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@Bonfire A request of you please? When you link your blog posts here, it's great. I just wish I had a clue what they are about. I don't get the full link, and the card that gets displayed is always the same generic info card about the bonfire site. Give me a clue about what the post is so I can determine if I want to read it.
@pedersen@c.im that was a bug, thanks for notifying us!
@Bonfire
I would have liked to participate, as I am still unclear about what exactly Bonfire provides, and whether it'd be suitable for two potential communities I want to create. Sadly the registration is already closed 😢.
Is there anywhere else I can ask questions and get advice?
As a side note, I was surprised (and disappointed) to see that your chosen partner for conducting the interviews, uses Google Forms, rather than a privacy respecting alternative such as #Framaforms or #LiberaForms. They are a much better fit for a project that targets an audience that wants to get away from #bigtech
@aerion@nerdculture.de Thanks for your interest 😊 that post was from a couple years ago though (our blog is now automatically federating, we backdated old posts but looks like Mastodon ignores that).
@AvSchroeder @lavaeolus @UlrikeHahn @Bonfire
They do not want to, and I understand why : it is to keep it truly federated.
Furthermore, running such an instance has costs. My feeling is that it is the responsibility of the scientific community to host OSN servers.
We manage to do it for emails (SMTP protocol) : why not for OSN (ActivityPub protocol) ?
@fresseng@universites.social correct, and it's also responsibility of the scientific community to engage and codesign with us the exact features, user experience and goverance models that are needed for open science to thrive beyond capitalistic and closed platforms.
The goal of the Open Science Network has always been to give the scientific community a real opportunity to shape and govern not only its own servers, but also the software roadmap, rather than reproducing a top-down model in which yet another company builds features for others to adopt without meaningful participation :)
@AvSchroeder@fedihum.org @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org @lavaeolus@fedihum.org @pierre@universites.social @unif@universites.social @jorgeluis@mastodon.pub.solar
@thenexusofprivacy @Bonfire When you say groups are currently local-only, does that mean everyone who wants to be a part of multiple groups/communities will have to create multiple accts?
@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net @thenexusofprivacy@gotosocial.thenexus.today Yes for now that's the biggest gap, and it's our biggest priority to sort out. Wiring groups up between Bonfire instances would be easy, but our goal is for groups to work across the whole open social web, where someone on Mastodon or any other fediverse app can join and take part. That's why we're contributing our implementation experience to the W3C groups task force, working towards a common standard. Anyone into fediverse protocols and software is invited to come join the task force: this only works if we design it together, in the open.
Would be interesting to, at some point, see these ideas tangibly connected and allow users to jump between the two 🤔
Definitely! Would be great to have you all involved in these discussions: github.com/swicg/groups/issu...
A lot of overlap of thinking between @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy's Acorn and what @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe is doing with communities 👀
Why Community Matters: Groups ...
@quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy
Yeah we love what Blacksky folks are doing ✊ We mentioned that and some of the differences with the likes of Bluesky in our eyes on this page: bonfirenetworks.org/about/
Also here's a blog post from today with what we've been building with communities over last few months: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
That's all for the last 30 days...
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