We're currently noting down here all the mobile / UI issues to be addressed for the next release (input welcome here or on github as well 🤗 )
github.com/bonfire-networks/...

The campground instance was updated to a new release with various improvements 🔥

@bonfire@indieweb.social The latest release includes a way to switch between both modes while drafting a post, so you don't have to choose just one!

Yes, I'm here on Bonfire trying to figure out what it is and how to use it.

So I saw Hamish (Vagabond) in the list when I clicked "Followed", but Hamish was pretty sure (or at least tried) he also followed me. He might have tried and failed, or maybe my lists are incomplete?

(I also found it hard to understand the "Following" buttons in the right column of the "Followed" list, but they seem to allow me to unfollow somebody in the Following list. Right?)

When I look at the results again, I doubt that I saw a bug or a discrepancy, just the usual difficulties of communication and understanding of something new.

#Bonfire_feedback

Did some experiments with @Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info

1. Looked like our messages were federating between here and Hamish's home domain and sometimes social.coop where I was posting some of the messages. Does that seem possible at this stage? Or did I misinterpret? If so, good to have some federation going on!

2. Early in the conversation the message traffic seemed very slow. Neither of us were sure we could communicate. Later, the round trips seemed a bit quicker.

3. Overall result: we found and seem to be following each other. One weird possible bug was that I saw discrepancies between my Followed and Following lists. I need to go back to find them to report. Don't seem to be able to keep that open....will add a reply....

Looks like we should set up a test instance with Cooperation FLAVOUR enabled. Wonder what it would take to do that? Any Bonfire hosting services in the world yet? I would pay (a little bit).

Me: And I believe you offer a señor discount.

Waiter: You mean the senior discount?

Me, wearing a poncho and sombrero: I knew it was too bueno to be true.

@versolalto The pages extension is currently disabled because it is still in development (you should be getting an error saying that instead of the ones you got though, will look into that). Sorry you didn't get a response last time!

Actually, boundaries is working now. Active apps aren't. However, boundaries are freaking awesome. I can't wait until this gets out of beta. It is going to be amazing! It is truly, the ultimate social platform. I have so much control over everything I do.

This is a test post.

This is a test post.

This is a test post.

Ok my bad, they were just regular spaces in the PDF output

J'ai finalement fini ce PDF : « La souffrance des adolescent·es que les réseaux « sociaux » capitalistes incitent au harcèlement »

#bonfire_feedback apparently unbreakable spaces are broken, what a time to be alive

J'ai finalement fini ce PDF : « La souffrance des adolescent·es que les réseaux « sociaux » capitalistes incitent au harcèlement »

Feature request: capitalist social media have deliberately done everything they could to degrade hyperlinks in favor of their built-in sharing mechanisms, and I think it's very important to provide affordances not only to link to things that were written after the 80s but also to insert academic references, which may be, for example, written during the antiquity (I'm thinking about Lahire's references to Aristotle's "L'éthique de Nicomaque" in "L'homme pluriel").

More to the point, I think that in order to build as anti-authoritarian a social network as possible, it's important to foster cultural diversity and for example on Twitter the ratio of your followings in their unique followings (ratio of your 1st-degree relationships in your 2nd-degree relationships) could be an interesting indicator; any sociology book represents a network of citations that's more cultural diverse by a magnitude (actually I think that academic citations are, like the internet, a thermonuclear war-resilient network of networks, and that any book published to an institutional editor like Gallimard or the PUF is more resilient than a personal website). It also says a lot about cultural diversity when bourgeois channels have a playlist of about a dozen of classics spanning on several decades, and it may also indicate why some people online look for a sort of underground middle with FUBAR encryption norms like OpenPGP, cli-based mpd clients and window managers, etc., because if all of your 2nd-degree relationships think the same thing about e.g. your gender, it will be hard to think otherwise (which is why so many transgender people take time to come out of the closet).

Such affordances (that aren't even part of Markdown, but that are part of Org-mode, which the Hugo static sites generator supports natively) could be hooked to a collaborative, private tracker-style citations database with similar a curation and trumping model, except that trumping a reference would imply providing a link or a proof of some sort, and that it would be perfectly legal. You could draw inspiration from the way Emacs does it; I think honestly that the lack of such affordances in most libre software is a battle we've lost against enclosures. Kristoffer Balintona wrote an excellent introduction to Org-cite and thus to the CSL, which is the universal, website-friendly equivalent to Biblatex (the author recommends configuring Emacs to use Biblatex with LaTeX and the CSL for anything else).

#feature_request #bonfire_feedback