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@docteurslump I read on steam when tina turner was free on epic that studio making tina and borderlands changed its eula so...maybe there is some truth in it?
The team behind Bridgy Fed is building an innovative new tool that helps you automatically move from one network to another.
For the last few months, A New Social has been working hard to support and improve Bridgy Fed, a popular tool for connecting different Bluesky and IndieWeb platforms to the Fediverse. While it does some impressive work under the hood, the team behind it is looking at a new tool to help people seamlessly move across networks, while keeping most of their contacts. This is the core premise behind Bounce.
The Purpose of Bounce
Bounce aims to tackle a distinct problem for the open Social Web: providing an easy way to get onto the network, or move from one to the other.
Starting on a new platform is tedious, and it often makes us hesitant to try something new, even if we know it could be a better experience for us. It’s how we become locked into experiences that, over time, are no longer ideal for us.
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“We want to make this process as easy as possible,” says Anuj Ahooja, Executive Director of A New Social, “it shouldn’t have to be rocket science to join a network and find all of your friends.”
Trying to move platforms or, heck, even move instances has historically been a tedious process. Within the Fediverse, a handful of platforms support Mastodon’s “move action”, but the process tends to be tedious and sometimes prone to failure.
How Bounce Works
The main idea behind Bounce is fairly simple: connect two different accounts, and click “Move” to migrate from one place to the other. Under the hood, Bounce uses the ActivityPub and AT protocol to handle migrating contacts. If you’re on Bluesky and move to Mastodon, or vice versa, Bounce handles the accounts on the other network by providing you with your contacts through Bridgy Fed.
Source: A New Social
Obviously, there are some caveats. The opt-in nature of Bridgy Fed means that your followers only need to enable Bridgy Fed for themselves, if they want their replies to make it back to you. People that you’re following will need to have Bridgy Fed enabled for you to see their posts from across networks. Not every Mastodon or Bluesky user wants to be connected to the other network, so it’s reasonable to assume that some contacts won’t be carried over. Bounce anticipates this by showing just who exactly you’re able to stay connected with.
Future Potential
There are a few areas where Bounce could have a significant impact for the Social Web. One might involve migrating ActivityPub data from one Fediverse platform or instance to another. A more interesting area for opportunity might be to import data and contacts from a proprietary social network, and help people easily find their friends in a new space.
What’s important to understand is that Bounce could end up providing critical infrastructure for user account migration between different networks and services. If the project can make the process of joining the Fediverse or Atmosphere easier for new people, it could have a significant impact on growing both networks as a whole.
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Introducing: Bounce
Today at FediForum, we previewed Bounce: a new tool that uses Bridgy Fed to help migrate your social graph between Mastodon and Bluesky.
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My side quest at #FlockToFedora was meeting Petr Šimáček, a longtime #Fedora user and author of @mestskacyklistika. He gave me a tour of Radio Beat, where he works as a news guy, and took me on a one-hour #bike ride to show me all the gems of city #cycling in #Prague.
Have there been any good free games lately that do not require interaction with an online store? I see a lot of Steam... (and I prefer the source mostly)
To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub,...
I genuinely liked bzr when I used it. It was my first version control system so maybe that has something to do with it. But I found learning git much harder. RIP bzr. You were a real one 🫡
@gamingonlinux Yeah, it does all seem to be normal internal analytics. I wasn't necessarily making a judgement, just posting an interesting discrepancy I noticed while eating breakfast.
@OhWeh In some cases yes, but it's a valuable tool for people in all fields everywhere to know where to focus, there's a lot of reasons why Analytics are good
We also don’t hide the links to the games we’re writing about (or just not link at all), like we’ve noticed some other sites doing more lately. There’s a section at the bottom every time with clearly labelled store links.
Some sites are too scared to let people click away.
I have stopped going to several review sites for this exact reason! I know, I can easily search for the game after reading the article but having that link is super helpful for so many reasons.
there's also too many sites that just don't *have* a bottom anymore, they just stitch whatever articles they have on the bottom of the first one and keep going. as if it's the content i clicked there for
having played this myself, I can say it's a good game for sure and worth checking out.
There are some parts that don't work, like the dialog is a bit repetitive and I would have appreciated if the overworld player character sprite didn't always face a single direction.
All in all, it's a ol' west themed farming sim with a dash of a twin stick shooter.
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