Owen (@owen)

Owen

Joined: 31 Mar 2024

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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 conversations we need right now.
And thanks to @samvie@chaos.social to keep pushing the fediverse forwards ✊️

Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe yesterday

@mat@friendica.exon.name @news@wedistribute.org documented here for now: github.com/bonfire-networks/...

Feature Proposal: add a way for moderators to view the JSON of unsupported activity/object type · Issue #2394 · bonfire-networks/bonfire-app

Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe yesterday

@mat@friendica.exon.name @news@wedistribute.org good point, we can add a menu option for mods to view the full JSON

Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe yesterday

@mat@friendica.exon.name

Yeah the server stores the JSON for any objects that aren't implemented by any extension enabled on the instance, but also display those in feeds and threads, with a best effort to generate a preview based on looking for common metadata properties, so they can still be flagged and displayed in moderation queues.

@news@wedistribute.org

Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe yesterday

@gaetan@mediapart.social vous pouvez voir ici comment on propose de collaborer, ce serait vraiment un plaisir pour nous de pouvoir aider mediapart et vos lecteurs: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com @gaetan@piaille.fr

Jacobin × Bonfire — From audience to community

How Jacobin's German edition connected Ghost to Bonfire to give its readers a federated community space they own. The result is a reusable foundation other publishers can adopt.

Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe yesterday

@gaetan@mediapart.social l'integration avec ghost n'est qu'un exemple, l'important c'est la flexibilité et notre approach de co-design pour construire quelque chose d'unique avec chaque communautée, plutot que d'offrire un seule plateforme pour tout le monde

@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com @gaetan@piaille.fr

Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe yesterday

@gaetan@mediapart.social vous pouvez voir ici comment on propose de collaborer, ce serait vraiment un plaisir pour nous de pouvoir aider mediapart et vos lecteurs: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com @gaetan@piaille.fr

Jacobin × Bonfire — From audience to community

How Jacobin's German edition connected Ghost to Bonfire to give its readers a federated community space they own. The result is a reusable foundation other publishers can adopt.

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Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 2 days ago

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 Franca? 🔥

pretalx.com/open-source-conf... #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse #OpenSource #Bonfire

A presentation slide on a red background with the title "Where's Franca?" and the confused john travolta's meme

Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire Open Source Conference Luxembourg

Digital sovereignty is not achieved simply by replacing one platform with another. A public institution may host its own server and still inherit someone else’s assumptions about identity, processes, moderation, participation, and governance. This talk presents [Bonfire](https://bonfirenetworks.org) , an AGPL-licensed modular framework for building self-hosted and federated digital spaces using open protocols such as ActivityPub. Rather than asking every administration, university, or public body to join the same network and using the same platform and set of features, Bonfire allows each organisation to assemble a space around its own needs: public communication, institutional communities, cross-organisation collaboration, research networks, or moderated discussions. Institutions can operate the infrastructure themselves or work with cooperative hosting providers, define their own roles and participation boundaries, and connect with peer organisations without surrendering their data, policies, or roadmap to a single vendor. Drawing on Bonfire’s work with research and education partners - including the University of Warwick, Princeton University and UCL - the talk will examine what this model changes in practice. It will also address what remains difficult: operational capacity, engagement and participation, moderation, migration, interoperability, and the long-term sustainability of public-interest infrastructure. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating sovereign communication tools: not only where a service is hosted, but who controls its data, code, policies, evolution, and relationships with other institutions and with a realistic understanding of where Bonfire can contribute today.

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Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 3 days ago

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 we want to support.
Their ongoing diary of leaving big tech is worth a read (in Dutch): apache.be/vaarwel-big-tech

Ernstige kwetsbaarheden in Belgische eID-software blootgelegd

Apache zegt “bye bye big tech”. Ontdek in deze doorlopende blog hoe en waarom.

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Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 3 days ago

Ernstige kwetsbaarheden in Belgische eID-software blootgelegd

Apache zegt “bye bye big tech”. Ontdek in deze doorlopende blog hoe en waarom.

Rachel

@reesl 2 mo. ago

FOSSil

Test group for sharing free open source software I love. If you love FOSS and want to be part of the group, request to join. The posts should be visible publicly, but only members post. Testing out this feature in Bonfire with these settings.

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Bonfire

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe 4 days ago

@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 read. This is currently mostly low-level functionality so we'd be happy to co-design the UX with people who need these features and can also help test if/how they interoperate with other federated apps and how we can mitigate leaks...