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Nicolas Fressengeas

@fresseng@universites.social · 5 hours ago

@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

https://openscience.network/blog/

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@Wtebbens@social.coop · 3 days ago

Thanks @ivan. These cases, do you refer to Jacobin.de and Newsmast? We're keen to find out more and would be glad to help document. To help other cases lift off. @mayel @bonfire

ivan

@ivan · 3 days ago

@Wtebbens@social.coop im referring mostly to Jacobin (bonfire for publishing), Totnes Pulse (bonfire for neighborhoods) and boven-jan (bofnire for mental health communities)... happy to share the gist of those on a call if you want, and open to get help on writing more about those!

@mayel @bonfire@indieweb.social

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@Wtebbens@social.coop · 5 days ago

Dear @ivan @mayel, we're collecting stories about inspiring "Connected Community Spaces" and would like to get a few @bonfire stories.

Could you give us more info on the jacobin.de case? You presented at the https://fediforum.org/2026-04/session/7-b/ is their more details available?

Other stories about communities adopting Bonfire as their toolbox to shape their community space might be of interest.

I'm asking for the FKI, DTF and others around us who'd love to learn more, document it for our communities and help telling your stories 🙂

FediForum

FediForum | Embedded Comments & Groups in Bonfire and in the Fediverse

ivan

@ivan · 3 days ago

@Wtebbens@social.coop hi! We will publish a couple of case studies during the summer going through all the codesign and development we did with 2 projects we are involved with👍️ @bonfire@indieweb.social @mayel

wakest ⁂

@liaizon@social.wake.st · last week

Do we need to have a CEO of Wikipedia? Can we maybe just not?

ivan

@ivan · last week

@liaizon@social.wake.st Policykit ftw!

🫧 socialcoding..

@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

@liaizon @ozoned @ivan @mayel

Though there is some weirdness, as the first part of the article post is duplicated..

Snapshot of the article post in Bonfire v1.0.2 that shows the duplicated text.

ivan

@ivan · last week

@smallcircles@social.coop @mayel @liaizon@social.wake.st @ozoned@btfree.social

Its because we currently use the summary field as cw text when present...

ivan

@ivan · 2 weeks ago

Cose difficili

ivan

@ivan · 2 weeks ago

Test from icecube 🥸

millennial fulcrum

@falcennial@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:

How frequently do you chat with LLM?

Closed 169 votes

not at all

80% (136)

a few times per month

8% (14)

multiple times per week

11% (18)

over 1 hour per day

1% (1)

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻

@benpate@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

#Fediverse, I need your help.

I have a budget for a small contract to improve #Emissary, and am looking for a talented web designer to create a new default theme for the server.

Highlights:
* Probably ~60 hours of work
* Anywhere in the world
* Must be a good person

Details are here:
https://benpate.dev/20260601-html-designer

If you know someone who's great with HTML+CSS+Design, and is looking for a short gig, please share this with them :)

#FediHire #GetFediHired

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The Fulcrum/Symfony Station⚒️

@SymfonyStation@drupal.community · 2 weeks ago

Yancey Strickler examines: Seven years in the forest. https://www.ystrickler.com/seven-years-in-the-forest/ #CommunitySpaces
This in an in-browser light version of efforts like Newsmast, Acorn, and Bonfire / Manade.

Yancey Strickler

Seven years in the forest

Seven years ago this month, I sent this list an essay about how I felt increasingly reluctant to be my real self online. I and many others, I wrote, were retreating from public view into the dark forest — a phrase borrowed from Cixin Liu’s novel, where civilizations stay silent

Mac

@macberg@mastodon.online · 3 weeks ago

It's a pedestrian poll (cyclists are welcome too)!
When you're crossing a road with no pedestrian lights, and there's a car coming that you're expecting to stop, where do you look to make sure before you head out into the road?
#poll #cars #walking #cycling

Closed 186 votes

The driver

66% (123)

The car

25% (47)

Keep the car in peripheral vision

4% (8)

Somewhere else (comment)

4% (8)

ivan

@ivan · 3 weeks ago

testing how quoting from #bonfire looks from #mastodon

bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01K...

ivan

@ivan · 3 weeks ago

@phanpy@hachyderm.io never stops surprising me with small but meaningful UX details... just saw how it shows alt descriptions as footnotes below uploaded media, and i want to do the same in bonfire... chapeau @cheeaun@mastodon.social 🎩

screenshot of a post on phanpy with alt descriptions displaied as footnotes

ivan

@ivan · 3 weeks ago

Finally reading Octavia butler

Octavia butler “La parabola del seminatore”

Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st · 4 weeks ago

If you had an autonomous household robot that could do any housework chores you asked of it (clean, cook, hoover, dust, etc...) would you prefer it looked like:

Closed 0 votes

Humanoid, but clearly a robot (i.e. c3po)

0% (0)

Humanoid, almost human

0% (0)

More like R2d2 or Wall-E

0% (0)

Just an arm, i.e. ISS Canadarm

0% (0)

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Bonfire

@Bonfire · 4 weeks ago

We just released Bonfire Social 1.0.3 🔥

Blog post with all the details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

It comes with dozens of bug fixes and UX improvements, plus:

Federated comments embeddable on any web page.

Deep Ghost integration: SSO, membership tier sync, and automatic article import.

New dashboard widgets: spotlight, polls closing soon, top discussions.

#CalmEmpowerment: a new design pattern that starts with a few sensible defaults, offers a middle layer of common adjustments, and reveals the full options only when you need them. Boundaries and post permissions got this treatment first, more to follow...
Modular community rules: a first step in bringing research and co-design with students and researchers at @hci@micro.blogs.princeton.edu into Bonfire, so governance becomes something communities can better define and share, and that others can fork and adapt.

#Bonfire #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Ghost #CommunityRules

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

@jaz@toot.wales · 4 weeks ago

My latest blog post in the "Million Fediverses" series: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/05/12/there-are-a-million-fediverses-some-of-them-are-louder-than-others/

ivan

@ivan · 4 weeks ago

just discovered another super interesting and needed work done by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social platform.coop/blog/toward-wo...

"Aiming to shift control of delivery work away from a single entity, OpenCourier is a protocol that defines data formatting and communication across a decentralized network of delivery platforms, couriers, and service requesters. Broadly, we aim to enable an ecosystem (Fig. 1) that centers community-owned delivery platforms, where workers — who we refer to as couriers, given their work providing delivery services — cooperatively manage the platform they are a part of. "

📄 here the full paper dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3...

cc @mayel @lynnfoster@social.coop @bhaugen@social.coop #bonfire #valueflows