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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

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

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

Breaking Ground

Hello, everyone! It's been a while since our last update, so we wanted to catch you up on some of the early work we've been doing behind the scenes to set up the organization and what's coming up soon. Building the Organization Turns out,