Nice talk by @ivan and @mayel about Bonfire and how they build digital community spaces with Bonfire and related projects, like the Lauti calendar, in practice.

"It's an ecosystem of people who meet together to meet needs. People who share cost, share risk, share expertise and knowledge, share governance over the tools they rely on, and reinforce each other's capacity to adapt, survive, and thrive. This is how we think Open Source can become sustainable. Not by mimicking startup economics, but by building ecologies where survival is mutual. By making sustainability a shared, ongoing cooperative project rather than a lonely competition."

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3QHALR-bonfire_building_modular_consentful_and_federated_social_networks/

#bonfire #socialmedia #floss #digitalsovereignty

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...

🔥 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...

@oli@olifant.social big fan of your work!

@Bonfire

https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/changelog.html

They added Archipelago support.

Yes, that's what they call it.

I am beaming right now.

@Bonfire YOU DID ARCHIPELAGOS!!!!!

Facciamo HTML Day in Italia!

❇️ L’8 agosto sarà HTML Day! ❇️

In quei giorni io sarò in Italia, specificamente a Sanremo, dove dubito ci siano nerd del Web quanto me.

Dunque cerco amanti di HTML che siano interessatз a partecipare e/o co-organizzare un piccolo incontro carino anche da noi, per celebrare il linguaggio ipertestuale più bello del mondo.

La mia idea è di scegliere una città del nord (purtroppo non riesco a muovermi più lontano), trovare un luogo che ci ospiti e fare una festicciola, magari con qualche piccola demo, presentazione o condivisione di skill. 🪩

🪁 Se ci state, rispondete a questo post, scrivetemi un’email o contattatemi su Signal.

📣 Condividete questo messaggio ovunqueeee!

⚠️ AGGIORNAMENTO: purtroppo non sono riuscito a organizzare nulla, ma venite a @scambi il 27 agosto, faremo un lab lì con @jockbaia e amichettз ❤️

@informatica

#Web #HTML #HTMLday #HTMLenergy #WebDev #evento #Italia

@EyeOnAlaska@alaskan.social wow

Dear Fedi friends,

Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.

The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.

I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.

My articles on them:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

Wow. Just wow.

@boud@framapiaf.org we're drafting our AI policy and will share publicly as soon as it's ready...
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @Bonfire @brembs@mastodon.social @olibrendel@scicomm.xyz @A_J_Millar@fediscience.org @fresseng@universites.social

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu yeah apparently something changed in new astro version. We temp commented it in beta.3 since it was using only in the weather widget for showing moon phases, and the widget is currently on hold anyway

@Bonfire

@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

@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

@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

@liaizon@social.wake.st Policykit ftw!