You don't pick an email provider by asking everyone you know to use the same one. Social media should offer that kind of choice too. Your friendships shouldn't belong to a single company.
Mastodon and other services in the Fediverse use ActivityPub, a shared way to exchange posts, follows and replies. TouchGrass speaks it too. You can follow someone on Mastodon and have a conversation without both moving to the same website.
Bluesky uses a different open protocol, ATProto, and its wider network is called the Atmosphere. TouchGrass connects to that network as well. Link your Bluesky account to bring those conversations into the way you use TouchGrass.
We want social media built around friends, with no addictive feed or public popularity contest. Someone else may prefer another app's community or approach. Open standards let us make a clear choice about TouchGrass while keeping the door open to those people.
