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I see that Bonfire uses the ampersand for its group notation
@LiquidParasyte that's a placeholder, it might end up being @ or ! or whatever...
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Today is announcement day 🔥
Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.
A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.
Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe
Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/
Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub
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🔥 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, PGP-encrypted emails, and many UX improvements and fixes.
If you're running an instance and want to give it a go, please let us know if you run into any issues.
Full changelog: docs.bonfirenetworks.org/cha...
testing archipelago mode
where is the edit function 😁
@k8u oops thanks, that seems to be a new bug!
Hello bonfire, i'm new here~ Chinese and English are fine.
oh my, how can i use the custome emoji i just added 😁
is this instance didn't federate ? #fediverse
@k8u custom emojis are still a work-in-progress
Why does the "Notifications" badge tell me that there is a new notification - when the list is empty?
A couple of days ago I marked all notifications as "Read", so I am abit puzzled by this.
@jrossstocholm That means there's no recent notifications, you can click the 'show all' button to load older ones.
That may be due to a recent refactor with how notification are stored (now linked to the account rather than the user profile).
Hi all here. Is there anywhere where I can see who I am following?
@gilles you can find the link in the top-right menu on your profile: campground.bonfire.cafe/@gil...
@ivan and @mayel, if I may suggest a feature:
Maybe we could have parameters for choosing audience in a feed (e.g. Exclude/Include/Only for Followers, Following, etc). I want to make changes to the Following feed, but they don't stick if I save because it comes an unfiltered feed without any of the exclusive parameters the built-in Following feed has.
@LiquidParasyte thanks for the suggestion! that's on the todo list: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
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@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 @coyote @Ianp5a @gilles @ivan Sort of yeah! If you're familiar with Linux you could also compare bonfire flavours to Linux distributions. They may share a lot of the same software but make different choices about what's included, the default configs, etc. Also some flavours are created/maintained by us and some will be governed autonomously by other groups...
Hi all, I'm interested in enabling Drupal websites to be able to post to bonfire social instances. I have already done this for Mastodon, and I found this issue about compatibility with the Mastodon API: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
I see that there is already a checkmark next to posts in there. I am looking to test if my mastodon Drupal module already works for posting to bonfire via the API. Mastodon provides an interface for administering api access for your applications, and generates client secrets, keys, and access tokens. I am curious about whether this is intended to be core functionality or dependent on an extension, and looking for comments about when this might be possible or how to do it if it already is. Thanks! Looking forward to playing around more with bonfire and following its growth.
@megakeegman hey yeah we're working on adding support for the Mastodon API but it's a work in progress and not quite ready to use (you should be able to authenticate at least and maybe a few other things for now)
Here's another UI oddity I just tripped over: While exploring settings, I was in Advanced and found Federation Status. Is this intended for a normal "User" to see?
I'm attaching two screenshots. One shows presumably the results of my activity federating (3 issues Need Attention). When I clicked on "Refresh" though, i got the second screenshot, with THOUSANDS of issues that need attention. Possibly a very confusing thing for a normal user to see?
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@johannab Thanks for pointing out! It is indeed a bug, tracking it here: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1601
@johannab I didn't know that circles could federate, but I guess that makes sense
To clarify, private circles (which all circles are by default) do not federate, and shared circles currently don't either (though the circle feed and member list can be viewed by people who aren't a user of your instance if shared publically). We're looking at Mastodon's draft proposal (starter packs FEP) as a way to potentially federated shared circles in the future though: https://github.com/mastodon/featured_collections
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From our indieweb account indieweb.social/@bonfire/115...
FIGHT THE DEFAULTS! ✊️
🔥 Did you know you can fully customize your Bonfire sidebar?
Pick the feeds you want, reorder everything, move sections around. Don't let the power of the default dictate your experience, make the interface adapt to your needs!
See the video:
tella.tv/video/ivans-video-0...
And see you at #Fediforum later today!
#enshittification #UX #defaults
@gilles @ivan We have a work-in-progress implementation of groups but that will be in the community flavour: bonfirenetworks.org/apps/
