We’re delighted that the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is following Bonfire’s evolution with such interest. The EEF supports the #Erlang, #Elixir, and wider #BEAM community, which is the ecosystem behind the technology Bonfire is built with. The foundation plans to deploy Bonfire and explore how […]

Together with @AvSchroeder we had a lovely chat with @jorgeluis about https://openscience.network It's a particular flavor of @Bonfire, aiming to meet the needs of researchers & in the early stages of development. I think it's a very worthwhile project (mostly for my potential second account […]

A lot of overlap of thinking between @blackskyweb.xyz's Acorn and what @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy is doing with communities 👀

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific pu...

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There is too much tech/features talk and too little UI/UX or just “beauty” talk in the Fediverse. Let’s please take some time to appreciate how gorgeous @Bonfire’s interface and the design choices are. The article sharing the Jacobin case study is _so cool_! #UI #UX #beauty #Fediverse […]

Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge. https://www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating/

@Bonfire The network grows and we've tripled the number of federating services in the past 12 months. Opt-in or selective federation is the only way forward for many communities. No-one can individually vet and monitor 58,000 domains. Kudos to @Bonfire […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 **Archipelago mode** means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to **federate** _***only***_ **with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers**. Communities can link up into an […]

🔥 The Bonfire Social 1.0.5 release candidate is out! This one brings archipelago mode (opt-in, allow-list federation for tightly-knit communities and networks), a more lightweight search backend (see changelog for migration steps), broadcasting announcements, another embeddable widget […]

Bonfire Mosaic is co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse.They showed off federated groups and new publisher tools, including embeddable federated comment threads for blogs and CMS sites, at the most recent #FediForum. 1/2

Bonfire Mosaic is co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse.They showed off federated groups and new publisher tools, including embeddable federated comment threads for blogs and CMS sites, at the most recent #FediForum. By Ivan Minutillo & Mayel de […]

We just released Bonfire Social 1.0.3 🔥 with dozens of bug fixes and UX improvements, plus: * Federated comments embeddable on any web page. * Deep Ghost integration: SSO, membership tier sync, and automatic article import. * New dashboard widgets: spotlight, polls closing soon, top […]

Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥 We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website. Built on our modular […]

The paper Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media by @s0hw@hci.social @andresmh@hci.social and colleagues at hci.princeton.edu (which we will discuss at #FediForum today) takes on a tension at the heart of decentralised social media. The fediverse promises to […]

Mayel@mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

Today at #FediForum we'll have a discussion with some of the co-authors of the academic paper Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media. There's no better time to read this paper! bonfire.cafe/post/01KQDCWGK0...

Today at #FediForum we'll have a discussion with some of the co-authors of the academic paper Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media. There's no better time to read this paper! bonfire.cafe/post/01KQDCWGK0...

On Saturday May 9th in Rome, as part of the Nina Festival, we're hosting a workshop to _think with_ Bonfire, exploring and co-designing federated digital spaces for caring for our communities. Together with @reclaimthetech@mastodon.uno, Zero81, Scift Lab and […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

Once again, a truly astonishing amount of stuff has been happening with Co-op Cloud since our last blog post in October. Read about it here! https://coopcloud.tech/blog/march-2025-equinox – 3wordchant #CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech #OpenSource

We just **released Bonfire 1.0.2** , an update focused on giving you a more stable and reliable experience. We're also heads-down working with **several communities who are setting up their own Bonfire servers**. Plus updates on **end to end encryption** and **federated groups**. More details […]

RE: https://toot.wales/@teamtoot/116058537526076652 I'm so incredibly proud of what we’re building at @teamtoot - this isn't just another platform, it’s a community-owned space where the entire team works hard to keep a welcome. We have 9 spots left for the launch event in #Cardiff - I’d love […]

Tîm Tŵt Staff@teamtoot.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 6mo ago

📢 Final Call: Only 9 spots left for our launch event! We’re bringing together the people building #BetterSocial for #Wales .. and the UK ... and the world 😉 If you're within striking distance of #Cardiff on Feb 28th, join us! Community members, Fediverse […] [Original post on toot.wales]

If you're in Amsterdam this Saturday join us for reading of _**Ada& Zangemann**_ by @kirschner@mastodon.social & Sandra Brandstätter in English and in Dutch, followed by a conversation about **Free Software maintenance as care work** , together with @mayel from […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

🔥 There's still some time to join the crowdfunding for @Bonfire and contribute to building a better world! 🤩 https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community (if you don't know about Bonfire yet: it's an awesome project building a network that's community-governed, open, built for […]

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't […]

Some nice themes running through the #SocialWeb Devroom at #FOSDEM: storytelling from different national and international contexts (Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Europe); new apps and ideas (badgefed, splinter, FASPs, Spritely); building infrastructure and foundational tech (Bonfire, Fedify […]

🚄 The Bonfire team is rolling into Brussels for FOSDEM 2026! Come find us at one of Europe’s biggest free software gatherings, with over 8,000 people, dozens of devrooms, and all things open source. We’re giving two talks this weekend (and both will be livestreamed at the links below, so you […]

Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates: **Bonfire 1.0.1 is out!** 🎉 This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first […]

Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates: **Bonfire 1.0.1 is out!** 🎉 This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first […]

I've been giving lots of feedback to the @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe guys. They're taking things up SUPER fast. It's been absolutely incredible. I recommend folks try out Bonfire, because it's honestly shaping up to be the one stop shop platform for social networking, consuming news, eventually […]

Happy holidays, fediverse! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us […]

I'm so psyched about @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy's work on making the open social internet good for real communities by putting in the culture work right from the very beginning. I'm a scavenger and a pragmatist *and also* I think the way we do things matters. www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

Sparks fly up

Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.

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I wrote about tensions and troubles for Bluesky on @techpolicypress.bsky.social and then I wrote about the TPP piece on wrecka.ge and now I am posting about it the post on Bluesky. Look at this cloud. www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skie...

Clouded Skies for Open Networks

Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for Tech Policy Press and set it aside to cool befo...

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