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Thanks to Rocco Lombardi (https://www.behance.net/roccolombardi), who created the amazing illustrations in the homepage.

And thanks to @dajbelshaw for his constant help and precious feedback on the information architecture.
Thanks to @humanetech@mastodon.social who keeps us in the loop and all the humans, animals and bots who are happy to engage with us and are patiently waiting for our first release. ✊🔥

📣 We're happy to share w/ the fediverse our new website:
https://bonfirenetworks.org

We tried hard to communicate the vision and the motivations that nurture bonfire ecosystem. We also included new technical guides to setup and configure a new instance, to play with it or contribute to the development.
Any feedback is welcome :)

#bonfire #showcase #fediverse

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@humanetech@mastodon.social @gitea
It sounds great! We have a federated Kanban in progress since some time now, even though we are now focusing on releasing the beta version of our social networks.
But it's definitely something we feel the need to have/contribute to!
Happy to continue the discussion :)

@humanetech@mastodon.social @bernini @schmudde @bhaugen
Thanks a lot! Ill collect some materials worth to share and publish over the next week on socialhub and continue from there :)

We published a new blog post:
Notes on the first Neapolitan meeting
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/notes_on_neapoletan_meeting/
#bonfire #commons #naples #fedi

@yala @mike_hales thank you, will do!

@dansup @gracefullydegrading @grishka @activitypub

That sounds similar to what we initially built for MoodleNet, and will be happy to reimplent in an interoperable way in Bonfire.

New blog post: "Let a thousand bonfires bloom

Dopamine and attention manipulation are not inherent properties of a social network. They can be replaced by healthier behaviours and other ways of connecting humans and exploring collective intelligence..."

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/let_thousand_bonfires_bloom/

"Working towards a future where communities can assemble their own social networks like lego blocks, to cultivate safe and private spaces while being interconnected with the rest of the "fediverse" and the internet at wide on their own terms."
-- we've just updated our new bonfire homepage 😊
https://bonfirenetworks.org/

We've just published a new blog post "Why are we building yet another (federated) todo list app?"
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_coordination/
#valueflows #nlnet #project-coordination #forgefed

@mike_hales @yala

I personally think it's a great idea, and while it isn't yet on our roadmap, we have discussed implementing wiki-style functionality before. Would have to look into what protocol fedwiki uses though (probably not ActivityPub)...

- Mayel

Our first blog post is out there 😃
We shared some thoughts about what guided us during the creation of our logo...
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_identity/

@mbajur yes, we're building graphql APIs for it, though not all extensions have them yet

Happy to unveil the Bonfire iconography, along with an updated website: bonfirenetworks.org

@EmbraceTheGray@social.privacytools.io That's one aspect we're working towards, yes.

@yaaps@banana.dog oooh thanks!

@0x1C3B00DA

The Bonfire team will operate an instance of the AP server in the cloud for users of the device (and potentially others).

Whether and how anyone will set up open instances of the apps is TBD.

@0x1C3B00DA

The device is not required (though would be the easiest to get set up). You could run the apps on another device at home, like a Raspberry Pi, regular server, or even on your personal computer (though they'd of course only be usable when it is online). You could also host them in the cloud, though we want to discourage that.

@jvalleroy

TL;DR: Try out Elixir, we think you'll like it! For example Phoenix LiveView enables building reactive apps without all the JavaScript ;)

@jvalleroy

Also note that this would mean missing out on all the libraries (be they a generic AP implementation, circles functionality, a search index, a collection of UI components, etc, etc) that we are developing to make it easy to build something bespoke without having to rewrite all the common functionality from scratch...