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📬 Bonfire #crowdfunding backers: check your inbox!

If your pledge included a seat at our community co-design workshops, we’ve just emailed you. The email asks you to vote on a date for the first session, on community governance, led by @s0hw@hci.social

Didn’t get it? Check your spam folder first. If it’s not there, send us a DM with the email address you used for your pledge, and we’ll send it again.

If your pledge included an install party workshop, we’ll get in touch by email with another poll once those sessions are planned.

@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! 😊

@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

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/How-the-Fediverse-Found-Parts-for-Its-Platforms?utm_source=flm

@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 🔥

publicspaces.net/2026/10/16/...

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/

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz @misterdubs@coresignal.podmoodle.nohost.me @yunohost@toot.aquilenet.fr aha here: github.com/YunoHost-Apps/bon...

Very excited to officially kickstart our @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe server at Warwick and to be able to codesign it with fellow researchers!

#Bonfire #ActivityPub #OpenScience #Codesign

bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk/pu...

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.

bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk/po...

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/...

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz they've probably simply customised the APP_NAME environment variable.

@misterdubs@coresignal.podmoodle.nohost.me

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!

– 3wordchant

#Coops #Libresoftware

@deadsuperhero@fedizen.net that only imports your posts or other supported objects:

> You can now bring your posts (and optionally their replies) with you when moving to Bonfire from another instance. Imported posts keep their original dates and links, and are added to your timeline in the right order, so your history looks complete. Replies and threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. This works by automatically "boosting" your old posts (but without flooding people's feeds or notifications with old activities).

Source: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

From our series on the public funding of open source, Jeffrey A. McGuire explains how the Fediverse was built.

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/How-the-Fediverse-Found-Parts-for-Its-Platforms?utm_source=blm

@nlnet @NGIZero @cwebber @spritely @Bonfire
#DigitalAutonomy #ActivityPub #Fediverse #OpenSource #community #FOSS

Dear Fedi friends,

My heart is full after spending two inspiring days in Luxembourg at #OSCL26.

I'd love to thank @paolo for giving me and @Gina the fantastic opportunity to co-organize the "decentralized technologies for digital sovereignty" track. It was an incredible experience.

And HUGE thanks to all our phenomenal speakers: @laurenshof
@YRAR
@samvie
@ivan of @Bonfire
@manfredzielinski @jonassmith @imacrea
plus Fabrice, Bartosz, Penar and Rafael.

This community is amazing ❤️

powerful. shout out @bonfire@indieweb.social

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/post/3mwm2lzpkek2z

How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/How-the-Fediverse-Found-Parts-for-Its-Platforms

A really nice article from Linux Magazine, which includes a lot of interview material with me about the history of the fediverse, where I think things are going, etc. Lots of other lovely people interviewed also

Linux Magazine talked to us about how and why we build Bonfire.

What we want next is "not a bigger Bonfire, but a network of cooperatives covering the whole supply chain of a community's digital space", who "do it together" rather than leave you to "do it yourself".

Because "federation, we don't see it as just a technical thing. We see it as a social, economic, and political tool as well."

Link: Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms

Also happy to spread the love for @coopcloud@social.coop, @coquest@social.coop, @SocialCoop@social.coop and more, check out the links at the end of the article! Thanks to @horncologne@fosstodon.org for a lovely conversation, and @linuxmagazine@fosstodon.org for publishing it, in a piece that also features the great @cwebber@social.coop and @tsyesika@mastodon.nu from @spritely@social.coop.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #opensource #freesoftware #OpenCooperativeEcosystem #OpenScienceNetwork