A New Social
@anew.social
Social media should be centered around people, not platforms. Let's build bridges, not walls. That's why we're building Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
Learn more: https://anew.social
Learn more: https://anew.social
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
Launch: Interact with Unbridged Replies & Mentions
Last year, we launched a feature for Bridgy Fed that sent a DM of an hourly digest of interactions that we couldn't bridge back to your native platform. While that gave you visibility into interaction...
blog.anew.social
February 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We're excited to launch our most-requested Bridgy Fed feature: being able to interact with unbridged users!
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
Starting today, when people interact with you on the other side of the bridge, you'll get a notification over DM along with a "respond" link, where you can like, repost, reply, or block.
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So much to do and so much hype to attend all the things 🗓️
We've got a huge list of updates ahead of the end of early bird tickets, including announcing confirmed workshops for Thursday & Friday
Early bird ends, pre-conference workshops, travel support updates
An omnibus flurry of updates
news.atmosphereconf.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:17 AM
So much to do and so much hype to attend all the things 🗓️
So much to do and so much hype to attend all the things 🗓️
We've got a huge list of updates ahead of the end of early bird tickets, including announcing confirmed workshops for Thursday & Friday
Early bird ends, pre-conference workshops, travel support updates
An omnibus flurry of updates
news.atmosphereconf.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:17 AM
So much to do and so much hype to attend all the things 🗓️
Reposted by A New Social
We're now inviting Vancouver locals to help volunteer for ATmosphereConf 2026!
Join ATmosphereConf 2026 as an In-Person Volunteer
Apply to be a Volunteer for ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver
news.atmosphereconf.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 AM
We're now inviting Vancouver locals to help volunteer for ATmosphereConf 2026!
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There is no reason for one protocol to "win"
They can happily and interoperably coexist, just like RSS and Atom or POP3 and IMAP.
Shout out to @anew.social!
They can happily and interoperably coexist, just like RSS and Atom or POP3 and IMAP.
Shout out to @anew.social!
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
There is no reason for one protocol to "win"
They can happily and interoperably coexist, just like RSS and Atom or POP3 and IMAP.
Shout out to @anew.social!
They can happily and interoperably coexist, just like RSS and Atom or POP3 and IMAP.
Shout out to @anew.social!
Reposted by A New Social
We were just talking about this being cursed magic in the atproto dev meetup last night (I vocally said "do not invoke the Dark Magicks") but the only folks who've been able to safely handle this has been the team at @anew.social!
Seriously, don't reinvent the world: contribute!
Seriously, don't reinvent the world: contribute!
So, in passing this morning after our live stream, I mentioned to @snarfed.org that it would be nice if we took embedded Notes in Article Activity Streams types and bridged them as Bluesky posts rather than just linking to articles, and he...he just went and did the thing:
AP: use `preview` field? · Issue #2091 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
AS2 has a preview field! It didn't really get used in the wild in the fediverse much, so we didn't use it, but we're starting to see conversation (and implementation!) around long form content, eg ...
github.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 PM
We were just talking about this being cursed magic in the atproto dev meetup last night (I vocally said "do not invoke the Dark Magicks") but the only folks who've been able to safely handle this has been the team at @anew.social!
Seriously, don't reinvent the world: contribute!
Seriously, don't reinvent the world: contribute!
From now on, Articles bridged from the Fediverse that have Notes as previews embedded in them will show up with the Note text and the Article link on Atmosphere apps (Bluesky, Blacksky, etc.) rather than just an attached link!
❤️'s in the chat for @snarfed.org just doing things 👏🏼
❤️'s in the chat for @snarfed.org just doing things 👏🏼
So, in passing this morning after our live stream, I mentioned to @snarfed.org that it would be nice if we took embedded Notes in Article Activity Streams types and bridged them as Bluesky posts rather than just linking to articles, and he...he just went and did the thing:
AP: use `preview` field? · Issue #2091 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
AS2 has a preview field! It didn't really get used in the wild in the fediverse much, so we didn't use it, but we're starting to see conversation (and implementation!) around long form content, eg ...
github.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:53 PM
From now on, Articles bridged from the Fediverse that have Notes as previews embedded in them will show up with the Note text and the Article link on Atmosphere apps (Bluesky, Blacksky, etc.) rather than just an attached link!
❤️'s in the chat for @snarfed.org just doing things 👏🏼
❤️'s in the chat for @snarfed.org just doing things 👏🏼
We're now live! Join us at stream.place/quillmatiq.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We're now live! Join us at stream.place/quillmatiq.com
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Thanks to @anew.social for organizing this! Last year in Seattle, they hosted our social evenings, and we're grateful for them in signing up as media sponsors & helping to get the word out and fun activities like this!
Find out about leveling the playing field across open social anew.social
Find out about leveling the playing field across open social anew.social
January 23, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Thanks to @anew.social for organizing this! Last year in Seattle, they hosted our social evenings, and we're grateful for them in signing up as media sponsors & helping to get the word out and fun activities like this!
Find out about leveling the playing field across open social anew.social
Find out about leveling the playing field across open social anew.social
You already know we love bridges, but did you know we love trains just as much?🚆
We'll be taking Amtrak from Emeryville -> Seattle -> Vancouver for the #ATmosphereConf, and we'll be jamming the whole way up!
Want to join us? Details below 👇🏼
We'll be taking Amtrak from Emeryville -> Seattle -> Vancouver for the #ATmosphereConf, and we'll be jamming the whole way up!
Want to join us? Details below 👇🏼
We have lots of activities that are being organized in and around #ATmosphereConf
Ryan @snarfed.org & Anuj @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social are coming to Vancouver by train, and invite others to join their train jam for hacking on ATProto projects.
Ryan @snarfed.org & Anuj @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social are coming to Vancouver by train, and invite others to join their train jam for hacking on ATProto projects.
ATmosphereConf Activities: Train Jam
Ryan & Anuj from A New Social are taking the train to Vancouver
news.atmosphereconf.org
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
You already know we love bridges, but did you know we love trains just as much?🚆
We'll be taking Amtrak from Emeryville -> Seattle -> Vancouver for the #ATmosphereConf, and we'll be jamming the whole way up!
Want to join us? Details below 👇🏼
We'll be taking Amtrak from Emeryville -> Seattle -> Vancouver for the #ATmosphereConf, and we'll be jamming the whole way up!
Want to join us? Details below 👇🏼
Reposted by A New Social
We have lots of activities that are being organized in and around #ATmosphereConf
Ryan @snarfed.org & Anuj @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social are coming to Vancouver by train, and invite others to join their train jam for hacking on ATProto projects.
Ryan @snarfed.org & Anuj @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social are coming to Vancouver by train, and invite others to join their train jam for hacking on ATProto projects.
ATmosphereConf Activities: Train Jam
Ryan & Anuj from A New Social are taking the train to Vancouver
news.atmosphereconf.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:56 PM
We have lots of activities that are being organized in and around #ATmosphereConf
Ryan @snarfed.org & Anuj @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social are coming to Vancouver by train, and invite others to join their train jam for hacking on ATProto projects.
Ryan @snarfed.org & Anuj @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social are coming to Vancouver by train, and invite others to join their train jam for hacking on ATProto projects.
Reposted by A New Social
Great idea! Here's a @smokesignal.events page if you want to RSVP:
January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Great idea! Here's a @smokesignal.events page if you want to RSVP:
Reposted by A New Social
On Monday 1/26 @ 10am PT, @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com will be live-streaming on @stream.place 📺
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 PM
On Monday 1/26 @ 10am PT, @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com will be live-streaming on @stream.place 📺
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
On Monday 1/26 @ 10am PT, @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com will be live-streaming on @stream.place 📺
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 PM
On Monday 1/26 @ 10am PT, @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com will be live-streaming on @stream.place 📺
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
We'll talk about our recent launches, shout out some open social web projects we think are pretty cool, and then have a community Q&A.
Come with your questions! We're excited to chat with y'all 🙂
Reposted by A New Social
This post got thousands of likes on Bluesky despite being published on Mastodon
What I mean by that is not that the Mastodon post was copy/pasted to Bluesky, the post you’re seeing and can natively interact with on Bluesky is literally the original Mastodon post
The power of open protocols
What I mean by that is not that the Mastodon post was copy/pasted to Bluesky, the post you’re seeing and can natively interact with on Bluesky is literally the original Mastodon post
The power of open protocols
January 20, 2026 at 6:51 AM
This post got thousands of likes on Bluesky despite being published on Mastodon
What I mean by that is not that the Mastodon post was copy/pasted to Bluesky, the post you’re seeing and can natively interact with on Bluesky is literally the original Mastodon post
The power of open protocols
What I mean by that is not that the Mastodon post was copy/pasted to Bluesky, the post you’re seeing and can natively interact with on Bluesky is literally the original Mastodon post
The power of open protocols
For our first launch of the year, we're kicking off with more blocking features!
Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
Launch: Domain Blocklists
In November last year, we began developing additional user-facing moderation features for Bridgy Fed users. While blocking users across the bridge was always possible via DMs, we knew it would be easi...
blog.anew.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM
For our first launch of the year, we're kicking off with more blocking features!
Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
We 🫶🏼 our friends on The Forkiverse, so we've waived the one-week waiting period to bridge to Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, and the rest of the ATProto ecosystem 🌐
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/115883254793418895
@quillmatiq @brettpeary @Casey @kevin @pj
Great news that forkiverse accounts are going to have their 7-day waiting period waived for bridging. Shows what a cool little instance this is, it's reputation precedes it ✨
#fediverse […]
@quillmatiq @brettpeary @Casey @kevin @pj
Great news that forkiverse accounts are going to have their 7-day waiting period waived for bridging. Shows what a cool little instance this is, it's reputation precedes it ✨
#fediverse […]
Original post on theforkiverse.com
theforkiverse.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
We 🫶🏼 our friends on The Forkiverse, so we've waived the one-week waiting period to bridge to Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, and the rest of the ATProto ecosystem 🌐
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We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events.
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
Open Source Organizations
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events.
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
Take a look and tell us who else should be there.
go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9
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It's hard to believe, but Bridgy is 14 years old today. I launched the first version of it way back in 2012. Happy birthday, little project buddy! 🎂🎈🎉
Bridgy up and running
I’ve just released Bridgy, a little side project I’ve been working on. Got a blog? Share your blog posts on social networks? Wish comments on those shared posts also showed up on your b…
snarfed.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
It's hard to believe, but Bridgy is 14 years old today. I launched the first version of it way back in 2012. Happy birthday, little project buddy! 🎂🎈🎉
Reposted by A New Social
Today is #GivingTuesday, and also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com teaming up to build @anew.social.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Year One & Giving Tuesday
About a year ago, we began developing a plan for A New Social, a nonprofit organization focused solely on liberating users' social graphs from any single platform or protocol.
A New Social adopted Br...
blog.anew.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today is #GivingTuesday, and also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com teaming up to build @anew.social.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Today is #GivingTuesday, and also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com teaming up to build @anew.social.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Year One & Giving Tuesday
About a year ago, we began developing a plan for A New Social, a nonprofit organization focused solely on liberating users' social graphs from any single platform or protocol.
A New Social adopted Br...
blog.anew.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today is #GivingTuesday, and also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org & @quillmatiq.com teaming up to build @anew.social.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Reposted by A New Social
And the fine folks at @anew.social are doing great work to maintain Bridgy Fed and Bounce, improving interoperability between the Atmosphere and the Fediverse, and have also featured some of our grant recipients in this thread 😊
We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
And the fine folks at @anew.social are doing great work to maintain Bridgy Fed and Bounce, improving interoperability between the Atmosphere and the Fediverse, and have also featured some of our grant recipients in this thread 😊
We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
A mini follow-up to this mini-launch: bridged Bluesky/Blacksky/any ATProto users can now use all of Bridgy Fed's blocking features right from our settings page!
Check it out here: fed.brid.gy/settings
Check it out here: fed.brid.gy/settings
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A mini follow-up to this mini-launch: bridged Bluesky/Blacksky/any ATProto users can now use all of Bridgy Fed's blocking features right from our settings page!
Check it out here: fed.brid.gy/settings
Check it out here: fed.brid.gy/settings