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Congratulations @Bonfire on these exciting releases!
PS. Note that there an issue with the new website layout (firefox), where content flows/clips off the right side of the page, and there's no horizontal scrollbar. This happens at 2 places, "same bonfire, different hands" and "discover all features".
Today is announcement day 🔥
Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.
A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.
Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe
Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/
Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub
@Bonfire Congratulations! This looks amazing
@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe These are great news! I do not know which feature I'm more excited with, but after having using Groups for a while, I can say that they are impressively useful and cool.
Keep making #bonfire great(er)!
@Bonfire Thanks for the update, really looking forward to trying this out!
@Bonfire This is amazing! So much innovation and infrastructure development behind your announcement. Thankyou to everyone who is involved!
@Bonfire So...
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.
You did consider governance. Very nice. :)
Congratulations @Bonfire team! You did it, after the crowd funding and working together with these three so inspiring projects. And there you are, with a nice write up of the various experiences, promising all development is fed back into the commons. Now is the time to build more Connected Community Spaces, or archipielagos, in any case spaces where the community owns their socials, where groups are made easy, governance tooling is in place, events and notifications... Thank you for the hard work.
@Bonfire Very interesting, and exciting, congratulations!
@Bonfire This is very interesting and I can see significant uses for it. Have you made a decision around AI contributions yet? It's the one thing I need to know to decide whether to invest time into learning this promising platform or not.
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C’est exactement ce que j'attends depuis des mois pour le fédivers, merci
Congratulations @Bonfire on these exciting releases!
PS. Note that there an issue with the new website layout (firefox), where content flows/clips off the right side of the page, and there's no horizontal scrollbar. This happens at 2 places, "same bonfire, different hands" and "discover all features".
@Bonfire yaaaasss!!!!!
My own setup is still on a back-burner but I hope not for much longer (life, grad school, etc). Looking forward to jumping right to Community.
"Deep Ghost Integration" is really going to shift the landscape, I hope.
@Bonfire “Proposal and consensus, for decisions that need discussion before a vote, drawing on sociocratic practice: collect proposals, discuss and amend, integrate objections, then move forward.” → Very interesting.
@Bonfire this is such a big deal! Congratulations. I can't wait to try it out.
@Bonfire Looks very promising and the need for such tools for communities is clearly awaited since a long time on my side. Can't wait to have an opportunity to try that out.
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@Bonfire This looks really promising. I hope to be able to use it soon. Keep up the good work!