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Lovely work from @Bonfire for jacobin.de
Really nice case write up too https://bonfirenetworks.org/case-studies/jacobin/
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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
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Congratulations @Bonfire team! You did it, after the crowd funding and working together with these three so inspiring projects. And there you are, with a nice write up of the various experiences, promising all development is fed back into the commons. Now is the time to build more Connected Community Spaces, or archipielagos, in any case spaces where the community owns their socials, where groups are made easy, governance tooling is in place, events and notifications... Thank you for the hard work.
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There is too much tech/features talk and too little UI/UX or just “beauty” talk in the Fediverse.
Let’s please take some time to appreciate how gorgeous @Bonfire’s interface and the design choices are.
The article sharing the Jacobin case study is so cool!
#UI #UX #beauty #Fediverse #interface #design #graphicDesign
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Just read @Bonfire 's Case study about building a Ghost <-> Bonfire integration for Jacobin
https://bonfirenetworks.org/case-studies/jacobin/
This is an amazing replacement for Patreon because it gives you a great publishing + Membership tool (Ghost) and integrates it with a great community tool (Bonfire)
Today is announcement day 🔥
Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.
A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.
Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe
Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/
Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub
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Yes! "Island networks" are an important step in that direction. @oli has done a lot of work on this, The Website League is a good real-world, and @Bonfire has just introduced archipelago mode.
(Credit where credit is due: @noracodes introduced the archipelago framing back in 2023 The Fediverse is Already Dead, which should be mandatory reading for everybody here.)
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Some point this year I tried to test the services queerit.org is offering including a Fediverse instance running on bonfire. This seems to be very buggy. My account there is @livho@social.queerit.org . When I log in into that account I can see most of my notifications I see here on my main account @livho . Basically all notifications with mentions of @livho regardless of the server. And the account mirrors parts of my main account as if it was sent by that account (Very visible from the public profile: https://social.queerit.org/@livho ). It also creates some other glitches where the account appears in the notifications of other people.
To me this sounds like a very bad bug that allows anyone to basically clone a profile of someone else and start interacting with followers of that profile.
@livho@social.queerit.org we fixed quite a lot of bugs in recent versions - 1.0.5 is much more stable nowadays
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Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge.
Utenti del fediverso. Ho un quesito: c’è un weblate/crowdin dove tradurre il codice di @Bonfire ?
Mi piacerebbe moltissimo tradurlo il lmo.
Fatemi sapere grazie 🙏🏻
@emanuelecariati@varese.social non sono sicuro di averti aggiunto correttamente...mi confermi appena puoi?
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@Bonfire The network grows and we've tripled the number of federating services in the past 12 months.
Opt-in or selective federation is the only way forward for many communities. No-one can individually vet and monitor 58,000 domains.
Kudos to @Bonfire for getting this stable and ready for production!
Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥
Archipelago mode means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to federate *only* with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers. Communities can link up into an "archipelago" of like-minded "islands" with shared rules, ideal for tight-knit groups, neighbourhoods, assemblies, co-ops, or orgs that want to connect with each other but not necessarily the whole internet.
We also added new admin throughput controls as our latest take on "calm empowerment": simple defaults first, curated overrides next, and full advanced control behind an explicit gesture. In practice, you can keep a busy instance responsive by picking a speed preset, prioritising certain kinds of activity, or fine-tuning each background task queue, no config files or restarts needed.
Also new in 1.0.5:
- Faster search, now powered by Sonic
- Broadcast announcements to everyone on your instance
- Embeddable widgets: put your pinned posts on any website
- PGP-encrypted system emails
- Plus lots of improvements and fixes (federation, polls, media, accessibility, mobile)
Blog post and changelog: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
@emanuelecariati@varese.social You're welcome to join localisation efforts at app.transifex.com/bonfire/bo... thanks!
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Welcome to CIM's #bonfire instance! We are currently using the #openscience openscience.network/ flavour, which has some features that are relevant to #academics. Feel free to test it and share your thoughts here!
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe not related to this, but I don't think I ever got an email for where to sign up for an install party as a part of the Indiegogo campaign. What are the deets for that?
@unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world ah we sent some surveys out a while ago to gather peoples preferences, timezones, etc. We still need to start actually scheduling them but did you receive that?
🔥 The Bonfire Social 1.0.5 release candidate is out!
This one brings archipelago mode (opt-in, allow-list federation for tightly-knit communities and networks), a more lightweight search backend (see changelog for migration steps), broadcasting announcements, another embeddable widget, PGP-encrypted emails, and many UX improvements and fixes.
If you're running an instance and want to give it a go, please let us know if you run into any issues.
Full changelog: docs.bonfirenetworks.org/cha...
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Facciamo HTML Day in Italia!
❇️ L’8 agosto sarà HTML Day! ❇️
In quei giorni io sarò in Italia, specificamente a Sanremo, dove dubito ci siano nerd del Web quanto me.
Dunque cerco amanti di HTML che siano interessatз a partecipare e/o co-organizzare un piccolo incontro carino anche da noi, per celebrare il linguaggio ipertestuale più bello del mondo.
La mia idea è di scegliere una città del nord (purtroppo non riesco a muovermi più lontano), trovare un luogo che ci ospiti e fare una festicciola, magari con qualche piccola demo, presentazione o condivisione di skill. 🪩
🪁 Se ci state, rispondete a questo post, scrivetemi un’email o contattatemi su Signal.
📣 Condividete questo messaggio ovunqueeee!
⚠️ AGGIORNAMENTO: purtroppo non sono riuscito a organizzare nulla, ma venite a @scambi il 27 agosto, faremo un lab lì con @jockbaia e amichettз ❤️
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe would it be possible to have federation deletion jobs that don't find the thing to delete not be considered a failed job? I seem to get an awful lot of them (enough to drop federation job success rates down to ~60% sometimes) which makes it hard to spot actual problems when they do happen. Especially because (it appears?) some servers keep on sending the deletion requests, meaning that it's showing errors for things that have already been successfully deleted.
@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu yeah good idea, the reason there's so many is that mastodon sends Delete activities far and wide to try and ensure no deleted posts linger on other servers, we've tried optimising that in the past with github.com/bonfire-networks/... but we have an open issue to tackle it better: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
ok! i think @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe has resolved the federation issues in 1.0.5-beta.1!
@christopher@gay.amsterdam yay 😊 thanks for your help debugging them!
@fresseng @A_J_Millar @Bonfire
It needs to be one of the registered users of openscience.net such as
@brembs
Or
@UlrikeHahn
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@olibrendel@scicomm.xyz fyi the sandbox instance is only meant for testing how it looks like, it's not intended to be a fully working / federated instance as we do not aim for running flagship instances (decentralisation ftw). That said, we will send you an invite soon
@fresseng@universites.social @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @brembs@mastodon.social @A_J_Millar@fediscience.org
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@A_J_Millar @olibrendel Yes ! Well Open Science Network is based on ActivityPub and offers many useful features for scientists and their institutions that Mastodon does not provide, integrating closed discussions and circles. It can be used to build scientific discourse around manuscripts. One good way to get info is to check their blog : https://openscience.network/blog/. Another one is to ask them directly : @Bonfire
