Am I the only one out of the loop on what @Bonfire is? Am I correct on that it's a collection of software (some of it in Elixir?) to do different federated things? Bonfire Social seems to be a Mastodon alternative? https://bonfirenetworks.org talks in very lofty terms about a network but a network of what? There seems to be a website builder (Mosaic) that also has some ActivityPub support?
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@nicd @Bonfire It looks like a system for doing ActivityPub things, primarily written in Elixir. IIRC, the ActivityPub support was originally derived from Pleroma One of the pre-built apps (Bonfire Social) is a Mastodon-like thing, but it has other apps and extensions to do other things. (AFAIK, an "app" is a essentially a collection of extensions.) I'm hoping to start up an instance to maybe replace my current ActivityPub account (running Friendica), but I'm not sure if my server is beefy enough to do so.
You got that mostly right! We are indeed working trying to improve our website and how we describe the project...
Bonfire is entirely made up of extensions/plugins written in Elixir with Phoenix/LiveView/Surface.
Mosaic is more of a service offering to build digital spaces by using/extending/creating Bonfire extensions (all open source).
Hope that helps!
Bonfire social
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
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