Discussion

As we approach the release of Bonfire 1.0, this isn’t your typical launch announcement. Instead, it’s a moment to reflect on how we’ve built Bonfire, a roadmap of values, methods, and intentions – and an invitation to define what comes next.

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship...

📣 Read our latest blog post: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/

Next stop: Brussels! 🌍

The Complex Anarchism Symposium will gather scientists, artists, activists & dreamers for a 5-day deep dive on organizing without hierarchy and embracing complexity.

A Bonfire instance will serve as digital commons — a self-organized space for discussion, coordination, proposals & reflection.

Excited for this collective experiment and to see what emerges. 🌱

🔗 Join remotely or in Brussels (May 19–23): https://clea.research.vub.be/complex-anarchism-symposium-19-23-may-2025-in-brussels

💸 Support the event: https://www.gofundme.com/f/anarchism-and-complexity-science-community-kickstart

@edumerco@social.coop @flancian@social.coop notes will likely be available 😊

📣 Kicking off a week of exciting news from Bonfire by bridging online and offline worlds:

✊️ Join us May 9th at Làbas - a self-managed social municipality in Bologna, Italy where we're facilitating a collaborative Bonfire workshop with #municipiozero and scift.
Together, we'll install a Bonfire instance and collectively configure extensions, community guidelines, and settings tailored to their specific needs 💅
municipiozero.it/events/bonf...

Stay tuned for more announcements 🔥

Hello burning world!

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Oh yeah that's a good point, we recently added the option to filter feeds (including notifications) by circles, so we'd just need to add a way to also exclude circles.

@8petros

@yala

At the moment in Bonfire you can see details of events (that were created in Mobilizon and the like) and share or reply to them. RSVPing or creating events is something we'd like to build an extension for at some point...

@liaizon @Discourse @wendy @rra @festal

Thanks @strypey, this looks very interesting! Good to see another FOSS project in Elixir as well 😄

@ah @ira @mayel

@julian @encyclia congrats for the launch!🔥 💥 ✌️

@fresseng @devSJR @ORCID_Org @OpenAlex

btw we are in touch with @kfitz and she joined a few times the open science network meetings... we really hope to join forces more as we move forward (also in terms of building resilient and better governed digital spaces)!

@razortide we don't have any ETA yet, all the 1.0 features are in place (actually much more than the ones we originally aimed for) and we're now dealing with feed logic refactoring, framework optimisations and ensuring it federates properly....we aim to push a release candidate in the next months and evaluate from there.

@razortide yes :)

@devSJR we will <3

@devSJR @danieldekay @JorisMeys hey there! Yeah we are still rolling 😊 mostly heads down on finishing the 1.0 release hence we are not communicating much new experimentations lately. But we aim to put the testing server online again in 2-3 weeks with *lots* of improvements.
Ofc manpower has always been a huge limit as well as finances, but we will get there ✌️… ha! the joy of floss

An excerpt from the intro to the Pirate Care book, focusing on the criminalization of solidarity and the militant figure of the pirate carer:

https://www.e-flux.com/notes/651619/pirate-care-against-the-criminalization-of-solidarity