Hello, a bunch of us are at a Fediverse meetup at Foulab in Montreal. We woulld like to know what Bonfire is. Can anybody explain it to us?
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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)
Test?
@natsumemio test^^
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.
https://campground.bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01KAN8B8D2MS5S84TZM2PP86V9
Test test I can't wait to see this bonfire growing.
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Hi @mayel how are things?
Is Bonfire still in beta testing? #askfedi
I signed up to try out #Bonfire social platform
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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.
@gilles @ivan We have a work-in-progress implementation of groups but that will be in the community flavour: bonfirenetworks.org/apps/
@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/
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.
