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Latest — 10 Feb 2026

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

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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 us

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 of

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

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