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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Originally published on Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy blog, this article by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social reflects on a semester of collaboration with Bonfire. Together, we explored how Governance Cards could help communities describe how they organise and […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

We’re delighted to share that our talk: “Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire” has been accepted for the Open Source Conference Luxembourg 🎉 ! We’re looking forward to discussing why digital sovereignty requires more than […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos. We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection. Built around open Fediverse […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Oooh, neat -- @Bonfire has officially released its #Communities module: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-f… I backed the project, and I'm overjoyed to see it coming to fruition. The world *desperately* needs a good open-source, open-network, open-community alternative to […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

In solidarity with #AutisticiInventati. Please join us in signing the open letter and send it to your representatives: inventati.org/campaign/open_... A/I's mission has always been clear, and for more than twenty years it has inspired generations of hackers and activists in Italy and around […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

We’re gathering around a fire 🔥 **Around the Bonfire** is our new newsletter: a digest of releases, community stories, collaborations, and everything else taking shape around Bonfire. We’ll send it when there’s a new release, but never more than once a month […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Bonfire Social 1.0.7 is out 🔥 It includes a new default UI, reworked discussions, faster and more flexible feeds, better mobile navigation, and fixes across federation, accessibility, publishing and admin tools. We’re also sharing our bikemap for what’s next: public federated groups, better […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Turn your #Ghost publication into a thriving community with Bonfire. Automatically import all your Ghost articles into dedicated Bonfire groups and topics while preserving the membership tiers you’ve already set up. Readers can sign in to your Bonfire instance with their Ghost account, then […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles. You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you. Each team member signs in with their usual […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱 Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet. It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Prints for our crowdfunding backers are finally on their way 💛 Open-edition posters and handmade silkscreens are shipping, with workshops coming next. Thank you for your patience and for making this possible. We’ve also opened our special merchandising page with a few signed, numbered […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Alle #Jacobin Leser:innen finden mich nun auch auf dem sozialen Netzwerk des Magazins! jacobin.social/@ErikUden Kommt gerne auch her — nicht lange ist es hin, dann wird es aber dem Fediverse geöffnet sein!

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Die Linke und Mastodon 🚩 Socialize the Social Network 🦣!

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

What should digital infrastructure for open science look like, and more importantly, who should shape it? Universities and scholarly communities are starting to explore new directions together. This includes a living lab at Warwick, governance research with Princeton HCI and experiments with […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

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 […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Together with @AvSchroeder we had a lovely chat with @jorgeluis about 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 […]

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Tommi 🤯 @tommi.pan.rent.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

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 […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

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

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

@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]

fediverse.observer chart showing growth from 18,000 federating services in August 2025 to 58,000 in July 2026

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

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 […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

🔥 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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FediForum @fediforum.org · 18/05/2026

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

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

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 […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

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 […]

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

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 […]

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

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...

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

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]

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Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

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! coopcloud.tech/blog/march-2025-equi… – 3wordchant #CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech #OpenSource

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

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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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

RE: toot.wales/@teamtoot/11605853752607… 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 […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

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]

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Gjalt-Jorn Peters @matherion.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

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

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 02/02/2026

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 […]

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Andy Piper @andypiper.org · 31/01/2026

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 […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

🚄 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 […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

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 […]

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ozoned @ozoned.btfree.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

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 […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

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 […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/11/2025

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/

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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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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22/10/2025

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...

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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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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

🔥 More Anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire ✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts. ✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

## October 2025 community update We’re delighted to share the latest and greatest from Co-op Cloud 🤘 It seems safe to say that *a lot* has happened! Grab a `$geographic_location_appropriate_temperature` beverage and enjoy 🎉 coopcloud.tech/blog/oct-2025-update 🫡

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