Sill’s new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks

Want to keep up with what everyone’s talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, but don’t have time to constantly scroll through their respective apps?

The service is similar to the older startup Nuzzel, which was ultimately acquired by Twitter as part of its deal for Scroll in 2021, then integrated into Twitter’s app. Popular with news junkies, Nuzzel helped users keep track of what everyone on Twitter was talking about, reading, and resharing that day. The feature lives on inside of Elon Musk’s X app as “Top Articles,” which is available to X’s Premium subscribers.

Sill is now offering the same sort of functionality, but for the Twitter/X alternatives that are embracing open protocols, like Mastodon and Bluesky. Part of the open social web, the two social platforms promote the idea of decentralized social media as a counterbalance to apps run by centralized authorities like X and Meta. However, Mastodon and Bluesky rely on different protocols and infrastructure. Mastodon is part of the fediverse, powered by ActivityPub, while Bluesky is building its own AT Protocol.

The service’s launch comes at the same time as X appears to be deprioritizing links within its own app, per a post from X owner Elon Musk. He suggested that links should be added to replies instead, in response to a complaint about the change by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham.

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