measure this ceppa bryan johnson...
noemamag.com/cultivating-wel...

Bonfire is one of the most exciting projects in the ActivityPub ecosystem, whilst Newsmast brings experience in community-building, advocacy, and outreach through projects like https://Channel.org.
You can learn more about Bonfire's Mosaic project here: https://bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic/
Let’s see what we can achieve together!

Bonfire x Newsmast
We’re excited to share that Bonfire and @newsmast are working together.
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels mobile app and Bonfire
🌌 Partnering to offer services for organisations around Bonfire’s Mosaic initiative

Newsmast is one of the most promising organisations pushing the fediverse forward with community-building, advocacy, and outreach.
And Channel.org is bringing innovations in collective publishing and content curation.
Together, we're creating pathways to support organizations discover the power of federated, community-owned social infrastructure.
Learn more about Mosaic: https://bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic
@newsmast

Newsmast x Bonfire
We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together!
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire
🌌 Partnering to offer services for organisations around Bonfire’s Mosaic initiative
nuova casa per le galline in costruzione, per questi giorni devono accontentarsi di un bilocale...
I've noticed that as well when I edit posts. The Bonfire Edit dialog isn't quite right. I usually just delete it and start over.

@ele@spark.box464.social @spark464@spark.box464.social @mayel @box464@mastodon.social @admin@spark.box464.social
right, we need to properly integrate the edit workflow in our current composer, instead of using a dialog... will open an issue! thx!
noticing is my way of opposing
"[...] 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, with special attention to the more-than-human world, by which I mean the human plus non-human world."
Non so bene cosa stiamo facendo ma per ora sembra piacergli....
Anna Tsing - Wonder in the midst of dread (A very recent lecture)
🤮 This is the reason why US withdraws from UNESCO today (from the official note)
"...UNESCO’s decision to admit the “State of Palestine” as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization."
state.gov/releases/office-of...

Are you a community, organization or project needing custom features while staying connected to the open web?
Our #Mosaic initiative makes this possible: build your specific tools (open knowledge management, coordination, governance, resource sharing, ...), or integrate your existing tools in your digital space while federating with the wider ecosystem.
Learn how at https://bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic
Your needs, your tools, your community, all connected. 🧩

🌊 Exciting news! Crowdinblue - a mission-led initiative bridging water solutions with funding - has chosen #Bonfire to build their federated community space!
Together, we're designing custom extensions to connect water projects with impact investors and crowdfunding opportunities. All in a federated environment that puts communities and projects first.
Welcome to the Bonfire ecosystem, crowdinblue! 💚
Read more about the project: https://crowdinblue.org
#CommonsEconomy #WaterJustice #Fediverse

We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing check-ins, calendars, events, opening hours - all federated. A living hub for what's happening there.
🔧 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444
This unlocks new possibilities for local organizing, let's explore together 🔥

Happy to test check-out and travel activities too if you have examples to share.
We're tracking mockups and implementation progress here: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444

Taking a quick detour from our 1.0rc3 milestone work! 🛤️
This morning we added a small but meaningful feature:
🔗 Link previews now display the author's fediverse account when available.
➡️ Next up: Author attribution controls in Bonfire's verification settings, so writers can decide exactly how they're credited when their articles travel across the fediverse. ✍️
It will be available in next release to test it out!
"... According to Young's notes, the song was banned in Spain under Franco. according to Xavier Valiño, when Zuma was released in Spain following Franco's death, the song was listed as "Cortez, Cortez"."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-XnPXL_HMA

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Connect your existing tools to the fediverse with Mosaic
Your organisation's favorite apps, now with superpowers.
We all navigate a constellation of specialized tools daily. Organisations depend on CRMs, project management platforms, and financial systems. Communities coordinate through forums, chat and event platforms, and resource-sharing databases. Individuals track their lives across fitness apps, reading lists, streaming services, knowledge management tools and more.
Each app serves its purpose, but they each create isolated silos where valuable activities, insights, and connections remain trapped behind separate logins and walled gardens.
What if you could keep using the tools built for your needs while opening them to your community or the broader fediverse according to your specific rules and boundaries?
🧰 Bridge your tools to the open web
Through our Mosaic initiative, leveraging the Bonfire modular framework, we offer like-minded organizations and communities the opportunity to build custom extensions that connect their homegrown or third-party applications to the fediverse. These bridges:
- Import data from your existing tools
- Transform it into rich ActivityPub activities for federation
- Enable meaningful, two-way interactions
- Respect your privacy boundaries and governance needs
The result? Your isolated tools become part of a connected, collaborative ecosystem.
Real-world examples: your tools, federated
Project management meets community feedback
Imagine your team uses a kanban board to manage development sprints. With a custom Bonfire extension, we could connect the service's API and monitor specific triggers like completed tasks, cards tagged with #feedback, or comments added.
When triggered, the extension would create ActivityPub objects with rich metadata: task description, relevant links, and progress context. Your fediverse followers would receive these as native posts they can react to, boost, and comment on. Their feedback would flow back through the extension as comments on the original card.
You would control the boundaries granularly, e.g. public for open source projects, followers-only for beta features, restricted to your instance for internal work, or anything in between. The two-way sync would ensure your project management tool remains the single source of truth while your community becomes an active participant in the development process.
Community resources go network-wide
Your mutual aid network could maintain a resource spreadsheet or database tracking offers, needs, and availability. Our extension would poll for new entries or status changes (by connecting to an API, listening to webhooks, or even directly reading the database or spreadsheet itself), converting them into structured ActivityPub objects with standardised properties for location and resource type taxonomy tags, and custom properties for quantity and urgency.
When someone marks "10 wool blankets available" or "urgent: need baby formula," it would federate as a rich post that other instances can parse intelligently. Neighboring mutual aid groups would see these in dedicated feeds or maps, filtered by resource type or geographic proximity.
The extension could handle resource matching across networks, suggesting possible connections between needs and offers while respecting each network's autonomy.
Events that travel beyond platform borders
Your organisation's calendar contains everything from public conferences to internal meetings. The extension would connect via calendar APIs (CalDAV, Google Calendar API, etc.) and intelligently parse event metadata: detecting whether events are public, extracting registration links, and identifying capacity limits.
Public events would become rich ActivityPub Event objects that federated platforms can display natively—Mobilizon and Bonfire instances would show them in event listings, Mastodon users would see them as interactive posts. RSVPs would flow back through via ActivityPub federation, updating your attendee count in real-time.
The extension could handle timezone conversions, recurring events, and last-minute changes. When you update event details, it would send an update to ensure all federated copies stay synchronised.
The possibilities are endless
Imagine federating your collaborative playlists to spark music discovery across communities. Or sharing fitness milestones that inspire distributed workout challenges. Or creating transparent financial reporting that builds trust with your supporter network.
Ready to give your tools superpowers?
The examples above showcase just a glimpse of what's possible when we bridge isolated tools to the fediverse. While these specific integrations are just ideas, they represent the transformative potential of Bonfire, and we're ready to build them with you.
Mosaic is a unique service where the Bonfire team works with you to co-design and build custom extensions entirely shaped around your community's needs.
Mosaic is perfect for you if:
- You're frustrated by data trapped in isolated platforms
- Your community wants to participate more but faces too many barriers
- You believe in transparency and collaborative approaches
- You're ready to pioneer new models of digital cooperation
What we offer:
- Custom extension development tailored to your specific tools and workflows
- Full control over privacy boundaries and federation rules
- Ongoing support as your needs evolve
- The opportunity to be among the first to explore federated tool integration
Let's start a conversation.
Whether you want to federate your project management, open up your resource database, or imagine entirely new possibilities, we're here to build it with you. Your use case could become the next example inspiring others to break down their digital silos.
Book a call with us or contact us at team@bonfire.cafe.


in love with the new #BrandeeYounger album