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Public Interest Social Networks Bonfire is built by communities, for communities—rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your […] 🌉 bridged from bonfire.cafe/pub/actors/Bonfire on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13h

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz they've probably simply customised the `APP_NAME` environment variable. @misterdubs@coresignal.podmoodle.nohost.me

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Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Coming up this Thursday: An Introduction to Public-Interest Infrastructure with #CoopCloud, this Thursday 15th October @ 19 UTC Call link: jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying Calendar event […] [Original post on social.coop]

Pink, black, and white flyer.

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure with Co-operative Cloud

Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC

A public event reintroducing our project:

A community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of production-ready configurations for libre software apps, and human-friendly tooling to manage it all. Developed and managed by an international democratic federation.

Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg! Huge thanks to the amazing @_elena@mastodon.social and @Gina@fosstodon.org for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Coming to the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg today? @oscl@mastodon.opencloud.lu 🇱🇺 Come say hi! At 15:30 we'll talk about digital sovereignty, why it's more than a server, what is the ecosystem we're building towards and keep asking ourselves: where's […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany. Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@tommi@pan.rent @texttheater@mastodon.social Indeed, boundaries in bonfire differentiate between something being discoverable vs readable, allowing for "unlisted" content that can only be viewed by certain people and on the other hand "previewable" content that can be seen in feeds but not fully […]

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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]

a graphic with the title: Sovereignty is more than a server"

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

@laurenshof@indieweb.social credits to the amazing @coopcloud@social.coop crew 😊

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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]

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]

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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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@ErikUden@mastodon.de thanks for sharing this 💜 we'd also love to see more peopel experiment with it... it is currently used in production by jacobin.de ( powered by #ghost ) and of course on our blog ( powered by #11ty ) eg bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

Jacobin ist das linke Magazin für Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur – provokant, tiefgängig und einzigartig illustriert.

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Just learned of @Bonfire's “Telling” feature! :fediverse: bonfirenetworks.org/telling How come no one's talking about this? You can embed Fediverse replies even on _static_ blogs!

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The Telling — Federated Comments for the Open Web

Embed federated comment threads on any static site. Readers reply from Bonfire, Mastodon, or any ActivityPub account. No walled gardens, no surveillance.

Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@ErikUden@mastodon.de great news! here we share more about the behind the scene of working with #jacobin to codesign and build jacobin.social: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu... eager to hear your feedback and thoughts about it 😊

Lokale Aktivitäten entdecken · Jacobin.social

Jacobin Social ist die Community-Plattform von Jacobin – dem sozialistischen Magazin für Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.

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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!

Erik Uden (@ErikUden)

Die Linke und Mastodon 🚩 Socialize the Social Network 🦣!

Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

jacobin.social is a fully customized #Bonfire #ActivityPub server we built with Jacobin.de. It reflects Jacobin’s visual identity and lets readers interact with articles and authors according to their membership tier and much more... Jacobin explains the thinking behind the project here […]

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

@reflex@retrogaming.social I'm sorry but we have already replied to you several times and would appreciate your patience in the meantime, for reference: github.com/bonfire-networks/...

Feature Proposal: AI use disclosure · Issue #1783 · bonfire-networks/bonfire-app

Issue: The project contains agents.md and claude.md files, giving a presumption that vibecoding is taking place. As far as I can see there is no current AI use disclosure or AI use policy for this ...

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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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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Definitely! Would be great to have you all involved in these discussions: github.com/swicg/groups/issu... @quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy

Bridgeable interoperability with ATmospheric Groups · Issue #55 · swicg/groups

BlueSky announced a new communities feature for ATProto under development. Working on groups in ActivityPub at the same time as this development is happening in the ATProto community seems like a u...

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 27/07/2026

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

bonfirenetworks.org

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...

Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@quillmatiq.com@bsky.brid.gy @blackskyweb.xyz@bsky.brid.gy Yeah we love what Blacksky folks are doing ✊ We mentioned that and some of the differences with the likes of Bluesky in our eyes on this page: bonfirenetworks.org/about/ Also here's a blog post from today with what we've been building […]

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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

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 · 29/06/2026

@emanuelecariati@varese.social You're welcome to join localisation efforts at app.transifex.com/bonfire/bo... thanks!

explore.transifex.com

The Bonfire translation project on Transifex

Join Bonfire project in Transifex, and contribute to the world's largest localization community

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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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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu yeah good idea, the reason there's so many is that mastodon sends Delete activities far and wide to try and ensure no deleted posts linger on other servers, we've tried optimising that in the past with github.com/bonfire-networks/... but we have an open issue to tackle it […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu it's out now 😊

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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

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 […]

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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 · 12/05/2026

@csolisr@hub.azkware.net ah yeah it probably would have to built for (ideally on) your machine in this case

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

@csolisr@hub.azkware.net Which dependency did you see on AVX? our markdown renderer for example uses it when available has a fallback which should be enabled automatically when not available (otherwise you can force it with `MDEX_USE_LEGACY_ARTIFACTS=true`. In any case please provide more info […]

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

@liaizon@social.wake.st those are just placeholders, our goal is maximum interoperability while also extending what is possible, and we're participating in the W3C groups task force to define how things should work, please weigh in their if you have any suggestions: github.com/swicg/groups/issues

Issues · swicg/groups

Repository for the Groups Task Force of the SocialCG - Issues · swicg/groups

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

You can read more about our work on groups in this previous blog post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/wh... And if you're an #ActivityPub developer who's interested, please join the W3C task force discussions: github.com/swicg/groups/issues

bonfirenetworks.org

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 purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

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

@reflex@retrogaming.social Thanks for asking, it's something we're taking seriously. We're working on an AI policy for the project but want to do it thoughtfully and with care rather than rush something out, please bear with us. @fediforum@mastodon.social

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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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