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#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 :)
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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.
@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 🎩
Finally reading Octavia butler
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:
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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.
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#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...
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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.
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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/
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
ivan
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👾 Ci siamo!
📯 Appuntamento a NINA Festival per il workshop
🔥 Attorno a Bonfire - framework open source federato
Creare spazi digitali federati, flessibili e orientati alla comunità
con @ivan, Zero81, Scift Lab, @reclaimthetech,
📍dove e quando
Sabato 9 maggio, alle 15.00
Millepiani - Via Nicolò Odero 13 - Roma
🔗 link per registrarsi (gratuito):
https://supporta.nina.watch/NINA/roma/19/
🧩 Aiutateci a diffondere coinvolgendo altri collettivi e comunità oltre Reclaim the Tech!
a great article by @thisismissem@hachyderm.io on going beyond binary approach to federation...
" > However, we've been presented with a false dichotomy here: we don't need to operate in a world where we either allow everything until blocked, or block everything until we allow it. There are other ways that we can look at federation management. Some of these include Consent Based Federation, where a moderator or administrator has to review and approve a server before accepting federation (or denying it), or models that resemble a firewall on a computer or server: you'd don't just have to accept or deny federation, but you can also apply filters to the federation between your server and another."
writings.thisismissem.social...
ivan
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Hi everyone 
We're a new tech co-op that aims to support people working for social good with compassionate and caring tech support. No more feeling alone, no more getting stuck. That thing that is a total showstopper for you, may be an easy fix for us. We’ll be there for you.
We're currently mostly one person @kawaiipunk who is a founder member of @autonomic (and friends) but we're looking to expand.
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⁂ Fediverse meetup at #EGU26 🌍
Join us to exchange experiences and to talk about the potential fedi has to become a platform for scientific discussion and networking.
🗓️Thu, 07 May, 17:30–18:30
📍EGU networking zone – terrace G (Purple Level)
Resisting the Monoculture of the Mind, Donna Haraway in conversation with Laura Flanders
lauraflanders.org/donna-hara...
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On Saturday May 9th in Rome, as part of the Nina Festival, we're hosting a workshop to think with Bonfire, exploring and co-designing federated digital spaces for caring for our communities.
Together with @reclaimthetech@mastodon.uno, Zero81, Scift Lab and more.
📍 Millepiani, Via Odero 13, 3pm
If you're in (or near) Rome, come join us!
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we draw on design workshops to sketch out a vision of trust bubbles, coalition-building, and shared vocabularies. what really excites me is that the ecosystem participants envisioned was quite coherent - we're actually now developing some ideas for tools 🧰🔧 + resources 📝 in partnership with @Bonfire
in this paper in particular, we highlight tensions around autonomy and labor + identify three principles of design (modularity, polycentricity, forkability) that are guiding our ongoing efforts!
