@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...

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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.

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?

@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?

@mayel @gilles @ivan ​

Groups is what is missing from Mastodon. Real Groups that is. Where posts inside a group stay inside a group. You join or leave the group if you are not interested in that topic. Same as Matrix Rooms or Telgram groups. Currently Mastodon is just a stream of announcements and no real social connection. Individual threads are OK. But you'll never find that thread again after a few days.

Groups mean people can post in detail on that topic without woryying it'll bore their followers. People have multiple different topics that need not overlap.

Groups make a social connection. You'll get to know people.

Revisiting this site again after seeing [this post by Erin Kissane](https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up). Same questions apply.

Hello! First public post here. I have some questions and feedback about the project.

For reference, I'm someone who has never made an account on the Fediverse for a number of reasons -- one of which being that unfortunately a lot of the Fediverse is modeled off of Twitter, and what I look for in a website is more along the lines of Dreamwidth. What caught my eye about Bonfire is the rejection of venture capital, the interest in prosocial design, the ability to make long posts, and the circles feature, which sounds a lot like Dreamwidth's custom access filters.

So on that note, I'd like to ask about the points of reference and overall vision for Bonfire. It looks like Bonfire Social was modeled after Mastodon in some ways, and I'm curious about what other websites, software, or platforms you'd be willing to draw on for inspiration.

For instance...

1) Can you say more about the vision for the "groups" feature? I can't tell from the description if I should be picturing something like traditional forums or if it's something more like Reddit subreddits and Dreamwidth communities.

2) So far I can't tell if there's already a blacklist/filtering feature or plans to add one. I would hope so, given the emphasis on customization. To make blacklists more effective, I think it would make sense to give tags a separate text field, like on Tumblr and Pillowfort, since Twitter-style inline tags tend to lead people to tag less often (which makes blacklists less effective).

3) I would also be strongly interested in Bonfire adding more comment controls like the ones on Dreamwidth, Pillowfort, and Wordpress, which I think are an important prosocial measure and something sorely lacking on Mastodon. Is that something you'd be willing to add to your roadmap?

Davvero è federato? Non riesco a trovarmi. /CC @tassoman@orwell.fun

Great to see so much development @ivan !

I have a qustion for a specific use case (could also ask this somewhere else, but why not here):

Say, I set up a rather local-focused bonfire instance, for example, inviting all people from my small village to have an account. I would like to be able to:
1) Post my opinion about, say, synthesizers to be read by people from all known instances. (and of course let all villager post about whatever they find interesting)
2) Allow villagers to post stuff about our village that is only visible for people in the village. For example, I could invite people for helping organizing a cleanup day in the village hall. If I understand correctly, this would be done by setting the boundary to local on my village instance.
3) On my instance, I would like to offer all accounts a default custom feed that only shows local stuff (as posted under point 2). Most villagers don't care about my opinion about synthesizers, they just wanna see what's going on in the village. (so, that is different from the current default "local" feed)

I would really love it when this third option would be possible. The literal example given here would be a serious use case, but I can think of many more.

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