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@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe not related to this, but I don't think I ever got an email for where to sign up for an install party as a part of the Indiegogo campaign. What are the deets for that?
@unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world ah we sent some surveys out a while ago to gather peoples preferences, timezones, etc. We still need to start actually scheduling them but did you receive that?
🔥 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...
Our next two #activitypub pull requests are ready for review:
Hard to get any work done. The view from my wife's office downstairs. #Alaska #Anchorage #BearValley #Moose #WildLifePhotography
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe would it be possible to have federation deletion jobs that don't find the thing to delete not be considered a failed job? I seem to get an awful lot of them (enough to drop federation job success rates down to ~60% sometimes) which makes it hard to spot actual problems when they do happen. Especially because (it appears?) some servers keep on sending the deletion requests, meaning that it's showing errors for things that have already been successfully deleted.
@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu yeah good idea, the reason there's so many is that mastodon sends Delete activities far and wide to try and ensure no deleted posts linger on other servers, we've tried optimising that in the past with github.com/bonfire-networks/... but we have an open issue to tackle it better: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
ok! i think @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe has resolved the federation issues in 1.0.5-beta.1!
@christopher@gay.amsterdam yay 😊 thanks for your help debugging them!
The directory name is ".claude", the filename is "CLAUDE.md", the content looks rather like LLM prompts, and there is a well-known LLM online service called #Claude.
Since I don't do vibe-coding and haven't (yet) had to check vibe-coded code, I can't say more than "a clue". People with experience looking at Claude-vibe-coded code might want to comment here.
@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
@fresseng @A_J_Millar @Bonfire
It needs to be one of the registered users of openscience.net such as
@brembs
Or
@UlrikeHahn
😁
@olibrendel@scicomm.xyz fyi the sandbox instance is only meant for testing how it looks like, it's not intended to be a fully working / federated instance as we do not aim for running flagship instances (decentralisation ftw). That said, we will send you an invite soon
@fresseng@universites.social @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @brembs@mastodon.social @A_J_Millar@fediscience.org
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe I have no idea why Astro was unable to download it automatically? Other outbound http on the container are working fine, so I'd guess a file system permissions issue within the container but I might be totally wrong.
@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
@renchap@oisaur.com nice catching up at the conference! could you please point us to info about federation replies under a thread collection instead of needing backfilling? it may also turn out to be useful for e2ee spec...
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.
Maybe these groups can contribute their experiences
@sperrstunde@mastodon.social @relay@fomobremen.info
@bewegungsmelder_ac@mstdn.social
@planlos_in_leipzig@mastodon.social
@hermine@kolektiva.social @BoAlternativ@ruhr.social @relay@flyinghigh-bonn.org @Polverfass@mastodon.social @auxpunks@troet.cafe
@moving_change@systemli.social
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.
@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!
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 🙂
@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
@lauti@bonfire.cafe is LAUTI working with Mobilizon and Bonfire for events? Would love to do some kind of integration via AP 
@julian@activitypub.space @liaizon@social.wake.st
We laid out the details of our fediverse strategy and cooperation with bonfire in this blog post: lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...
And overall we collaborate with Mobilizon and Gancio @lesion@mastodon.cisti.org via @linos@graz.social @blog@event-federation.eu and the FEP-8a8e. All plan to implement that to have a common base for federating events. Not sure how far the implementation on their side is. @linos@graz.social do you know more?
Would be awesome if NodeBB also supports the FEP in the future.
The next step in our #activitypub implementation is ready! This brings a simple instance actor object along with #webfinger support for it and a #nodeinfo endpoint.
We highly appreciate reviews from any #fedidev 🙏
codeberg.org/Klasse-Methode/...
We are really greatfull for @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl to fund this work and for @linos@graz.social for being such a great mentor!
Feature Highlight for v4.12.0 — Activity Intents
@mayel@bonfire.cafe summary is only sent with as:Article, so your Article carve-out should have worked (but didn't, maybe btfree.org is running an older version).
But your fix combined with mine should solve the problem twice over.
@julian@activitypub.space awesome 😊
@julian@activitypub.space we added an exception for Article but will switch to instead only do that for Note.
@thisismissem@activitypub.space @evan@cosocial.ca @ivan @smallcircles@social.coop @liaizon@social.wake.st
@julian@activitypub.space will that work for you or are you sending Note with summary but no sensitive tag?
@ivan @liaizon@social.wake.st @smallcircles@social.coop @evan@cosocial.ca @thisismissem@activitypub.space
Feature Highlight for v4.12.0 — Activity Intents
@thisismissem okay, but it seems as though Bonfire now treats summary with missing sensitive as a CW.
@julian@activitypub.space we added an exception for Article but will switch to instead only do that for Note.
@thisismissem@activitypub.space @evan@cosocial.ca @ivan @smallcircles@social.coop @liaizon@social.wake.st
Do we need to have a CEO of Wikipedia? Can we maybe just not?
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