# Murmel

> Your morning read, already waiting. The link is what makes the web unlike any communication technology. Murmel is all about the link.

Murmel is a social link aggregator for Bluesky and Mastodon. It transforms high-volume timelines into a high-signal reading experience by extracting shared URLs and ranking them by how many unique people in your network shared them - collective human curation, not algorithmic promotion.

## Who It's For

- Journalists tracking breaking stories and trends within a beat, without missing signal in the noise
- Academics following a field's most-cited articles and papers without wading through social drama
- Anyone who wants to stay informed without spending hours scrolling - one intentional read instead of endless FOMO

## How It Works

1. Gather - Connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts. Murmel quietly collects every link the people you follow share.
2. Surface - When multiple people share the same link, it rises to the top - not because an algorithm pushed it, but because the people you chose to follow found it worth sharing.
3. Arrive - A daily email digest arrives at a time you choose. Read it. Close it. Done. No pull-to-refresh, no unread counts.

## Key Features

- Cross-platform: Bluesky (AT Protocol) and Mastodon (ActivityPub) simultaneously
- Shared-By view: see the original posts alongside each link, with full author context
- Filter by time window: last 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours
- Mute domains or keywords you don't want to see
- Share your personal feed publicly
- Free for 30 days, $4.99/month afterwards

## Get Started

Sign in with Bluesky or Mastodon at murmel.social - no password required.