@Bonfire bikemap :)
@laurenshof@indieweb.social credits to the amazing @coopcloud@social.coop crew 😊
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@Bonfire This doesn't sound like something I'd be able to set up myself though? This is an exciting idea but there's no way I could do that. How much of the tools are available for use for people with the technical chops? Is the code all there that did this or is a lot of it owned by Jacobin?
@crazyeddie@mastodon.social everthing is free and open source (AGPL) and available for others to use and to participate in co-designing what comes next: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
Bonfire 1.0.7 is out 🔥
It includes a new default UI, reworked discussions, faster and more flexible feeds, better mobile navigation, and fixes across federation, accessibility, publishing and admin tools.
We’re also sharing our bikemap for what’s next: public federated groups, better notifications and easier-to-find settings.
Want to help shape federated groups? We’re currently looking for pilot communities, get in touch!
Read the post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/...
Discussion: bonfire.cafe/...
@Bonfire Putting publications into a bonfire evokes a scary picture in this day and age.
@solrize@mathstodon.xyz lol not lol 🤕
Is @Bonfire iets waar @SURF aan werkt? Ik kan niet goed inschatten of dit iets is voor kleinschalige samenwerking tussen onderzoekers of toch veel groter. Deze https://openscience.network/ is misschien interessant in Nederland? Weten jullie meer? Is erbij @utrechtuniversity iemand mee bezig?
@EsGroot@akademienl.social the open science network is well suited for both small research teams and universities. We're now looking for pilot organisations to deploy and co-design together based on researchers feedback!
@Bonfire Interesting direction. The idea of turning a publication into a community feels especially relevant for independent creators and photographers.
Looking forward to seeing how this develops.
@omi_geek@mstdn.jp Thanks! You can already see this approach in action with Jacobin de, which is using Bonfire to turn its publication into a community. We share more about the work we did together in this case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
Turn your #Ghost publication into a thriving community with Bonfire.
Automatically import all your Ghost articles into dedicated Bonfire groups and topics while preserving the membership tiers you’ve already set up. Readers can sign in to your Bonfire instance with their Ghost account, then discuss, react to, and connect around your work all in one place.
It’s the natural next step for publications: moving beyond growing an audience to nurturing a community.
Read more about our Ghost integration bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe This is great, for example for my band (would be cool to have this in some music platform). By default, I assume organisation members are private, right?
@gilles@campground.bonfire.cafe that's right
RE: https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M11S3WJA6HPZY6V8Z0JTTQ50
@Bonfire I don’t know if this is normal or a bug, but on my Mastodon account, whether using my client or the web interface, the screenshot lacks alt text, even though I can see it when I visit the direct URL https://bonfire.cafe/post/01M11S3WJA6HPZY6V8Z0JTTQ50.
@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net thanks for the report, it's likely a bug with federating alt texts with mastodon, we will look into it !
Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles.
You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you.
Each team member signs in with their usual Bonfire account, with no insecure sharing of passwords, and together they can post as the organisation, access its feeds and private messages, manage its settings, and add or remove other members.
It’s similar to managing a Facebook Page, but built for the #fediverse: one shared public identity, securely managed by multiple people.
A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱
Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.
It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.
But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.
Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊
Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
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Prints for our crowdfunding backers are finally on their way 💛
Open-edition posters and handmade silkscreens are shipping, with workshops coming next.
Thank you for your patience and for making this possible.
We’ve also opened our special merchandising page with a few signed, numbered silkscreens by Rocco Lombardi, hand-printed with BeeInk. Each purchase supports Bonfire, the artist, and community-governed digital spaces.
Just learned of @Bonfire's “Telling” feature!
https://bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
How come no one's talking about this? You can embed Fediverse replies even on static blogs!
@ErikUden@mastodon.de thanks for sharing this 💜
we'd also love to see more peopel experiment with it...
it is currently used in production by jacobin.de ( powered by #ghost ) and of course on our blog ( powered by #11ty ) eg bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
@Bonfire Trying the manual follow flow gets me this
the instance is local-only so you cannot follow from remote servers. jacobin is still in the phase of onboarding the community, defining processes and governance and shaping the community itself - they want to open to the fediverse at some point though...
@Bonfire I get an ”Account not found” error for that account (Mona for iOS) 🤔
@sef@social.coop you must have a jacobin membership to join jacobin.social
Alle #Jacobin Leser:innen finden mich nun auch auf dem sozialen Netzwerk des Magazins!
https://jacobin.social/@ErikUden
Kommt gerne auch her — nicht lange ist es hin, dann wird es aber dem Fediverse geöffnet sein!
@ErikUden@mastodon.de great news!
here we share more about the behind the scene of working with #jacobin to codesign and build jacobin.social: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
eager to hear your feedback and thoughts about it 😊
Oproep: kunnen jullie voorbeelden met me delen van interessante vormgeving op servers op #ActivityPub? Wat zijn de mogelijkheden om een NRC-server een beetje mooi te maken? Wat kan wel en wat kan niet? #NRCServer
jacobin.social is a fully customized #Bonfire #ActivityPub server we built with Jacobin.de. It reflects Jacobin’s visual identity and lets readers interact with articles and authors according to their membership tier and much more...
Jacobin explains the thinking behind the project here:
jacobin.de/social/
And here’s our case study, which may be useful for your research:
bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
happy to share more about it 😊
