Hi @mayel how are things?

Is Bonfire still in beta testing? #askfedi

Hi @johannab sorry I saw a few of your posts and just wanted to say hello because I'm new here on #bonfire.

I signed up to try out #Bonfire social platform

#introduction

Hi all my name is Stu. I am an engineer that builds stainless steel conveyor guards with solidworks and autocad .

I love all technology and all sorts of music.

I love playing golf. I also love open source software and applications and decentralized social media.

@coyote @Ianp5a @mayel @gilles @ivan ​I found this guide that helped my understand. Thank you for pitching in 😊🙏.

docs.bonfirenetworks.org/bou...

@coyote @Ianp5a @mayel @gilles @ivan I am trying really hard to understand bonfire 😊.

When you say that "Bonfire community" will have groups - does that mean that it will be a different version of Bonfire - and different from "Bonfire social"?

So, for comparisons to #bigtech:

Bonfire Social --> Twitter (micro-blogging)
Bonfire Community --> Facebook​

I am in no way saying that it is a bad thing, but just to compare, pixelfed is the brand name of the platform where users can chose where to sign up. But it's the same app. But bonfire will more likely be a "powered by bonfire" where whatever brand name will be on top and bonfire will be the underlying infrastructure/core?

A bit like PPBoard was back in the day 😊

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pbboard/

@jrossstocholm

I don't know exactly how things work on Facebook because I never had an account there; my own frame of reference is Dreamwidth, where there are access lists and communities. Access lists are a way to restrict certain posts to your account as viewable to only certain users you've manually chosen. Communities are themed groups of users with moderators where generally members can make posts to share with others in the community. To me these are two very different features, but they're both valuable.

hello world, etc

Test of posting to open circle

@coyote ​Thank you.

For me, as a non-tech person, I find it tricky to see which kind of service would suit me best. But from what I can see and read, Bonfire looks like it's going to have what many people want. Will wait to see what happens.

@coyote @Ianp5a @mayel @gilles @ivan ​but isn't that essentially the same thing? I know that groups on Facebook has many other features - but the idea of creating a group of people that can share ideas is the same.

Anyone on here know how to make one of those link preview cards? I've seen posts on here that have them, but my own testing has proven unsuccessful.

@pjf ​From what I've seen, there's overlap and there's some differences. Mastodon is a kind of software for making websites. Bonfire is also software for making websites. The plan for Bonfire is to work on adding some features that Mastodon doesn't have, like groups, which I'm in favor of. You can find more information on their fundraiser page: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bo...

Huge congrats @mayel & @ivan + contributors!

Hi! After seeing a post on #Mastodon, I thought I'd make a profile here. At the moment, like others, I'm unsure how different this is to Mastodon, particularly as I'm not a tech person at all.

I realise that this isn't federated to Mastodon (yet?), but if it does, I imagine having a profile here and a profile on Mastodon would be redundant (?) – unless users want to have more than one profile, which I know many do (and I have more than one, too). And another thing, is there an app for this I can download for my phone?

@jrossstocholm

My understanding is that Circles are how you set the privacy levels or interaction permissions for individual posts, which is a different kind of feature from Facebook groups.

@Ianp5a @mayel @gilles @ivan isn't that what "Circles" on bonfire are supposed to do?​

If we want ppl to move from #bigtech (and I belive that we want this) we need to provide an alternative - that is on-par with the most important parts of e.g., Facebook. One of those important parts is indeed "groups". If this is not present, noone will move.

Btw, I created a Circle - but cannot figure out how to post to that circle?

Still looking for reasons

First post on #bonfire.

Circle created.

Question: I assume that Circles are for bonfire what groups is for Facebook. So, how does one post to a circle?