Bounce offers a tool to transfer your Mastodon account to Bluesky

BounceA technology It is designed to make your social media account more portable across open social services, allowing users to move their Mastodon accounts to Bluesky. On Tuesday, the makers of Bounce introduced their latest beta version, Bounce 2, which lets you take your Mastodon social graph and migrate it over or integrate it into a profile for your Bluesky account.

With this change, arriving on October 20, users on the open social network will be able to move in either direction: from Mastodon to Bluesky or vice versa. The idea is that this account portability prevents users from stumbling upon the service if they disagree with the state of development, terms of use, moderation decisions, or anything else. Instead, they can simply pick up their accounts and go elsewhere.

It was Bounce’s cross-protocol migration tool Presented for the first time In August before Non-profit New socialwhich develops technologies designed to make the open social web more accessible and effective.

Today, the open social web includes different underlying technologies, called protocols, e.g Activity barwhich powers Mastodon, TopicsFlipboard, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others; and protocol, Which supports BlueskySkylight and other social apps.

The two protocols do not work together, which is why bridges – tools that connect different platforms – were introduced. Currently, users can link their accounts so that others on different networks can follow their content, regardless of which service they prefer to use.

Bounce is built on the technology for which it was first developed Bridge Vidanother tool that links Mastodon and Bluesky by making user profiles on one service visible on the other.

Originally, the service was able to move a user’s Bluesky account to a bridged account that spanned the two networks, and then to the user’s Mastodon account.

With today’s launch, Bounce 2 can now do the opposite: it can port a Mastodon user’s social graph to Bluesky, or integrate it into a plugged-in profile of an existing Bluesky (or ATProto) account.

The organization points out that things are somewhat different when moving in this direction.

When “bouncing” from Bluesky to Mastodon, if a Mastodon account has already been bridged, the user’s follower lists will be merged, not replaced. Additionally, when you move from Mastodon to Bluesky, your original posts and content won’t come with you, unlike when you move in the other direction.

“We believe that services like Bluesky and Mastodon are just entry points into the open social network, but these entry points should not be a trap for another ecosystem.” advertisement From new social readings. “People should be able to change their minds, use the technologies that work best for them, and continue to connect with their people, no matter what they use.”

Bounce 2 will launch later this month, and users can support the nonprofit through it Patreon or Merchandise store.