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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

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

Merch Drop: People, Not Platforms V1

We've been posting it on social media, saying it loudly into mics at conferences, and yelling it from any rooftop they'll let us on: People, Not Platforms. It's a motto that drives us to continue building for the open social web so we can

Bridgy Fed Config & Patreon

Today, we're launching two projects we've been excited to unveil for a while: a settings page for Bridgy Fed and a Patreon for all the folks who have asked us how they can support our work. Let's dive in! Bridgy Fed Config Until now,

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,