Bonfire

Bonfire@bonfire.cafe

Public Interest Social Networks Bonfire is built by communities, for communities. Rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your tools, reclaim your data, and resist manipulation by shaping your own federated digital spaces. Posts by <a href="@ivan@bonfire.cafe">@ivan</a> and <a href="@mayel@bonfire.cafe">@mayel</a> Previously at <a href="https://indieweb.social/@bonfire">@bonfire@indieweb.social</a>

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Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 Archipelago mode means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to federate *only* with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers. Communities can link up into an "archipelago" of like-minded "islands" with shared rules, ideal for tight-knit groups, neighbourhoods, assemblies, co-ops, or orgs that want to connect with each other but not necessarily the whole in...
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We just released Bonfire Social 1.0.3 🔥 Blog post with all the details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo... It comes with dozens of bug fixes and UX improvements, plus: Federated comments embeddable on any web page. Deep Ghost integration: SSO, membership tier sync, and automatic article import. New dashboard widgets: spotlight, polls closing soon, top discussions. #CalmEmpowerment: a new design pattern that starts with a few sensible defaults, offers a middle layer of common adjustmen...
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Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥 We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website. Built on our modular framework for community-governed digital spaces. Watch 👉 spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNj...
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On Saturday May 9th in Rome, as part of the Nina Festival, we're hosting a workshop to think with Bonfire, exploring and co-designing federated digital spaces for caring for our communities. Together with @reclaimthetech@mastodon.uno, Zero81, Scift Lab and more. 📍 Millepiani, Via Odero 13, 3pm If you're in (or near) Rome, come join us!
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We just released Bonfire 1.0.2, an update focused on giving you a more stable and reliable experience. We're also heads-down working with several communities who are setting up their own Bonfire servers. Plus updates on end to end encryption and federated groups. More details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
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🚄 The Bonfire team is rolling into Brussels for FOSDEM 2026! Come find us at one of Europe’s biggest free software gatherings, with over 8,000 people, dozens of devrooms, and all things open source. We’re giving two talks this weekend (and both will be livestreamed at the links below, so you can join from anywhere, with recordings up afterward): Building Modular, Consentful, and Federated Social Networks 🎥 Social Web devroom 🗓️ Saturday, Jan 31st, 17:10–17:30 CET 🌐 Local time where you ar...
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Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates: Bonfire 1.0.1 is out! 🎉 This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first delivery from the maintenance work funded by your incredible support. Thank you for helping us reach this milestone and keep Bonfire thriving! For details about the release see our latest blog post: Bonfir...
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If you're in Amsterdam this Saturday join us for reading of Ada &amp; Zangemann by @kirschner@mastodon.social &amp; Sandra Brandstätter in English and in Dutch, followed by a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from Bonfire, at the @internetarchiveeurope@toot.community, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. More information and RSVP here.