Offer a different, more sustainable way of keeping it alive, and we'll implement it.

Murmel — Your morning read, already waiting. The links worth reading, chosen by the people you trust on Bluesky and Mastodon.

If you are a journalist, academic, or just an "information junkie" suffering from digital burnout, Murmel is designed for you. You can stay fully informed without the 4-hour daily scroll through a magazine-style web interface or a simple daily email digest.

Try today: murmel.social

Yes, we are all Europeans living and working in Europe, and loving it (and its mountains).

Feel free to come try Murmel and tell us how to improve it. It's free for the next 30+ days, until we bring back Stripe processing, and if you need more time testing, you can always let us know.

Murmel — Your morning read, already waiting. The links worth reading, chosen by the people you trust on Bluesky and Mastodon.

Murmel serves as an “antidote” by providing a high-signal filter that preserves the integrity of the original work and restores the direct connection between the creator and the audience.

murmel.social

Modern AI platforms often scrape content without consent and provide summaries that bury or omit credits to the original site. This “extortive slop mall” model effectively erases the writer's authority.

How can we make Murmel be that thing?

What do we do? Do we add more engagement hooks, so that people come back more often, or do we stay true to our core values?

The funniest thing we’ve recently heard about the new Murmel - it won’t pass Google’s “Toothbrush test,” because you only get to use it once a day. People read their morning daily digest, and forget about social media until the following day. 🙈

One more reason why human curation is more important than ever. With apps like ours and @sill.social, you can clearly get the context behind a link.

Wait so Google is just... editing your headlines now? A copy desk nobody hired and nobody can fire. 90% search market share deciding what your article says before anyone reads it. How is that not editorial liability

If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.

Murmel — Your morning read, already waiting. The links worth reading, chosen by the people you trust on Bluesky and Mastodon.

Ich bin auf der Suche nach deutschsprachigen Journalist:innen, denen es schwerfällt, mit dezentralen sozialen Medien Schritt zu halten.

Kenne ich hier jemanden, der oder die Lust hätte, unsere App @murmel.social zu testen?

murmel.social

Open Social Awards | New_ Public The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the breakthrough products of developers building on open protocols such as ATProtocol and ActivityPub.

📢 Announcing the Open Social Awards ✨

Alongside PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, we aim to honor the work of independent builders around the world, creating innovative products for the open web!

More details below…

newpublic.org/OSA

Murmel — Your morning read, already waiting. The links worth reading, chosen by the people you trust on Bluesky and Mastodon.

Try Murmel for 30 days and see if it helps you get away from doomscrolling on Bluesky. One daily email with all the important news from your network is all you will get from us: murmel.social

Cosign! Murmel is great, and I hope Preslav and team keep on building it.

Why I'm Still Building Murmel On competing without feature wars. When identity, trust, and story matter more than what's on your roadmap.

I cannot recall how many times I've been asked about @murmel.social, why I still keep believing in it, especially now that @sill.social exists, and everyone is using it. The reality is, the two products may look similar, but they are not competitors:
preslav.me/2026/03/25/m...

V2.0 connects Bluesky and Mastodon simultaneously — one digest, both networks, everything your social graph is actually talking about.

Read more of what matters. Skip everything else.

Every morning, a calm digest lands in your inbox.

No pull-to-refresh. No unread count. No going back.

Read it with your coffee. Close it. Done.

A screenshot of a social media post from Mastodon, shared by Rob Pike and others. The post is by Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets), dated March 22, 18:08. The post shares an article from theconversation.com titled, "A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth." The article’s subheader warns that one million new satellites would increase atmospheric pollution, falling debris risk, and result in more satellites being visible than stars. In the post's text, Prof. Lawler writes: "The third article in this (horrible) series of articles I've co-authored is now out. A million satellites of the size required for 'AI data centers' would mean that everyone in the world would have more visible satellites than stars for most of the night and most of the year. But don't worry, we'll be in Kessler Syndrome WAY before we get to a million satellites!" The post has 242 likes and 319 reposts.

Here's how it works:

The people you follow do the curation. When multiple people share the same link, it rises. Not because an algorithm pushed it — because the people you chose to follow found it worth sharing.

Murmel doesn't ask you to scroll. It asks you to read — once, at a time you choose, then close the tab.

The inbox is the last place online where you are still in control.

"The timeline was never designed to inform you. It was designed to keep you." Murmel doesn't ask you to scroll. It asks you to read — once, at a time you choose, then close the tab. The inbox is the last place online where you are still in control.

The timeline was never designed to inform you.

It was designed to keep you.

Murmel started as a Twitter-exclusive, trying to fill the gap Nuzzel left when it shut down in 2021.

In 2023, we bet on the open social web instead. We were early. We were slow. We were right.

V2.0 is our full commitment to that bet.

Murmel — Your morning read, already waiting. The links worth reading, chosen by the people you trust on Bluesky and Mastodon.

Hello, Bluesky 👋 — time for an #introduction

We are the small team behind Murmel — a service that collects the links worth reading, chosen by the people you trust on Bluesky and Mastodon. Gathered overnight, in your inbox by morning. Made with ♥ in Europe!

We just launched V2.0: murmel.social