The rules we publish under

Short, and all of them enforced by the software rather than merely stated here.

A person approves every publisher

Not a score and not an algorithm. Somebody reads your application, usually within one to two days. Until they do, your feed is read and nothing is posted.

We post what your feed publishes, from the moment you are approved

Never your back catalogue. The first read of a new feed records what is already there and posts none of it, so adding a feed cannot flood anybody's timeline.

Your posts link to your own domain

A feed is locked to the domain its articles were on when we first read it. An article pointing somewhere else is held for you to look at rather than posted — including if you post it by hand. This is the one rule that protects everybody else on the service from an account that changes hands.

There are limits, and they start low

A new publisher posts at a fraction of the normal rate until an administrator has looked at them, and every account has an hourly and a daily cap. Reaching one is not an error: posting simply continues afterwards, and nothing is lost.

Mastodon is somebody else's service

Reach beyond Bluesky comes from Bridgy Fed, which we do not run and cannot promise for. Your dashboard shows what we have actually confirmed rather than what we asked for.

Your account is yours

It lives on a server in the EU and you can move it to another host and keep your followers. You authorised us at your own server, and you can withdraw that there, without asking us.

We can stop posting for you

If a feed is used for something other than the publication it was approved as, an administrator can suspend the account. You will be told why.

It is free, and it is offered as it stands

It is a small service run by a small team: it can be down, your server can rate-limit us, and a feed can break. We will tell you when publishing stops; we cannot promise it never will.