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quanto è importante e contemporaneo lo spettacolo sul vajont di Paolini...
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Originally published on Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy blog, this article by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social reflects on a semester of collaboration with Bonfire. Together, we explored how Governance Cards could help communities describe how they organise and govern their shared spaces.

Community rules will ship alongside federated groups in the upcoming Bonfire release 🎉

bonfirenetworks.org/posts/ma... #Governance #Crowcards

@epilepticrabbit@social.coop after reading Ursula K. Le Guin “Space Crone” essay, everytime i think of an old woman i see an earth' space ambassador 😊

@mattmay@mstdn.social big companies spend $300-500M yearly on marketing, OpenAI is not different, they throw $22M, plagiarized mathematicians, and brute-forced the solution to install in people mind that chatGPT has surpassed the smartest human in Math, one of the foundational disciplines to understand the universe. It was a really good marketing move, work of the devil, as most marketing is...

Noticing is the discipline these times most lack and the one #AutisticiInventati has practiced against techno fascist over the past twenty-five years:

"Noticing is my way of opposing a particular modernist practice of looking towards an imagined future. Certain things get coded as possible futures and then we develop blinders so that all we can see is our trajectory towards one kind of imagined future, which isn’t actually the future but is a stereotyped dream future. And so, we stopped seeing. Noticing is trying to take those blinders off to look at the world around us..."

fojournal.org/interview/anna...

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.

We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.

Built around open Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) specifications, this work will help platforms connect to shared services instead of each having to build and operate the same capabilities alone.

Our aim is to make these capabilities open, interoperable, and available for any federated server to adopt.

A big thank you to @Mastodon@mastodon.social team for involving us in this work. We’re looking forward to building together and sharing what we learn along the way.

Read the full post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bu...

#ActivityPub #FASP

In solidarity with #AutisticiInventati.

Please join us in signing the open letter and send it to your representatives: inventati.org/campaign/open_...

A/I's mission has always been clear, and for more than twenty years it has inspired generations of hackers and activists in Italy and around the world: "Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri." Sharing knowledge without establishing power.

That is what the US is attacking, and that is what is at stake today.

The premise of these sanctions, that whoever provides communications infrastructure answers for whatever anyone does with it, would criminalise and shut down most Big Tech platforms tomorrow if applied equally.

Instead it is aimed at grassroots services who refuse to surveil their users.

We condemn these sanctions, and we stand firmly with solidarity tech like A/I. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism.

inventati.org/campaign

@cavallette@mastodon.bida.im

We’re gathering around a fire 🔥

Around the Bonfire is our new newsletter: a digest of releases, community stories, collaborations, and everything else taking shape around Bonfire.

We’ll send it when there’s a new release, but never more than once a month. You can unsubscribe whenever you like.

The first edition is coming soon. Join us:

bonfirenetworks.org/subscribe

Bonfire 1.0.7 is out 🔥

It includes a new default UI, reworked discussions, faster and more flexible feeds, better mobile navigation, and fixes across federation, accessibility, publishing and admin tools.
We’re also sharing our bikemap for what’s next: public federated groups, better notifications and easier-to-find settings.
Want to help shape federated groups? We’re currently looking for pilot communities, get in touch!

Read the post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/...

Discussion: bonfire.cafe/...

Turn your #Ghost publication into a thriving community with Bonfire.

Automatically import all your Ghost articles into dedicated Bonfire groups and topics while preserving the membership tiers you’ve already set up. Readers can sign in to your Bonfire instance with their Ghost account, then discuss, react to, and connect around your work all in one place.

It’s the natural next step for publications: moving beyond growing an audience to nurturing a community.

Read more about our Ghost integration bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/

Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles.

You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you.

Each team member signs in with their usual Bonfire account, with no insecure sharing of passwords, and together they can post as the organisation, access its feeds and private messages, manage its settings, and add or remove other members.

It’s similar to managing a Facebook Page, but built for the #fediverse: one shared public identity, securely managed by multiple people.

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.

➡️ bonfirenetworks.org/posts/crowdfunding...

A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱

Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.

It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.

But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.

Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊

Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

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.

bonfirenetworks.org/science #OpenScience #science

@macfranc@poliversity.it meh
@nuke@poliversity.it @pierobosio@soc.bosio.info @enzoesco@poliverso.org @fo@libranet.de

@lavaeolus@fedihum.org @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @Bonfire @jorgeluis@mastodon.pub.solar @pierre@universites.social @unif@universites.social @fresseng@universites.social @AvSchroeder@fedihum.org

here it is matrix.to/#/#osn:matrix.org

@fresseng@universites.social @lavaeolus@fedihum.org @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @Bonfire @jorgeluis@mastodon.pub.solar @pierre@universites.social @unif@universites.social @AvSchroeder@fedihum.org

we explain it in our FAQ openscience.network/faqs/

The flow is : when a publication is archived and gets a DOI, you can add co-authors to the metadata. If the instance has ORCID member API access, each co-author gets an ORCID notification to claim the work and link it to their ORCID record. They don’t need to already have an account on that Bonfire or Open Science instance, and depending on their ORCID settings, they may also get an email alert from ORCID. would love to get back to that work <3

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