Yay for a new life 🎊 🎊
Welcome Alice into our clan ✊❤️
It will be fun 🔥
Discussion
Public Interest Social Networks
Bonfire is built by communities, for communities. Rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your tools, reclaim your data, and resist manipulation by shaping your own federated digital spaces.
Previously at @bonfire@indieweb.social
Yay for a new life 🎊 🎊
Welcome Alice into our clan ✊❤️
It will be fun 🔥
RE: https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M6H509XKBCCTCX60TES8TBFV
I love this: @Bonfire to shape your own connected community space. We're setting up the #DTF's space with their toolkit, now learning about the many possibilities we can shape to our own needs. Groups, members-only or public, decision making, events, ... DTF members get an account automatically so we can learn and shape this together. Thanks, Bonfire team.
@Bonfire @Bonfire_Networks I see this as a public post.
@tommi@pan.rent yeah it is public, just in a group
Testing federated groups
Hello world!
Hello world, hello Fediverse! We’re opening up our own presence here. We are the Democratic Tech Fund. We build and fund contra-infrastructure: tools, learning and mobilisation for communities that refuse to rent their digital lives from Big Tech. We’re a bottom-up organised federation. Join us.
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@Bonfire oh thats interesting as the instance just got a new follower an hour ago and my channel 4d ago.
i will however investigate asap, sorry about this and thanks for reporting
@milan@social.tchncs.de no worries, I can send you the logs of the request and response if it helps
@milan@social.tchncs.de Hi, you may want to check the Anubis settings on tube.tchncs.de as while doing some interop testing with Bonfire we noticed it blocking some Follow activities we POSTed to the inbox... BTW thanks for hosting our channel! 😊
Coda: I wonder if the Ghost interface could be combined with the @Bonfire back-end to make an AP-native newsletter/ blog experience? Might only require some glue code to plug the one into the other. Hmmm ...
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz you might be interested in the recent integration we built: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
ICYMI: Learn how the Fediverse was built in the latest article from our series on public funding of open source
@nlnet @NGIZero @cwebber @Bonfire
#DigitalAutonomy #ActivityPub #Fediverse #OpenSource #community #FOSS
ANTIFASCIST FEDIVERSE marching in solidarity with the French comrades in Paris today ❤️🔥✊
#TencoTecnoTrip #Paris #grève #greve17octobre #Fediverse #fuckGoogle #fuckGemini #noAI
Collega Annemiek Leclaire - auteur van onze langlopende toffe opvoedrubriek - geeft zojuist (ai, via LinkedIn) een scoopje weg dat ik natuurlijk hier had willen delen: @NRC start binnenkort een pilot met #Bonfire.
Dit is waarschijnlijk een van de weinige plekken waar deze open source software op basis van #ActivityPub geen toelichting behoeft.
Het idee is dat we met mensen die met elkaar en Annemiek in gesprek willen (en mogelijk experts van buiten en journalisten die over gerelateerde onderwerpen schrijven) een soort besloten online forum vormen over opvoedvragen. We hopen dat dit zowel leidt tot goede gesprekken onderling als tot 'verse' kwesties voor in de rubriek.
Meer uitleg over de plannen houden jullie nog even tegoed. Annemiek meldt het nu omdat je je aan kunt melden voor een avond bij NRC over opvoeden. Ik ben daar ook bij om mensen te 'opboarden'. @ProcoliX @Bonfire
Aanmelden voor die avond op 4 november kan met een mailtje naar: opgevoed@nrc.nl
Mentaal.nl is a portal being co-designed by thirteen patient and family non-profit organisations in Dutch mental health care. They’re piloting Bonfire as the infrastructure for their federated archipelago: a network of connected spaces built around clear, safe boundaries, where patients, caregivers, families and professionals can each find their place.
We’re excited to be part of this, and we’ll be sharing what we learn and build along the way 🔥
Mentaal.nl, een portaal van dertien ggz-organisaties, test Bonfire: open source software voor gefedereerde community’s waarbij gebruikers zelf bepalen wat ze zien en met wie ze delen, zonder big tech. Lees meer: https://publicspaces.net/2026/10/16/mentaal-nl-test-bonfire-voor-communitys-in-de-ggz/
@misterdubs
> This is a vanilla install of a Bonfire instance. However, it is hosted on Yunohost
Hey @yunohost, can you think any reason this instance is identifying itself (presumably over the NodeInfo endpoint) by its domain name, rather than the name of the actual software it's an instance of?
Very excited to officially kickstart our @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe server at Warwick and to be able to codesign it with fellow researchers!
Excited for this workshop tomorrow at @CIM@bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk
If you or anyone you know is in the area, whether in the University of Warwick's orbit or not, please come along to co-design the #OpenScienceNetwork, #Bonfire, and our #codesign methods themselves.
Hi @misterdubs, I found your fediverse service on the list here;
https://forte.eenoog.org/instances?project=coresignal
Coresignal.podmoodle.nohost.me looks like a Bonfire instance, but it's not on the Bonfire list here;
https://forte.eenoog.org/instances?project=bonfire
Is CoreSignal a fork of some kind? Or has @Bonfire maybe got some issues with its NodeInfo implementation?
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz they've probably simply customised the APP_NAME environment variable.
Coming up this Thursday: An Introduction to Public-Interest Infrastructure with #CoopCloud, this Thursday 15th October @ 19 UTC
Call link: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying
Calendar event: https://coopcloud.tech/ics/public-interest-infrastructure-2026-10-15.ics
Dramatic countdown: https://time.is/countdown/19:00_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public_Interest_Infrastructure
https://time.is/19_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public-Interest_Infrastructure
HUGE thanks to @la_rosa for the awesome flyer!
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