🍎 The Forbidden Fruit Social media is designed to keep you there, giving you everything you think you need, from AI-trained algorithms that know your favourite dog breed, to adverts and shops which will throw the next-best-thing in your face. But, you don't have to stay confined within the […]

⚠️ Today is the last chance for you to shape the future of the Fediverse! If you’re a: ✅ Mod ✅Admin ✅Community organiser Do yourself a favour and take 5-10 minutes⏱️to anonymously fill in the IFTAS needs assessment today! https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/

Ivan Minutillo @Bonfire is coming to #fediforum and wants to talk about: Open science network 1.0rc Bonfire social 1.0 stable release Did you see his amazing demo last time? https://spectra.video/w/4hAQxgb22h1iMxfjrKx4QB Can't wait for an update! Join us! https://fediforum.org

📢📢📢📢 Calling all admins, mods & community organisers! Help yourself by helping IFTAS help you! ⏱️ 5-10 minutes 🥸 Anonymous responses 😊 Feel satisfied with a job well done Let’s make the Fediverse easier, safer & https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/

While I'm here, I'm gonna keep signal boostin' the Good People of Co-op Cloud 📢 There are some Super Cool ™ projects who are also members of the federation and choose to promote Co-op Cloud as a way to deploy the free software they make themselves 🎉 @karrot […]

IFTAS is doing its annual fediverse survey. If you are involved in running/moderating an instance, it would be great if you could take a few minutes. The results are always worthwhile. https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/

Last year, volunteer moderators told us their top tooling needs: this year, we’re listening again. Take the survey: https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/ - any platform, any protocol

The 2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment is open! If you run or moderate an online community, your feedback will guide the tools, training, and resources we focus on next year. See https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/ for details #fedimods #moderators #fediadmin #moderation […]

I'm still learning about @bonfire. Here's another feature that showcases the configurability of feeds. You can create custom feeds by limiting them to specific types of objects - videos, long form posts, audio, images, events, research - all kinds of things! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

New blog post: https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses

> Five Al Jazeera journalists including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif have been killed in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital. > The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it had targeted Sharif, alleging he had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas". > […]

Here's another unique feature of Bonfire. One account, many profiles. When you create an account, you can create multiple profiles, each with it's own unique followers, content and settings (and emojis!). Ownership of profiles can be shared with others. A moderation team, a news publication […]

"How do we maintain a sense of individual agency when our connection is increasingly distributed?" I am enjoying every second of this talk: unlikehumans.antikythera.org/

Fun fact (really). The Bonfire fediverse platform allows each **individual user** the ability to upload their own set of custom emojis. There seems to be no limit to how many, tho I'm sure there will have to be as it gets more popular. And it will. Looking snazzy! #bonfire #fediverse

#openscience We're starting to experiment with generating DOIs for articles in Bonfire. We're considering using @crossref as the initial provider, but we'd love to hear your thoughts—is Crossref the right place to start, or would you recommend a different service? @openscience

@quillmatiq firing up session 2 at #fedicon discussing network effects on the social web.

Day 1 session 7 at #FediCon - @deadsuperhero#fediconrunning a panel of all today's speakers

Bonfire x Newsmast We’re excited to share that Bonfire and @newsmast are working together. We’re collaborating across several key areas: 🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire 🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels mobile app and […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Bonfire is one of the most exciting projects in the ActivityPub ecosystem, whilst Newsmast brings experience in community-building, advocacy, and outreach through projects like channel.org. You can learn more about Bonfire's Mosaic project here: bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic/

We’re collaborating across several key areas: 🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire 🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire 🌌 Partnering to offer services for organisations around Bonfire’s Mosaic initiative

Newsmast × Bonfire We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy are working together! #Announcement #SocialWeb #Fediverse

Two new profile widgets coming in the next #OpenScience flavour release: 📄 Most Recent Publication: showcase your latest work ⭐ Most Cited Publication: highlight your most cited publication 🔧 Quantitative metrics now hidden by default while we consider […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

As we integrate #OpenAlex data into the #Bonfire #OpenScience flavor, we're displaying familiar metrics: works count, citations, h-index, research topics, institutional affiliations... These might be exactly what you need, or perhaps just a starting point […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

_noticing is my way of opposing_ fojournal.org/interview/anna...

Disinfo campaigns, coordinated abuse, spam - they don’t stop at one instance. In IFTAS Connect, moderators and community managers share alerts across the network. Early warning means stronger resilience. Shared knowledge means less stress. https://connect.iftas.org/forums/ #fedimods […]

Summer in the UK usually involves a visit to the pub 🍻 At the Newsmast Foundation, we're spending our summer at a different kind of pub - Activity Pub (but yeah, we'll probably be at the other kind once or twice too)! The structure of the AP protocol means […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

🌊 Exciting news! Crowdinblue - a mission-led initiative bridging water solutions with funding - has chosen #Bonfire to build their federated community space! Together, we're designing custom extensions to connect water projects with impact investors and […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

If you want the Fediverse to succeed, you need to step out and understand why other folks aren't joining. Sure, you can post negatively about the alternatives using an ActivityPub account where no one else can see it, or you can go to the other sites and tell them why you look down upon them […]

@bonfire hey @maeool have you seen this? would really love to help get people thinking about how we can get fediverse reviews into @cartes_app and all these little steps people are making lately with location integration are steps on the same path

We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism. Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby. Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Taking a quick detour from our 1.0rc3 milestone work! 🛤️ This morning we added a small but meaningful feature: 🔗 Link previews now display the author's fediverse account when available. ➡️ Next up: Author attribution controls in Bonfire's verification […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

What if you could keep using the tools built for your needs while opening them to your community or the broader fediverse on your terms? With Mosaic, we partner with you to build custom Bonfire extensions that connect your existing tools to the fediverse. 📣 Details […]

We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing. Of […]

we have 3 years to create a common transnational infrastructure to defeat Elon Musk American party

Anyone around who tried @bonfire around? Looks very promising! https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/social/

Haven't turned on Federation yet, but my Bonfire instance is looking good. My second install of Bonfire. I can tell you two things: Installation was much easier this time, and performance is much better. One note, Bonfire recommends a hungry 8 GB of memory […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Whoops, pressed save before I edited the working title. Anyway, new blog post: https://jaz.co.uk/2025/07/01/digital-equity/

Wow, can't believe I missed that @bonfire now supports long-form articles, RSS/Atom support, *and* has an "Articles" feed builder preset. This is...starting to feel like an endgame platform for me. Full update here: https://bonfire.cafe/post/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1

Here is the direct link for those looking to join the install party (starting now!): https://meet.jit.si/bonfire-install-party

> "Inspired by @evan 's recent article on advancing long-form text in the social web, we've taken the leap and developed our first prototype for publishing and reading articles on Bonfire, based on the FEP-b2b8 draft specification." Here the article on how we are implementing articles in […]

Reminder that today is our first install party, about 3h20 from the time of this post! https://mobilizon.libretic.fr/events/c0c0b536-5216-412b-a277-1dadead06997

🔥 Bonfire Install Party #1 – Get your fediverse instance running! Bonfire (@bonfire) seems to align technologically with many of the values which I am trying to promote with the #communitariumproject* (and with the more general approach of #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity ). Unfortunately, I have […]

🚀 Our first online install party is happening! Join us this Friday to set up your own Bonfire instance 🔥 We’ll focus on setting up an instance with @coopcloud, answer questions, and support each other along the way. 📅 Friday 26 June at 15:30 UTC 📍 Details […]

🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language? We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release! No coding needed — just a love of words. 🔥 Join here […]

🔥 Want to start your own Bonfire instance? We’re hosting online install parties, come set up your server alongside others! Bring your questions and curiosity, and we’ll figure it out together and support each other through the process. ✅ Ideally have a (sub)domain + server with DNS set up, or […]

Anyone considering setting up a @bonfire instance?

The recordings of the keynotes, and the movie premiere, from FediForum June 2025 are now online. You can find them from https://fediforum.org/, our PeerTube https://spectra.video/@fediforum and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlI78hhgYh_oSg8Wws2m66YuRObWa7lJf channels […]

Imagine a digital space that aggregates, organizes, and empowers you to act on any activity published across the fediverse. With Bonfire, you can now add an "Events" feed to your sidebar—pulling in all events from users you follow on #mobilizon and #gancio, unified in one place. That's just a […]

From our latest post https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_rc/ **Circles** A circle is simply a list of people. Bonfire includes default circles like “local users” or “people I follow”, and you can define your own, e.g. "friends", "mutual aid crew" or "monster movie fans." Circles […]

@dansup how could we have bonfire servers on fedidb be linked to the correct app? 🙏 https://fedidb.com/servers/bonfire.cafe