Bounce offers a tool to transfer your Mastodon account to Bluesky

BounceA technology Designed to make your social media account more scalable across open social services, users can port their Mastodon accounts to Bluesky. On Tuesday, the makers of Bounce introduced its latest Beta version, Bounce 2, which lets you take Mastodon’s 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 web 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 don’t agree with its status, terms of use, moderation decisions, or anything else. Alternatively, they can simply pick up their account and go elsewhere.

It was a cross-over Bounce relay It was introduced for the first time In August by Non-profit New socialwhich develops technologies designed to make the open social web more accessible and practical.

Today, the open Internet includes various underlying technologies, called protocols, such as ActivityPubthat is, the forces Mastodonand TopicsFlipboard, peertube, pixelfed, and others; and In the protocol, Which supports BlueskyAnd Skylight and other social apps.

It does not overlap protocols, which is why bridges – tools that connect different platforms – are introduced. Currently, users can bridge their accounts so that others from different networks can follow their content, regardless of which service they prefer to use.

Bounce is built on technology that was first developed Feed paddleanother tool that connects 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 Mastodon account that spanned both networks, and then to the user’s Mastodon account.

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

The foundation notes that things are a little different when moving in this direction.

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

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

Bounce 2 launches later this month, and users can support nonprofits through it Patreon or Shop Merch.