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Carlos Cámara @ccamara.bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Very excited to officially kickstart our @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe server at Warwick and to be able to codesign it with fellow researchers! #Bonfire #ActivityPub #OpenScience #Codesign bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk/pu...

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

@renchap@oisaur.com nice catching up at the conference! could you please point us to info about federation replies under a thread collection instead of needing backfilling? it may also turn out to be useful for e2ee spec... cc @ivan @Bonfire

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io I tried to address your first point here: github.com/swicg/activitypub... Not sure I understand why you say "server will end up with that information in cleartext at some point" though? @evan@cosocial.ca

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This issue is intended as a brainstorming discussions based on several comments by people such as @ThisIsMissEm from the Trust and Safety task force such as "E2EE protocol should not allow a server...

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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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Paul Fuxjaeger @cypherhippie.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

RE: bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01KQETGFGP… hey y'all #FediForum ☀️ Who is up for a session on the '+1' concept/strategy and its potential further development? (AFIAK +1 was coined in the 'contemporary open social web context' by @rstockm, see […]

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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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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

If you're attending #FediForum let's have a discussion tomorrow around this open access paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37723... which argues that decentralized platforms like the Fediverse focus on governing within communities, but ignore the frictions between them. From workshops with 24 […]

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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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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

As of September 2026, Google will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. keepandroidopen.org @keepandroidopen@techhub.social #keepandroidopen

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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]

Poster for an event: I Love Free Software Day 2026

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu how did you try disabling locales?

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

@julian@activitypub.space Hi yes we send to sharedInbox when there's more than one recipient on that instance, otherwise direct to to the user's inbox. @mayel@sunbeam.city

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

“Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.” ― Ursula K. LeGuin

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and _not to answer them_ : this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Mayel @mayel.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

test mention @test@d8aa4d08faa052.lhr.life

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