In case you missed it: Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together
We're shifting our centre of gravity: from social features to community tools.
Bonfire was never meant to be one more feed that grabs your attention. Today it takes the shape we've been building toward: Bonfire for communities. A tool for groups that need to organise together, not just post at each other. Shipping today: groups and topics, events, shared organisation profiles, embeddable federated comments, customisable themes, and a first set of governance tools. It comes as a ready-to-use space with everything included, to then be reshaped block by block: add what's missing, swap or fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
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@mayel @Bonfire_Networks I like this: So there's a third option between "run everything yourself" and "pay a SaaS landlord": shared community infrastructure. We're members of Co-op Cloud, a federation sharing deployment tools and recipes, alongside hosting co-ops like CoQuest, who host jacobin.social and help maintain the Co-op Cloud recipe that makes Bonfire straightforward for any co-op or self-hoster to deploy. Together we're building a cooperative hosting network on the model of community-supported agriculture: communities sustain shared infrastructure, and it sustains them. Self-host, join a co-op, or start one: the point is that it's your call.