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Definitely! Would be great to have you all involved in these discussions: github.com/swicg/groups/issu...

@quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy

A lot of overlap of thinking between @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy's Acorn and what @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe is doing with communities 👀

Why Community Matters: Groups ...

@quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy

Yeah we love what Blacksky folks are doing ✊ We mentioned that and some of the differences with the likes of Bluesky in our eyes on this page: bonfirenetworks.org/about/

Also here's a blog post from today with what we've been building with communities over last few months: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

RE: https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01KYHYXMS1NA4WDW0V0TH5K3W3

Everyone is sleeping on Bonfire.

They are pioneering so many amazing features and products, it's very appreciated and needed in the fediverse and I love to see the continued progress they are making.

Check them out: https://bonfirenetworks.org

We ❤️ #Bonfire

Lovely work from @Bonfire for jacobin.de

Really nice case write up too https://bonfirenetworks.org/case-studies/jacobin/

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.

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

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)

https://bonfirenetworks.org/case-studies/jacobin/

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

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.)

@DePemig @benpate @laurenshof

@livho@social.queerit.org we fixed quite a lot of bugs in recent versions - 1.0.5 is much more stable nowadays

Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge.

https://www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating/

@emanuelecariati@varese.social non sono sicuro di averti aggiunto correttamente...mi confermi appena puoi?

@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!

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!

@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...