🔥🔥🔥 New Bonfire release: v0.9.2! We're thrilled to announce the latest update, bringing you a more robust and tested boundary system and polished UI.

Testing on Firefox on Android both of the videos autoplay when I click them.

(Speaking as someone who'd like to stop being abused, yeah, these conditions aren't met because the relationship between the ultra-rich and the 99% is defined by abuse – I call that "class abuse". You aren't a lesser person if it's often difficult for you to meet these conditions. It's just that I believe most people want to "be" that kind of person – at least towards who they consider as part of their social camp, and it may exclude people like me, and this is a problem, but it's also a consequence of the ultra-rich attacking our education, because they never wanted an educated workforce.)

Woops, didn't mean to post an emoji

#bonfire_feedback Decentralized moderation? 😁 The possibility to have your instance moderated by third-party volunteers, or people you pay. Or the possibility to make your account/instance follow another instance's blocklist (for example I like social.coop's so I'd like to make my Bonfire instance follow theirs)

Thank you so much for reading this and paying attention!

@ivan I am still not in a hurry, but asking how that work is coming along so I can put it in my growing todo list whenever.

If you don't know, don't worry, no answer will tell me to keep it off my todo list for now...

@bonfire@indieweb.social
Looks like the checkmark on the notifications is intended to signal that you have seen them, so they will not continue to show numbers of notifications in your bottom left column by your name. Also looks like I need to click the checkmark more than once to silence the notifications. I suspect that this is actually a consequence of slow response from the server, and so another performance issue. I think I have seen lags like that in other places....will keep a list until I get my own instance up and running so I can instrument some of these lags....

@ivan as I mentioned, I want to try to deploy a Bonfire instant in my geographical neighborhood. When I do that, I will try to instrument it a bit to measure different interactions that seem slow to me and see if I can spot some low-hanging improvements. So far, the big slowdown seems to be whenever a bunch of posts are collected and presented, as in Activities, Posts, or Discussions.

@ivan @mayel @bonfire@indieweb.social

A suggestion for improvement:

Bonfire has this lovely indented thread presentation in the Discussions (channel? list? section?) but it's hidden. I only found it by accident.

So I suggest adding a line to the header of the Discussions list saying:
"Discussions: posts with replies. Click on a post to show the thread."

Might want to add something to the other selections in the left pantl, too. Like Posts: single messages, and I don't know what to explain Activities and how they are different.

dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023/04...
About federated collaboration.

Mentions #bonfire and also Communector, which should eventually be able to collaborate.

And I'm saying this as a sociology student because becoming smarter is a large part of a researcher's job, it isn't meant as an insult. However, they don't feel serious to me.

Like. I'm not saying they're fundamentally an idiot, they just don't seem to have any technological expertise, and to be looking for attention over here. Most of the problems they find with software seem to be their personal struggles as well as their own attempts at providing a nuanced opinion while missing why it's bad and why it can be useful. So this is a dated opinion because I don't see them in my timeline anymore, I don't see many people trying to assert their opinions on me as well, but becoming smarter isn't hard. Read books. Watch videos. Read comic books, they're super important, comic books writers are smart in ways the people smudging over them for having images obviously can't understand. Use Emacs. I'm sorry if this comes out as rude, but sustained stupidity results from mental health disorders, oppression, or bad ways to consume information. There are known solutions to that.

Speaking as an idiot myself, I don't understand why ActivityPub developers take Humane Tech seriously.

People's opinions on social media aren't formed by understanding critically the media they consume but by a message being repeated by different people. It reminds me of Huxley's hypnopedic messages are delivered to children as a form of State propaganda, they can't be used to teach them knowledge, but impulses of hedonism and sexual desire, on one hand, and of disgust towards lower classes, on the other; such messages are delivered to French people on television in the purest form while watching the television with their families, and it also reminds me of optimization for engagement, which feels like having a dinner with your family, for some part because it works by forgetting that its experience is a sequence of short, but repeated rewards.

My feelings that this sort of propaganda seems to work better if it's associated with food or your family, or with design principles that are meant to take people's time without their consent, or if you consume it before going to sleep; that our archaic brains seem most sensitive to it; and that it's converted into habits and values while we're sleeping, might not be a coincidence.

@ivan thanks. I'll try it when I see it. And as always, I am not in a hurry.

Thank you!

Oh wow, that's super interesting! I'm going to look it up!

Sure, we are working rn on making the boundary system stable and tested, the next release should come during this week, we will likely write a short blog post also about using boundaries and circles correctly:))
github.com/bonfire-networks/...

@bonfire@indieweb.social I don't need a fix for that bug right now, I would be happier with instructions for how to create a new Circle.

@bonfire@indieweb.social I read bonfirenetworks.org/posts/in... and was looking for how to create a Circle, when I crashed with this error message:

Something went wrong
found duplicate ID "open_preview-" for component Bonfire.UI.Common.OpenModalLive when rendering template