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/

"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!

If a quarter of the accounts on Bridgy Fed donated $1/mo, we could run completely on community donations for the long-term. Please help us continue to be an independent non-profit!

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

We've been launching a ton of Bridgy Fed & Bounce features, and we have a lot more coming! We're also a non-profit run by two full-time volunteers, and majority of our expenses are infrastructure to keep it all running. If you believe in the mission and love our work, please consider donating 🫶🏼

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.

🎤 *ahem* 🎶 We don't care 🎶 👉🏼 Who's your host 👉🏼 Where you post 👉🏼 Don't care what's your DID As long as you Bridgy 🫶🏼

Mackinac just keeps getting better 😍

Also, Bridgy Fed supports inbound RSS for bridged web sites, *and* serves outbound RSS for feeds and notifications for other bridged accounts. We love RSS and the web!

Your Leaflets now distribute via atproto / @standard.site, RSS, *and* email all at once. And if your Atmosphere account is bridged via Bridgy fed, you're also distributing via ActivityPub. Why would you ever need Substack when it barely does half of that *and* locks you in? It's time to switch 🍃

Very cool to see Bridgy Fed featured in the latest @eff.org piece 🙏🏼

A reminder: you can be on a @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @transrights.northsky.social, @selfhosted.social, @blueat.net, or *any* other Atmosphere PDS - including one you host yourself! - and Bridgy Fed will bridge you to the Fediverse

Easier interoperability between these two open protocols is exciting.

"I have a bridge to sell you." ⸺ Ryan Barrett ( @snarfed.org ) #fediforum #fediforum2026 #bridgyfed

Bounce now goes both ways for real! You can now shuffle from atmosphere [atproto, Blacksky, Northsky, Bluesky, etc] <-> fediverse [ActivityPub ecosystem, Mastodon etc.] whenever you want and live your weirdest best life. blog.anew.social/bounce-pds-p...

@tynanpurdy.com saying it louder 🗣️🗣️🗣️

For the people in the back, if you made a Mastodon account a couple years ago and want to move to Bluesky, giving you access to the whole Atmosphere, you can migrate and *bring everything with you*. 1/🧵

Bounce from Mastodon. Join @blackskyweb.xyz 👈🏾

Today, we're launching the ability to Bounce from Mastodon to any Atmosphere PDS you have access to, whether it be @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @transrights.northsky.social, @selfhosted.social, or even your self-hosted option! You can also bring an invite code when necessary 🎟️ 1/

As of 21:55 UTC, the maintenance is complete and bridging should be back ✅ Catching up on missed posts now ⏩ We're actively monitoring Bridgy Fed, but things are looking good so far!

⚠️ We're about to kick-off our system maintenance. Expect intermittent pausing of bridging between 21:00 to 00:00 UTC. We'll backfill any missed posts after the maintenance is complete.

Okay, we're officially back on for the system maintenance tomorrow (4/22). A reminder that bridging may be paused from 2pm-5pm PT, but will shortly be turned back on and backfilled for missed posts. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

Quick update: we're pushing back the system maintenance and will have a new date/time shortly

⚠️ Bridgy Fed Planned System Maintenance This Wednesday (4/22) we have planned system maintenance between 2pm-5pm PT. During that time, bridging may be paused, but will shortly be turned back on and backfilled for missed posts. Thank you, and apologies for any inconvenience.

This is a big deal! Super excited to be working with Tim and the team to launch this ground-breaking community app, where every account is automatically bridged to Bluesky, courtesy of @anew.social

🗣️ Build Bridgy, Not Walls

I, too, believe in building bridges. Especially the ones that seem the most difficult, because those are also the most urgent 🤝🏼 You should be able to find that cozy corner regardless of which technology your community members are using. People, not platforms.

Love this project by @j12t.org and @fediforum.org that surface numerous ways you can use the open social web! Excited to be a part of the launch with Bridgy Fed and Bounce listings already in place 🙏🏼

Lore drop 🧾

My talk from #AtmosphereConf is up on YouTube! I talk about all the dreams we accomplished within only a year, lessons I learned along the way, and some of the new dreams I have for the next few years. Biggest lesson: dream bigger, bc @snarfed.org can literally build anything.

We see no lies, but we do see a pretty cool hat 👀

We want to make bridging feel as native as possible. These feature are just the start.

This is amazing. Super glad to see the cross protocol client space heating up like this.

Love everything about this brand. It's a bridge and does what it says on the tin. Northern Michigan is also a place with a particular relationship w/ bridges. And for the locals, Mackinac is a shibboleth that's not pronounced the way anybody outside the region would understand.

@mackinac.social, built by @whiteside.io, is an open social web client that's thinking multi-protocol and bridging-first! John's added a *ton* of unique features we've never seen before, so we wanted to outline a few of them in a thread 👇🏼 1/🧵

smh no annie character merch

We heard a lot of people wanted People, Not Platforms merch at #AtmosphereConf 👀 We've got hoodies, t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more on our online store: store.anew.social

Got the blues because Fediverse posts coming through Bridgy Fed that are over 300 characters get truncated on the Atmosphere and you have to click into a link? Well, good news: starting today, @deck.blue shows the *full* post from over the bridge - no truncation, no links!

“decentralization is a win for everyone” 🤝 It’s a big sky and we only win by working together

"this isn’t competition, it’s momentum" 🎯🎯🎯

Coming soon 👀