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Bounce Helps You Switch Networks


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.

Bounce Announcement


“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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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.
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Petr and Peter Boy sharing the state of docs, a foundation for all community. #flocktofedora




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"Raspberry Pi... is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code." Well, duh.


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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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)


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A sad, but likely not that impactful change - Bazaar was never as popular as Git.

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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 🫡


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in reply to Caesar Wirth

Okay, but what are they? Doesn't instantly mean they're a bad thing. A lot of it is likely analytics (that's normal), video, gifs and so on.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@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.


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Just a reminder that we're an AI Gen free zone, no AI used for anything and we don't clickbait either: gamingonlinux.com/
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

as a content creator myself I appreciate your work and staying away from shortcuts, "pleasing the algorithm" and just dishonest tactics.

I bet it doesn't pay off yet, but one day it will if we stick with it. There's more to success than just numbers (traffic and engagement).

Again, thank you for your content!

in reply to Archer

@herbsman most of what I do is against the grain, mostly for worse financially, but i sleep better knowing i'm not a clickbait twat


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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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.