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 […]

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testing how quoting from #bonfire looks from #mastodon bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01K...

@phanpy@hachyderm.io never stops surprising me with small but meaningful UX details... just saw how it shows alt descriptions as footnotes below uploaded media, and i want to do the same in bonfire... chapeau @cheeaun@mastodon.social 🎩

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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 […]

My latest blog post in the "Million Fediverses" series: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/05/12/there-are-a-million-fediverses-some-of-them-are-louder-than-others/

just discovered another super interesting and needed work done by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social platform.coop/blog/toward-wo... "Aiming to shift control of delivery work away from a single entity, OpenCourier is a protocol that defines data formatting and communication across a […]

a great article by @thisismissem@hachyderm.io on going beyond binary approach to federation... " > However, we've been presented with a false dichotomy here: we don't need to operate in a world where we either allow everything until blocked, or block everything until we allow it. There are other […]

**Resisting the Monoculture of the Mind, Donna Haraway in conversation with Laura Flanders** lauraflanders.org/donna-hara...

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]

Appena presi 2 biglietti per i Casino Royale il 28 Maggio al Monk (Roma) - Sempre più vicino Reloaded Tour, un album che ascolto ininterrottamente da buoni 20 anni...

At #AtmosphereConf today, I'll be talking about our work at @anew.social building Bridgy, breaking down walls, and centering people, not platforms. Hope to see you at Great Hall South @ 4pm 🌐

Building Bridgy, Not Walls

A breakdown of improvements in multi-protocol services, including Bridgy Fed and Bounce, and where those services are going in 2026. Some things include: 1. Direct integrations with platforms + clien...

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Oggi prima giornata di Aurora tutta sola al Maneggio, anche primo vero giorno di primavera 🌱 Mentre tornavamo a casa assieme, abbiamo messo "Colori" di Piotta e Remo Remotti, o come lo chiama rory, quello scemotto di remo remotti... momenti preziosissimi youtube.com/watch?v=qCnTCttK...

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 […]

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Here's these posts in blog article form: https://writings.thisismissem.social/how-standards-are-made/

How Standards Are Made

Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percentage of people in my mentions on the fediverse right now that are accusing me of horrible things

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I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public […]

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 […]

🚄 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 […]

**"sabato 24 gennaio mobilitazioni in tutto il mondo** per difendere la rivoluzione del Rojava e il progetto del confederalismo democratico. Non è un appello rituale, né una convocazione simbolica. È una richiesta urgente di solidarietà mentre **Kobane** è di nuovo accerchiata, mentre la linea […]

In a new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administration and the European far […]

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 […]

that's a great splash screen to start a documentary Adam Curtis: Can't get you out of my head (free on youtube) #davidGraeber

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RE: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/01/13/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-thousand-ways-to-join-it/ Love this collab between toot.wales and @newsmast to make joining the Fediverse simpler 🙏🏼

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