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Prints for our crowdfunding backers are finally on their way 💛
Open-edition posters and handmade silkscreens are shipping, with workshops coming next.
Thank you for your patience and for making this possible.
We’ve also opened our special merchandising page with a few signed, numbered silkscreens by Rocco Lombardi, hand-printed with BeeInk. Each purchase supports Bonfire, the artist, and community-governed digital spaces.
Gerade das erste Mal von #Bonfire / @Bonfire gehört. (Ich war ne Weile nicht on im Fedi), und da ist mir wieder bewusst geworden, wie viel noch von der Rollenspiel Community auf Facebook ist. Und jetzt Frage ich mich, ob es bedarf an einem #rollenspiel #literatur #indiepublishing #fantasy #scifi FB Ersatz ohne Zuccburger gibt.
Bzw ein "Geekbook"? Viele Leute bleiben ja bei FB aus Gewohnheit zu den Strukturen.
Just learned of @Bonfire's “Telling” feature!
https://bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
How come no one's talking about this? You can embed Fediverse replies even on static blogs!
@ErikUden@mastodon.de thanks for sharing this 💜
we'd also love to see more peopel experiment with it...
it is currently used in production by jacobin.de ( powered by #ghost ) and of course on our blog ( powered by #11ty ) eg bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
Just learned of @Bonfire's “Telling” feature!
https://bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
How come no one's talking about this? You can embed Fediverse replies even on static blogs!
@Bonfire Trying the manual follow flow gets me this
the instance is local-only so you cannot follow from remote servers. jacobin is still in the phase of onboarding the community, defining processes and governance and shaping the community itself - they want to open to the fediverse at some point though...
@Bonfire I get an ”Account not found” error for that account (Mona for iOS) 🤔
@sef@social.coop you must have a jacobin membership to join jacobin.social
Alle #Jacobin Leser:innen finden mich nun auch auf dem sozialen Netzwerk des Magazins!
https://jacobin.social/@ErikUden
Kommt gerne auch her — nicht lange ist es hin, dann wird es aber dem Fediverse geöffnet sein!
@ErikUden@mastodon.de great news!
here we share more about the behind the scene of working with #jacobin to codesign and build jacobin.social: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
eager to hear your feedback and thoughts about it 😊
Alle #Jacobin Leser:innen finden mich nun auch auf dem sozialen Netzwerk des Magazins!
https://jacobin.social/@ErikUden
Kommt gerne auch her — nicht lange ist es hin, dann wird es aber dem Fediverse geöffnet sein!
Oproep: kunnen jullie voorbeelden met me delen van interessante vormgeving op servers op #ActivityPub? Wat zijn de mogelijkheden om een NRC-server een beetje mooi te maken? Wat kan wel en wat kan niet? #NRCServer
jacobin.social is a fully customized #Bonfire #ActivityPub server we built with Jacobin.de. It reflects Jacobin’s visual identity and lets readers interact with articles and authors according to their membership tier and much more...
Jacobin explains the thinking behind the project here:
jacobin.de/social/
And here’s our case study, which may be useful for your research:
bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
happy to share more about it 😊
The feature was developed for/with their work with the German edition of Jacobin as part of #bonfire 's #codesign strategy.
You can read more about that experience here: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
Have you heard about @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 's #telling #widget?
It is a widget for adding a #fedi comment system to your website (including #WordPress #Drupal... but also #SSG and plain html websites!)
It is also on my top-10 #bonfire features' yet
You can read more about it here: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
@Bonfire I am sorry to keep asking, but I am wondering where you settled on an AI policy for contributors.
Based on this it looks like you've gone all in: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/blob/main/AGENTS.md
Am I misunderstanding?
@reflex@retrogaming.social I'm sorry but we have already replied to you several times and would appreciate your patience in the meantime, for reference: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
What should digital infrastructure for open science look like, and more importantly, who should shape it?
Universities and scholarly communities are starting to explore new directions together. This includes a living lab at Warwick, governance research with Princeton HCI and experiments with the Prosocial Design Network.
We invite more scientists, research communities and universities to join: experiment and study it, co-design what comes next, and help govern the Open Science Network.
Science Communication in the Fediverse – Mastodon and Open Science Network https://winoda.de/en/2026/08/12/science-communication-in-the-fediverse-mastodon-and-open-science-network/ A while back, I was once again browsing my personal corner of the internet after work. These days, this mainly involves two Mastodon accounts—an anonymous private one and an “official” […] #WiNoDaKnowledgeLabJournalen #Bonfire #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenScience #OpenScienceNetwork
You’ll be happy to know that Pelago is pissing off exactly the people it should right now: serial harassers and block evaders.
@Bonfire no response on my question about AI usage. Can you help me out here? A partial answer is also honest enough... "yes, we use AI but we are preparing a policy and a full update"?
Right now it's just awkward crickets.
@benjaoming@social.data.coop we've replied several times to the same question both on the fediverse and on our issue tracker: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
@bookstodon
Bonfire http://bonfirenetworks.org/ sounds like it could be great for the book community, though the name itself makes me a little nervous in this context. 🔥
We’re delighted that the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is following Bonfire’s evolution with such interest.
The EEF supports the #Erlang, #Elixir, and wider #BEAM community, which is the ecosystem behind the technology Bonfire is built with. The foundation plans to deploy Bonfire and explore how it could serve that community. We’re excited to see what they discover and to collaborate with them.
Read the update from the EEF: com.erlef.org/wg/com/2026/08...
@Bonfire hey there! A lot of old blog posts keep being posted to this fedi account. Is that on purpose?
@georges@dice.camp hi sorry for the noise, yes it's to enable federated comments underneath them (see our latest blog post), we did back-date the posts but unfortunately it seems Mastodon ignores that
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