Bounce

Bounce is an open social web migration tool. It lets you migrate your account from one decentralized social network to another, and still keep all of your followers, along with some of the people you follow.

Which networks are supported?

Bounce currently supports migrating from Bluesky to Mastodon or Pixelfed, and from Mastodon to Bluesky. We hope to add support for Threads, micro.blog, and more in the future.

What gets migrated, exactly?

Right now, only your profile, followers, and some follows. The existing posts on the accounts you migrate from and to will stay the same; only new posts going forward will get bridged back to the old account.

We hope to add support for migrating posts, likes, blocks, and other data eventually!

How does it work?

When Bounce migrates you, it uses Bridgy Fed to bridge your new account back to your old network so that your followers there can still see you and your posts.

For your follows, ie the people you follow, Bounce uses Bridgy Fed to detect which of them are already in your new network and following you over the bridge, and which are in your old network but are themselves bridged into the new one. It then reconnects all of those follows so that you still see and follow them after you migrate.

Under the covers, Bounce uses each network’s built in support for account migration, eg ActivityPub’s Move activity for the fediverse, and AT Protocol’s account migration for Bluesky. Bounce migrates your old account into Bridgy Fed, so that it becomes a bridged version of your new account that’s fully owned and managed by Bridgy Fed.