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/🧵
A New Social
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/
Apr 28, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Time to Migrate
Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. This month marks the third anniversary of my Mastodon migration and I’m convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why.
Notes on migrating a Bluesky account | Archived fry69
So You Want to Migrate... If you have an account on a Bluesky mushroom PDS (\<mushroom>.\*.bsky.network) and want to migrate to another PDS (e.g., your own), this can currently be a daunting task. As of this writing, there are a few web-based migration tools available, but even with those you might...
Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
Mastodon is for the people
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
[Guide] - Bluesky to Twitter/X migration
For those who have decided to leave Twitter/X for Bluesky, or, like me, have joined both platforms, one of the first challenges is replicating your follows. If you have a significant number of accounts you’re following, manually searching for and re-following them on Bluesky can be a tedious and time-consuming process. Earlier today, I decided to dig into whether there are any tools or methods to make this transition easier. After exploring several options, I came across a particularly
Interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #1716
What are the current plans from BlueSky (the company) for interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub? We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fedive...
Mastodon's Eternal September
Figure 1: A ‘joke’ t-shirt made in 1994 commemorating Eternal September, taken from The Eternal September Wikipedia page The latest round of Twitter nonsense (changing the way “blocking” works) has caused another wave of people to abandon that site for pastures new. Nearly every one of them went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon. 1.2 Million people joined Bluesky in 48 hours. I wonder why that is? I bet there’s something about where people draw the line on Twitter’s behaviour and where they choose to go next. But I bet there’s something else to it too.
interesting to see mastodon take what seems like considerable inspiration from the atmosphere and bluesky i suspect we will see these two grow closer and closer together especially when spaces are officially implemented here and a space authority can function sort of like a mastodon server...
5.0: Laying the foundation
blog.joinmastodon.orghere is how i've been explaining PDS migration to the 115 users i've migrated: imagine your bluesky account as being an apartment. you're upset the rent is changing, so you move to a cheaper apartment on the other side of town. after you move, you have to update your address with the post office.
daniel holmgren 🫠
& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread
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/
Bounce Update: PDS Provider Migrations
blog.anew.socialNow in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse wordpress.com/blog/2026/05/28/reader-social…
Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
wordpress.comhere is how i've been explaining PDS migration to the 115 users i've migrated: imagine your bluesky account as being an apartment. you're upset the rent is changing, so you move to a cheaper apartment on the other side of town. after you move, you have to update your address with the post office.
daniel holmgren 🫠
& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread
