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Latest — 30 Oct 2026

The risks of bridging private data

One of the most common questions we get is, "Could you bridge my DMs?" And not just DMs, but also group chats, followers-only posts, subscriptions, groups and communities, etc. It's a fair question! People get used to interacting across networks from a single account, so

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Launches: Credible Exit, Bridged User Notifications, & Fediverse Re-Bridge

Today, we’re announcing a bunch of migration features and improvements across Bridgy Fed and Bounce. The main goal we had with these latest updates was to make it so people can migrate in every direction possible across ecosystems while reducing the friction of migrating while using our services. The

Bridging on a budget

Over the last few months, instead of adding new features to Bridgy Fed or Bounce, I’ve been focusing on cost cutting. It’s not fun, exactly. I’d rather be building new things! But we’re a non-profit, surviving on grants and individual donations from people who don’

Bounce Update: PDS Provider Migrations

Today, we're launching a long-awaited feature for Bounce: migrating your Atmosphere account that lives in Bridgy Fed out of the bridge and into a PDS provider of your choice, Bouncing you from the Fediverse to the Atmosphere without ever needing to create an account. 0:00 /0:

Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed

Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types in ActivityPub, ATProtocol-based microblogs would only receive a link to the article rather than the content of the long-form post. One of the

Launch: Interact with Unbridged Replies & Mentions

Last year, we launched a feature for Bridgy Fed that sent a DM of an hourly digest of interactions that we couldn't bridge back to your native platform. While that gave you visibility into interactions you normally wouldn't have, you still had to have an account

Launch: Domain Blocklists

In November last year, we began developing additional user-facing moderation features for Bridgy Fed users. While blocking users across the bridge was always possible via DMs, we knew it would be easier for users to manage their lists on the Bridgy Fed settings page, and it would also enable

Year One & Giving Tuesday

About a year ago, we began developing a plan for A New Social, a nonprofit organization focused solely on liberating users' social graphs from any single platform or protocol. A New Social adopted Bridgy Fed, a service built by co-founder Ryan Barrett, and received vocal support from some

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