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We're running out of words for how shitty things are getting:

• "enshittification": quality degrades over time
• mask-off?: turns out they were fascists (or sympathisers) all along, and they've stopped pretending
• enclosure?: thought you were safe with an open-source alternative? Many are on the same late-stage-capitalism hamster wheel. Bitwarden is now private-equity owned and has scrubbed "always free" from its site. At least it can still be forked... fastcompany.com/91542655/bit...

@_elena@mastodon.social

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.

We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.

Built around open Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) specifications, this work will help platforms connect to shared services instead of each having to build and operate the same capabilities alone.

Our aim is to make these capabilities open, interoperable, and available for any federated server to adopt.

A big thank you to @Mastodon@mastodon.social team for involving us in this work. We’re looking forward to building together and sharing what we learn along the way.

Read the full post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bu...

#ActivityPub #FASP

@urlyman@mastodon.social Completely agree with your larger point though! We've got a long way to go. As you can see from our hosting page we'd love to see more of an ecosystem around hosting of FOSS, both with better UI and simpler onboarding (i.e. a step by step form that gets you from domain name to deployed app, as simple as signing up to SaaS but with autonomous infrastructure) and more cooperative economic models.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

@urlyman@mastodon.social Please see my other reply. We'll try to make our website clearer, but in the meantime the friendly entry points are the co-ops who can do it for you if you're not technical, and while they have websites it's really about getting in touch with them rather than reading any documentation:

• coquest.coop/en
• autonomic.zone
• soulhub-it.de
• local-it.org

@coopcloud@social.coop

@urlyman@mastodon.social

It's probably just bad design on our part, on the hosting page underneath CoopCloud there's a "Co-ops offering managed hosting" link, which lists a few organisations who can host an instance for you, and another link for @coquest@social.coop who do the same.

We understand it is confusing but @coopcloud@social.coop is a federation of co-ops (+ a commons of FOSS app recipes + tools to make hosting them easier) rather than a hosting service itself. CoopCloud is currently working on a new website to make it clearer on that side as well.

In solidarity with #AutisticiInventati.

Please join us in signing the open letter and send it to your representatives: inventati.org/campaign/open_...

A/I's mission has always been clear, and for more than twenty years it has inspired generations of hackers and activists in Italy and around the world: "Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri." Sharing knowledge without establishing power.

That is what the US is attacking, and that is what is at stake today.

The premise of these sanctions, that whoever provides communications infrastructure answers for whatever anyone does with it, would criminalise and shut down most Big Tech platforms tomorrow if applied equally.

Instead it is aimed at grassroots services who refuse to surveil their users.

We condemn these sanctions, and we stand firmly with solidarity tech like A/I. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism.

inventati.org/campaign

@cavallette@mastodon.bida.im

@laurenshof@indieweb.social credits to the amazing @coopcloud@social.coop crew 😊

We’re gathering around a fire 🔥

Around the Bonfire is our new newsletter: a digest of releases, community stories, collaborations, and everything else taking shape around Bonfire.

We’ll send it when there’s a new release, but never more than once a month. You can unsubscribe whenever you like.

The first edition is coming soon. Join us:

bonfirenetworks.org/subscribe

@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/...

@solrize@mathstodon.xyz lol not lol 🤕

@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!

@SURF@social.edu.nl @utrechtuniversity@akademienl.social

@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...