A major development showing capacity for the open social web was unveiled at the online conference on Thursday Fediforam,
Manufacturers Of Fed fedEquipment developed by a device that connects decentralized open social networks like Mastodon and Blussky New project is called bounce This will allow users to migrate their social network followers in the network operated by various protocols.
It is an important step towards making open social web to make a more viable option for lock-in ecosystems provided by technical giants like meta, snap, Google, Ticketk, and X-and where you can be able to remove your account and export your data, but really cannot transfer your account to a new app.
Today, Mastodon, Blussky and other social services that run on their protocols (activity and AT protocols respectively), allow users to move their accounts within their protocol network.
This means that a mastodon user can do Migrate their account on another mastodon serverWhile Blussky allows users to move their accounts and data From one individual data server (PDS) to another(The latter is still a task in progress because you can go away from the PDS of Bluusky but not back!)
However, it is not possible for users to move their accounts or maintain their following by going from one network to another.
Now, under the leadership of a non -profit organization called a new social, the manufacturers of Bridgy Fed have developed technology that will make this type of migration possible.
The technology made the bridged account of its mastodon profile (an account that listens to your Mastodon Post and then repeats them on Bluuski, the technique is on the fed to allow “carry” followers of their blossomy on your blossky, to allow “carrying” to “carry”, so that your blossom can see them), then take them for the user.
How it works under the hood is technically complex because both platforms have different ways to handle migration. This is why Bridgy Fed has to act as some of a middleman, which enables transition to its own servers, custom-made by the purpose of bridging and moves.
Currently a proof-of-concept, technology will launch in beta in a few weeks-but not for casual user.
Anuj Ahuja, CEO and Executive Director of New Social Social, says, “I don’t want to say that it is a technical demo, but it was really important to prove that it is possible.”
Currently there are some complications. You cannot go back to the PDS of Blussky as the social network has not yet produced that technology for the beginning.
Also, if a person on the Blussky who does not interact with your “transferred” account, you will not see that once you are towards Mastodon. But the team is working on developing a feature that will inform you about off-bridge interactions, says Ahoja.
In addition, the boom alerts you about how many people you do not follow, so if they ever bridge, you can follow them again.
Ultimately, the team hopes that the technology in the boom will be obscured from everyday open social users, instead it can decide which app they want to use and then pass through a few small stages to move their following.
And today, the bounce supports Blussky, Mastodon, and Pixeld (a activist-based photo-sharing app), the long-term goals will have to support any open social platform and protocol, whether it is a long-time-form blogging platform like a ghost, or even other networks such as the ghost.
“We are trying to create an interface for the open social web to handle some of these hard movements, which you have to do,” Ahoja explained. “So, if you are doing something that is doing Bluuski – or even if you are not sad, but you feel that a platform on the activity is doing something like doing something you really need to do … (you can) can do these few clicks on the bounce,” he said.
Bounce is a new social to third project. Apart from Bridgy Fed, the organization also launched a Setting page A few weeks ago that makes the process of preparing easy bridge easier and allows you to set a custom domain for your account.
The overall goal in a new social is to transfer the power of the social network back to the people, not the platform manufacturers, giving them equipment that allow them to transfer their account and their following, and leave whether a platform ever fails them somehow.
This motto of “Peepal Not Platform” is now Ragged A new social sells, such as tees, hoodies, hats, cups, and stickers that help in mudrying its efforts, along with it Patron,
