A New Social

Bridgy Fed now also bridges your profile links between the Atmosphere and Fediverse 🔗↔️🔗

Bridgy Fed is open source, so onlookers have noticed we’ve experimented with adding protocols to our codebase, namely Nostr & Farcaster. Both are in the codebase with near-readiness to launch, but we currently have no plans to launch them. For transparency, here's why:

woohoo! we've also integrated interledger's webmonetization standard into bridgy fed, so we can bridge this across networks 👀

Bridgy Fed now officially supports Mastodon quote posts! If you see a post bridged from the Atmosphere on the Fediverse, you can quote it using your Mastodon account. Small note: this will work for posts starting this week - older posts are not supported. Happy quoting!

New status update! Better response UI, real fediverse outboxes, profile update fixes, faster fediverse delivery, security and reliability improvements, and more…

I am decommissioning the toolsforthought .social Mastodon server, and taking the opportunity to test moving my boris @ tft account to my main atproto account. This should happen somewhat automatically thanks to @anew.social's Bounce service bounce.anew.social

Oh, hey! 👋🏼

@microcosm.blue 🤝🏼 @anew.social A huge huge thanks to @bad-example.com for helping us with this! We couldn't do it without your support!

If you've backfilled the network before, you probably noticed the 65k bridged accounts you couldn't sync. …until a week ago! Bridgy Fed's `getRepo` is now open, and served by Hubble!

I am simply amazed by what the guys from @anew.social are doing with Bridgy Fed, connecting the two worlds. My bridged pixelfed account almost feels like a first class citizen here, now that I gave it a proper handle: @pixelfed.artistic-vision.de #atproto #activitypub #bridge #bridgyfed #pixelfed

We’re thrilled to have Bounce (@anew.social) as one of our honorable mentions at the Open Social Awards 🏆as one of many leading projects being built outside Big Tech! newpublic.org/OSA

“We believe the heart of social networks are people — not platforms or protocols.” This is @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social, the non-profit behind Bounce. Bounce makes it easy for users to shift between the two biggest open social web protocols: AT Protocol and ActivityPub.

Finally, Bounce (@anew.social) builds crucial infrastructure — making it easy for users to shift between the two biggest open social web protocols, ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon) and AT Protocol (which powers Bluesky.)

"Unity is power" - @rude1.blacksky.team 🤝🏼💪🏼

We also want to recognize our five amazing honorable mentions: Bounce from @anew.social, @dandelion.events, @stream.place, @leaflet.pub, and Bonfire Networks. These products all have something useful to offer, besides the fact that they’re running on decentralized protocols.

So honored that Bounce is on this list of amazing projects 🫶 And congrats to @newsmastfoundation.org, @sill.social, and @blackskyweb.xyz for winning awards today!! So very well deserved!

And congratulations to the honorable mentions: * Bounce * Dandelion * Streamplace * Leaflet * Bonfire Network at today's Open Social Award.

This is such a crucial milestone for the open social web. Around here, we build Bridgy, not walls. And with this coalition of incredible organizations and individuals, we're going to break a whole lot more walls down together 🤝🏼💪🏼

Incredibly proud to be a founding signatory as @anew.social! We're stronger together 🤝🏼

Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe

Whoa, those stickers on the top right look pretty cool 👀 (we'd eat from both plates btw, maybe even make a double decker sandwich with one from each)

"Leading projects in our space are launching a declaration backing the European Social Stack on Friday at PublicSpaces, with Eurosky, Mastodon, the Social Web Foundation and A New Social among the founding signatories" 👀 👀 👀

"The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together." We couldn't agree more

We heard folks on the Atmosphere like a credible exit 👀

Connecting protocols is hard, complicated work. But somebody's gotta do it 💪🏼

"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/

Wrote up some thoughts on new *atmospheric generatives* Things that can generate value even in environments where everything can be copied, like: contextualization • fluidity • aggregation • relationality Riffing on a @kevinkelly.bsky.social piece from years ago; extending for the atmosphere!

At #2MR our founder, @michael.eurosky.social, and Björn Staschen introduced the Hamburg Declaration - a shared set of principles, across protocols, focused on growing European social media alternatives. watch.2mr.social/w/mSkBvuNN2R... #EuropeanSocial #DigtialSovereignty

We're so excited to have signed a declaration of cooperation with the amazing folks at @eurosky.social, @newsmastfoundation.org, Social Web Foundation, and Save Social to bring the open social web together. It's time to Build Bridgy, Not Walls 🌐

We're so excited to have signed a declaration of cooperation with the amazing folks at @eurosky.social, @newsmastfoundation.org, Social Web Foundation, and Save Social to bring the open social web together. It's time to Build Bridgy, Not Walls 🌐

wow he's a patron of @anew.social that's like so cool I Will Also Support A New Social With My Dollars 😵‍💫🐸

Get these guys paid! They do so much critical work that is legitimately changing the internet for the better.

Infrastructure isn't cheap, especially when you have nearly 150K accounts, most of which are *very* active. Please consider donating! We have tiers starting at less than $1/mo if you subscribe annually. We have a lot more coming, and Bridgy Fed and Bounce will be the foundation for all of it.

The EFF has a cool post about Bridgy Fed! www.eff.org/deeplink... #mastodon #blueksy #activitypub #atproto #eff

The true secret sauce of Bridgy Fed: That it doesn’t just bridge Mastodon and Bluesky, it also bridges them both to and from the IndieWeb. And what’s the IndieWeb? At its core it’s POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML), with some added WebMention on top. You can even make it work with a static site!

A new challenger appears 💥 You can now log into the Bridgy Fed settings page with your website using IndieAuth! Bridging your website to the Atmosphere and the Fediverse just got a whole lot easier.