Bonfire (@Bonfire)

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Public Interest Social Networks

Bonfire is built by communities, for communities. Rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your tools, reclaim your data, and resist manipulation by shaping your own federated digital spaces.

Posts by @ivan and @mayel

Previously at @bonfire@indieweb.social

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LAUTI

@lauti · 21 hours ago

With the exodus from big tech social media, people often wonder where they find events for their city or community. The need for community driven/owned event calendars rises and with it people starting one themselves. Nowadays there are a couple of viable technical solutions, but the real question is: How do you get people to use them. In this blog post we reflect on nearly 5 years of building and operating @eintopf@sueden.social We hope this will help others to make their calendar a success. Comments and additions highly welcome.

lauti.org/blog/how-to-commun...

LAUTI

How to Community Calendar!?!

How to build and grow your own community calendar.

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Tommi 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent · 2 days ago

YAAAAAAAA @Bonfire is a HONOURABLE MENTION at the very first #OpenSocialAwards at @publicspaces

🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World ❤️‍🔥

(Also the most shy people in the room)

#PubConf2026

Evan Prodromou

@evan@cosocial.ca · 3 days ago

Should users on a server be able to opt out of having their content shared by the server to a relay?

#EvanPoll #poll

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Michael Newton

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu · 2 weeks ago

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe Running it already!

Hmm. I seem to be having some issues with search. Do I need to change anything on the config side for 1.0.4? (Trying to tag somebody in the composer is showing me ActivityPub IDs, not tags, and trying to use the search box just starts a UI reload loop)

Bonfire

@Bonfire · 2 weeks ago

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu thanks for reporting! We can reproduce the autocomplete issue but not the search, could you please send us app logs of when it refreshes?

Michael Newton

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu · 2 weeks ago

Checked if there was a @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe release for the first time in a few days and noticed there was, and then was puzzled when I couldn't download the container image.

On double checking the time stamps, turns out I had tried to pull the image less than 2 minutes after Mayel pushed the commit.

Bonfire

@Bonfire · 2 weeks ago

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu it's out now 😊

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Autonomic Co-op

@autonomic@sunbeam.city · 3 weeks ago

Wow @Bonfire is so cool!

We're hosting our first instance for a client and it feels quite refreshing.

It's still early days for us hosting #Bonfire so it's not the cheapest yet but if you are interested, do get in touch!

#fediverse

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Screenshot of an empty Bonfire timeline. We haven't turned federation on yet.

Screenshot of the Bonfire admin dashboard. There are a LOT of settings! More than Mastodon.

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FediForum

@fediforum.org@bsky.brid.gy · 3 weeks ago

Bonfire Mosaic is co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse.They showed off federated groups and new publisher tools, including embeddable federated comment threads for blogs and CMS sites, at the most recent #FediForum. 1/2

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FediForum

@fediforum@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

By Ivan Minutillo & Mayel de Borniol, Bonfire creators/maintainers

https://spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNjgXtVg3uS2i

/cc @Bonfire

FediForum Demo: Bonfire Mosaic: co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse

wyatt

@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe · 3 weeks ago

Best trackpoint cap shape/design?
Rubber eraser caps can still be found from Unicomp, btw.

Rubber eraser (original)

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Cat's tongue (most common on older models)

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Golf tee

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Soft dome (the cap modern thinkpads still come with and have been installed with by default for some years now)

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I only have ever had soft dome caps

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Michael Newton

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu · 3 weeks ago

Testing some setting, help appreciated.

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Michael Newton

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu · 3 weeks ago

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe Just as a heads up, this post renders as an audio file for me? Following the link to the source file takes me to the 1.0.3 release announcement

Bonfire

@Bonfire · 3 weeks ago

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu thanks for the heads up! we were testing a new feature, still a few rough edges 😊

Bonfire

@Bonfire · 3 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

Bonfire

@Bonfire · 3 weeks ago

Carlos Solís

@csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 4 weeks ago

@Bonfire When I tried to run the default Bonfire executables on my device, it crashed with a segfault, and investigating further it seems to be caused because my device lacks AVX instructions. Maybe there's some flag I can use to manually build without AVX support? I was using the version shipped by YunoHost: github.com/YunoHost-Apps/bonfi…

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Bonfire

@Bonfire · 4 weeks ago

@csolisr@hub.azkware.net ah yeah it probably would have to built for (ideally on) your machine in this case

Carlos Solís

@csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 4 weeks ago

Terrible moment to learn that #Bonfire, the up-and-coming #ActivityPub implementation, apparently has a hard dependency on #AVX instructions that my home server's chipset physically lacks. I'd have to spend upwards of $400 just to replace my server in order to test it, sigh... @Bonfire

Bonfire

@Bonfire · 4 weeks ago

@csolisr@hub.azkware.net Which dependency did you see on AVX? our markdown renderer for example uses it when available but has a fallback which should be enabled automatically when not available (otherwise you can force it with `MDEX_USE_LEGACY_ARTIFACTS=true`. In any case please provide more info or open a bug report.

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@liaizon@social.wake.st · last month

watching the intro to @Bonfire Mosaic, its looking really good, and see they are making lots of progress with fediverse groups

https://videos.scanlines.xyz/w/hV9wzGzsXvNjgXtVg3uS2i

I really hope they don't introduce new handle semantics tho at I see from the demo they are using &groupname@instance.tld as opposed to !groupname@instance.tld that lemmy is already using and @groupname@instance.tld that most of the rest of the fediverse already supports to some extent

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@Bonfire · last month

@liaizon@social.wake.st those are just placeholders, our goal is maximum interoperability while also extending what is possible, and we're participating in the W3C groups task force to define how things should work, please weigh in there if you have any suggestions: github.com/swicg/groups/issues

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@Bonfire · last month

Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥

We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website.

Built on our modular framework for community-governed digital spaces.

Watch 👉 spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNj...

Bonfire

@Bonfire · last month

You can read more about our work on groups in this previous blog post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/wh...

And if you're an #ActivityPub developer who's interested, please join the W3C task force discussions: github.com/swicg/groups/issues

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

David Fleetwood - RG Admin

@reflex@retrogaming.social · last month

@Bonfire @fediforum Hi there, any chance you will prohibit the use of #AI in code contributions?

Bonfire

@Bonfire · last month

@reflex@retrogaming.social

Thanks for asking, it's something we're taking seriously. We're working on an AI policy for the project but want to do it thoughtfully and with care rather than rush something out, please bear with us.

@fediforum@mastodon.social

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@Bonfire · last month

Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥

Built on our modular framework for community-governed digital spaces.

Watch 👉 spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNj...

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