Over the last few months, instead of adding new features to Bridgy Fed or Bounce, I’ve been focusing on cost cutting. It’s not fun, exactly. I’d rather be building new things! But we’re a non-profit, surviving on grants and individual donations from people who don’t

Over the past two years or so, we’ve managed to cut our serving costs 5x, from ~$0.15 per active user per month to ~$0.03.

For who never heard Bridgy Fed before (source: The GitHub repository)

Bridgy Fed connects different decentralized social network protocols. It currently supports the fediverse (eg Mastodon) via ActivityPub, Bluesky via the AT Protocol, and the IndieWeb via webmentions and microformats2.