The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups. There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups […]

We hope this will enable the fediverse to become a safer space for activists and communities to organise, coordinate, and collaborate meaningfully. By making secure, user-friendly messaging a core part of the fediverse, we can help lay the groundwork for decentralised networks where people can […]

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/ Big news for the #fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #activitypub. @swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations. Bonfire is proud to be one of […]

⏳ Just a few hours left! 🔥 We're in the final stretch of the Bonfire crowdfund. Help unlock new features for community-run spaces in the #fediverse! Every share or contribution makes a real difference. Support or boost before time runs out […]

Good news everyone! We hit our first milestone: maintenance is 100% funded. Thank you all ❤️ Next up: unlock the stretch goal to co‑design federated groups: community‑owned spaces to organise across the fediverse, with no server or platform lock‑in. Read about why this matters and how it can […]

2/2 Document with some examples posts you can share (feel free to customise!): https://hackmd.io/@mayel/ByB9Qvnbbg Link to our crowdfunding campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=gv8xxpEcZ0SiY6v8fMsJXQ

Do you want to help people escape Big Tech and join the open social web? We need help to boost the Bonfire campaign. With #givingtuesday momentum is on our side, but most people stuck on enshitified platforms only see content from people still active there. If that's you, pick a template below […]

Bonfire isn’t easy to pin down, and that’s the point! We seek to enable a tapestry of social spaces, all built from shared building blocks but diverging in flavour, practice, and purpose. We gathered a whole collection of answers from across the fediverse: 👉 […]

Acabo de postar um texto, inspirado na história dos softwares livres, e citando o @bonfire - sobre a necessidade de quebrarmos o "código" da escola, para que seja possível que as comunidades possam adaptá-la às suas necessidades e potencialidades […]

Cómo explicar las 4 libertades del #softwarelibre a los niños y niñas. 😜 #info necesaria https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2025/11/17/como-explicar-las-4-libertades-del-software-libre-a-los-ninos-y-ninas/

@bonfire is doing some of the most interesting work on the open social internet, and they're doing it in the most exhilarating ways. I am delighted to be even a little bit involved in the work they have planned: https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

Also, any team who makes THIS as their crowdfunding campaign launch video has my axe. https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=UScVLqSJJkKpZWg_Lnsg7w

Donated to Bonfire. @bonfire is like Lego you can use to facilitate different types of online spaces & communities. @publicspaces wrote about them in '22: https://publicspaces.net/2022/12/14/bonfire-social-on-your-own-terms/ Now they've launched #bonfire Social 1 .0 & are busy working on […]

A esquizoanálise, embora esteja emergindo fortemente no campo da psicologia, principalmente no Brasil, é, na verdade, muito mais que uma “teoria psicológica”. Ela é, antes de tudo, uma filosofia, um modo de vida, uma maneira de perceber e compreender a realidade, e não apenas o aspecto […]

🔥 Did you know you can fully customize your Bonfire sidebar? Pick the feeds you want, reorder everything, move sections around. Don't let the power of the default dictate your experience, make the interface adapt to your needs! See the video: https://www.tella.tv/video/ivans-video-063e And see […]

🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances. You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It […]

🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire! The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to: ✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all. ✨ Quote — or request […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

📣 Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 just dropped! This latest release puts data portability and anti-enshittification front and center. Read what's new: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

De una pantalla rota a una batería dañada: guías y plataformas para reparar dispositivos en casa. Ante el aumento de basura electrónica, algunas webs y voluntarios ofrecen ayuda para arreglar móviles, electrodomésticos y otros aparatos. #info #sustentabilidad […]

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 […]

"The #ruling, which goes into effect within weeks, mandates tech giants including Google, X, and Meta to monitor and remove content involving hate speech, racism, and incitement to violence. If the companies can show they took steps to remove such content expeditiously, they will not be held […]

🚨 Tá no ar: www.soberania.digital 🌐 O futuro do Brasil está em jogo! Nos dias 8 e 9 de julho, vamos reunir artistas, cientistas, hackers, movimentos e parlamentares pra lançar o Plano Nacional pela Soberania Digital. Começamos com uma Aula Pública, depois […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Las Redes Sociales como deberían ser por @matizeta "Creo que es tiempo de abordar en las escuelas, desde los más pequeños hasta los adultos este tema para tener más conciencia digital, para que a la hora de elegir, seleccionemos los menos dañino y quizás así volver a tener una Internet como la […]

🌐 ¿Puedes ayudar a traducir Bonfire? Buscamos traductores o personas bilingües para ayudar a localizar las extensiones y la interfaz de Bonfire a tantos idiomas como sea posible — ¡especialmente antes de la versión 1.0! No se necesita saber programar — solo amor por las palabras. 🔥 Únete aquí […]

🔥 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 […]

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 […]

"ActivityPub is more than a protocol or a fancy feature; it’s a statement that the open web still matters." 🌐🚀 https://activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-up-for-expansion/

While #mastodon is what put #activitypub on the map, #bonfire might be the design that will make the #fediverse a real place rather than some variation of the known social media paradigms. A project to watch. techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/b...

🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed! Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control? Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement […]

Todas hacemos del #fediverso una red más conectada. Es el momento de revalorizar nuestra atención, enfocando nuestro interés y curiosidad en proyectos alternativos de redes sociales. #DerechosDigitalesColectivos https://sursiendo.org/2024/08/todas-hacemos-del-fediverso-una-red-mas-conectada/

Últimamente encontramos que muchas organizaciones trabajando en la defensa de los #derechosdigitales, la libertad de expresión y la autonomía tecnológica utilizamos las plataformas de redes sociales privativas y comerciales como una de las principales herramientas para nuestro activismo y […]

Turns out some old (and new) friends were feeling the same way, so we got a crew together from the Old Days and we spun up a collective, got fiscal hosting with Raft Foundation (badasses!), and spent a couple of months building processes and testing ways to work and things to make, and now we're […]

"Se é a primeira que prevalece, você está sendo pensado por uma estrutura discursiva e sensível, baseada num saber construído ao longo de alguns séculos, que está dando forma à sua maneira de pensar, sentir, agir e compreender a sua realidade escolar." […]

As we approach the release of Bonfire 1.0, this isn’t your typical launch announcement. Instead, it’s a moment to reflect on how we’ve built Bonfire, a roadmap of values, methods, and intentions – and an invitation to define what comes next. In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve […]

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

"Quando Paulo Freire nos apontou, com toda a clareza, que a nossa educação não é libertadora — nunca foi —, ele partia de uma perspectiva filosófica, olhando para o todo. Nos nossos dias, cada vez mais tenho pensado que é tempo de olhar para o real diversificando as perspectivas, multiplicando […]

New at wreckage/salvage: Vernacular institutions, part one. New project. Old projects. Lots of projects. Bruegel? Bruegel. The struggle with email this month has been so absurd and I hope this makes it to your inboxes if you've signed up. https://www.wrecka.ge/the-work-at-hand/

Telar: tecnologías populares para el cuidado, la autonomía y la vida colectiva. No dejes de leer nuestra más reciente #entrevista de la serie "Las personas detrás de las #tecnologías que queremos" […]

1/ GreatApe is a conversations platform for the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo). Here is what it is like to log into GreatApe. In this case, using Mastodon. ... #deso #fediverse #greatape #mastodon

"The problem with [DNS-based verification on Bluesky] is then you get into explaining DNS records to Flavor Flav which seems sub-optimal." -Rudy Fraser https://blog.rudyfraser.com/an-internet-of-many-autonomous-communities/

Paraibana genial. Cátia de França. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdoKuEQYgU

Social Web developers need to take note: the "social" part is the most ignored, underdeveloped and unexplored part of all of the work we do and if it can't do the work of helping address things that Trudy mentioned (if technology can live to its title of "helping people"), it might be best to […]

"Using video recording technology, the citizens of Rosedale, once referred to as "the rear end of Alberta" by a frustrated citizen, pulled themselves together as a community. They formed a citizens' action committee, cleaned up the town, built a park, and negotiated with the government to […]

"This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal neighbourhood. A citizen's committee filmed people's concerns and then played back the tapes for the community. Upon recognizing their common problems, people […]

New #hometown release is now available! v4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2 incorporates a Mastodon security patch and also some bugfixes from the Hometown community. More info at the release notes as always. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.2.17%2Bhometown-1.1.2

Fragments of Paradise | The Jonas Mekas Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqkSEYiCrQI

The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences #onlinecommunities #socialmedia https://www.theverge.com/press-room/617654/internet-community-future-research

Inspiração para "Redes Sociais Livres": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPLrWLzP2g #rádioslivres #félixguattari #redessociaislivres #redessociaislocais #socialmedia #localsocialmedia #freeradio

Neste texto tento situar o nosso contexto atual e propor algumas lições que o movimento das Rádios Livres e os movimentos lutam por terra e território têm a nos ensinar sobre a necessidade de ocuparmos os territórios do mundo virtual com a ajuda do fediverso […]