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@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.
Science Communication in the Fediverse – Mastodon and Open Science Network https://winoda.de/en/2026/08/12/science-communication-in-the-fediverse-mastodon-and-open-science-network/ A while back, I was once again browsing my personal corner of the internet after work. These days, this mainly involves two Mastodon accounts—an anonymous private one and an “official” […] #WiNoDaKnowledgeLabJournalen #Bonfire #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenScience #OpenScienceNetwork
You’ll be happy to know that Pelago is pissing off exactly the people it should right now: serial harassers and block evaders.
@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...
@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
There is a matrix room now: https://matrix.to/#/#osn:matrix.org
We (@AvSchroeder & I) had a lovely chat with @jorgeluis about https://openscience.network
It's a flavor of @Bonfire, aiming to meet the needs of researchers and #OpenScience - in early stages of development.
I think it's a very worthwhile project (for a potential 2nd account more focused on academia).
Time permitting, I may even contribute - that's the great thing: We can shape it the way we want!
If that sounds good, follow #OpenScienceNetwork
@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).
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe These are great news! I do not know which feature I'm more excited with, but after having using Groups for a while, I can say that they are impressively useful and cool.
Keep making #bonfire great(er)!
I created a collection with the people interested in the Open Sciences Network by @Bonfire I saw in today's threads, which I could add.
Ping me if you wish to be added.
The collection : https://universites.social/collections/116998263535143761
Edit : for those who do not want or cannot be in the collection, simply join the community by using and following the hashtag #OpenScienceNetwork
@AvSchroeder @Bonfire @UlrikeHahn @lavaeolus @jorgeluis @pierre @unif
@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.
Would be interesting to, at some point, see these ideas tangibly connected and allow users to jump between the two 🤔
Definitely! Would be great to have you all involved in these discussions: github.com/swicg/groups/issu...
A lot of overlap of thinking between @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy's Acorn and what @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe is doing with communities 👀
Why Community Matters: Groups ...
A lot of overlap of thinking between @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy's Acorn and what @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe is doing with communities 👀
Why Community Matters: Groups ...
@quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy
Yeah we love what Blacksky folks are doing ✊ We mentioned that and some of the differences with the likes of Bluesky in our eyes on this page: bonfirenetworks.org/about/
Also here's a blog post from today with what we've been building with communities over last few months: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
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