user is not bridged, it’s as simple as DMing the Bridgy

Launch: Bounce from Mastodon to an existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or other ATProto Account

Today, we're excited to roll out the second Bounce Beta we announced at FediForum earlier this month. With this new release, you'll be able to migrate from Mastodon to an existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account with all your followers and all your bridged

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

0:00 /0:05 1× Back in August, we released our first Bounce Beta. It allowed Bluesky users to migrate to Mastodon using Bridgy Fed while keeping all their followers and their bridged follows. With our next Bounce Beta, you will be able to Bounce your Mastodon account to Bluesky!

AltStore 🤝🏼 A New Social

At A New Social, we believe that interoperability is at the core of user choice. While we focus on the open social web, there are other organizations working towards similar goals for different aspects of our digital lives. The AltStore is an example of such an organization, focusing on a

Launch: Notifications from Unbridged Users

So far, Bridgy Fed has been doing a smooth job of connecting users between ecosystems, enabling cross-protocol communication over the bridge. That said, there are limitations when a user who isn't bridged interacts with someone's bridged account. Currently, these interactions do not send a notification to

New $1-2 Patreon Tiers! And Funding Update

Hey everyone 👋🏼 Following the successful launch of the Bounce Beta last week, we felt this would be a good opportunity to review how A New Social is progressing eight months in. I wanted to provide some insight into our projects and our financial health, as we aim to operate Bridgy

Bounce Beta Now Live!

In early June, we previewed Bounce: A Cross-Protocol Migration Tool. This first-of-its-kind service enables users to migrate their follow graphs between ActivityPub and ATProto with Bridgy Fed as a mediator. While we thought Bounce's capabilities were incredibly cool, we had no idea it would be received with the

Bridging identity with account links

One of the most common questions we get here is, “can you help me connect all my different accounts?” You’re on Bluesky, and Instagram, and Mastodon, you make a video series on YouTube, you have a blog, sometimes you post on Reddit, and a while back you set up

Bridging vs cross-posting

When we talk about what we do here, one topic that comes up often is bridging vs cross-posting. They’ve both been around for a long time, and they’re similar, but they’re different in some important ways. Notably, bridging results in more unified conversations, while cross-posted conversations are