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@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/

@gilles@campground.bonfire.cafe that's right

@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...

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.

➡️ bonfirenetworks.org/posts/crowdfunding...

@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...

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...

@sef@social.coop you must have a jacobin membership to join jacobin.social

@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 😊

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 😊

@reflex@retrogaming.social I'm sorry but we have already replied to you several times and would appreciate your patience in the meantime, for reference: github.com/bonfire-networks/...

What should digital infrastructure for open science look like, and more importantly, who should shape it?

Universities and scholarly communities are starting to explore new directions together. This includes a living lab at Warwick, governance research with Princeton HCI and experiments with the Prosocial Design Network.

We invite more scientists, research communities and universities to join: experiment and study it, co-design what comes next, and help govern the Open Science Network.

bonfirenetworks.org/science #OpenScience #science

Hey 👋
We managed to get a #postgres setup working for #lauti
codeberg.org/Klasse-Methode/...
Most needed changes are small, but maintaining two database implementations can be a burden, are there more people interested in Postgres support?

@benjaoming@social.data.coop we've replied several times to the same question both on the fediverse and on our issue tracker: github.com/bonfire-networks/...

@macfranc@poliversity.it meh
@nuke@poliversity.it @pierobosio@soc.bosio.info @enzoesco@poliverso.org @fo@libranet.de

@jarulf@mstdn.social @bookstodon@fedigroups.social LoL

We’re delighted that the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is following Bonfire’s evolution with such interest.

The EEF supports the #Erlang, #Elixir, and wider #BEAM community, which is the ecosystem behind the technology Bonfire is built with. The foundation plans to deploy Bonfire and explore how it could serve that community. We’re excited to see what they discover and to collaborate with them.

Read the update from the EEF: com.erlef.org/wg/com/2026/08...