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@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 😊
@Bonfire I am sorry to keep asking, but I am wondering where you settled on an AI policy for contributors.
Based on this it looks like you've gone all in: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/blob/main/AGENTS.md
Am I misunderstanding?
@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.
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?
@Bonfire no response on my question about AI usage. Can you help me out here? A partial answer is also honest enough... "yes, we use AI but we are preparing a policy and a full update"?
Right now it's just awkward crickets.
@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/...
@bookstodon
Bonfire http://bonfirenetworks.org/ sounds like it could be great for the book community, though the name itself makes me a little nervous in this context. 🔥
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...
LAUTI will also benefit from the new server as hosting our CI runner will then be free and we probably can even add more capacity to it. So we would be thankful if you are able to contribute a small amount. 🤝
@ivan I joined the bonfire matrix room, but don't want to 'spam' it with things related to only one of the flavours.
I think it would make sense to have a more specialized room to discuss things related to openscience.network
What do you think?
@UlrikeHahn @Bonfire @jorgeluis @pierre @unif @fresseng @AvSchroeder
@lavaeolus @Bonfire @AvSchroeder @UlrikeHahn @jorgeluis @unif @pierre
No, not sure of that. My guess is that it would work seamlessly... but better ask @ivan
@fresseng@universites.social @lavaeolus@fedihum.org @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @Bonfire @jorgeluis@mastodon.pub.solar @pierre@universites.social @unif@universites.social @AvSchroeder@fedihum.org
we explain it in our FAQ openscience.network/faqs/
The flow is : when a publication is archived and gets a DOI, you can add co-authors to the metadata. If the instance has ORCID member API access, each co-author gets an ORCID notification to claim the work and link it to their ORCID record. They don’t need to already have an account on that Bonfire or Open Science instance, and depending on their ORCID settings, they may also get an email alert from ORCID. would love to get back to that work <3
@Bonfire hey there! A lot of old blog posts keep being posted to this fedi account. Is that on purpose?
@georges@dice.camp hi sorry for the noise, yes it's to enable federated comments underneath them (see our latest blog post), we did back-date the posts but unfortunately it seems Mastodon ignores that
@Bonfire A request of you please? When you link your blog posts here, it's great. I just wish I had a clue what they are about. I don't get the full link, and the card that gets displayed is always the same generic info card about the bonfire site. Give me a clue about what the post is so I can determine if I want to read it.
@pedersen@c.im that was a bug, thanks for notifying us!
@Bonfire
I would have liked to participate, as I am still unclear about what exactly Bonfire provides, and whether it'd be suitable for two potential communities I want to create. Sadly the registration is already closed 😢.
Is there anywhere else I can ask questions and get advice?
As a side note, I was surprised (and disappointed) to see that your chosen partner for conducting the interviews, uses Google Forms, rather than a privacy respecting alternative such as #Framaforms or #LiberaForms. They are a much better fit for a project that targets an audience that wants to get away from #bigtech
@aerion@nerdculture.de Thanks for your interest 😊 that post was from a couple years ago though (our blog is now automatically federating, we backdated old posts but looks like Mastodon ignores that).
@AvSchroeder @lavaeolus @UlrikeHahn @Bonfire
They do not want to, and I understand why : it is to keep it truly federated.
Furthermore, running such an instance has costs. My feeling is that it is the responsibility of the scientific community to host OSN servers.
We manage to do it for emails (SMTP protocol) : why not for OSN (ActivityPub protocol) ?
@fresseng@universites.social correct, and it's also responsibility of the scientific community to engage and codesign with us the exact features, user experience and goverance models that are needed for open science to thrive beyond capitalistic and closed platforms.
The goal of the Open Science Network has always been to give the scientific community a real opportunity to shape and govern not only its own servers, but also the software roadmap, rather than reproducing a top-down model in which yet another company builds features for others to adopt without meaningful participation :)
@AvSchroeder@fedihum.org @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @lavaeolus@fedihum.org @pierre@universites.social @unif@universites.social @jorgeluis@mastodon.pub.solar
@thenexusofprivacy @Bonfire When you say groups are currently local-only, does that mean everyone who wants to be a part of multiple groups/communities will have to create multiple accts?
@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net @thenexusofprivacy@gotosocial.thenexus.today Yes for now that's the biggest gap, and it's our biggest priority to sort out. Wiring groups up between Bonfire instances would be easy, but our goal is for groups to work across the whole open social web, where someone on Mastodon or any other fediverse app can join and take part. That's why we're contributing our implementation experience to the W3C groups task force, working towards a common standard. Anyone into fediverse protocols and software is invited to come join the task force: this only works if we design it together, in the open.
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