🔥 Great coverage from @TechCrunch on the Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate we announced at #fediforum

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Bonfire's new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control | TechCrunch

Bonfire's mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.

🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed! Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control? Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement. More details and video demos: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_rc/ #BonfireSocial #FediForum #FOSS #ActivityPub #DigitalAutonomy

Join us at #FediForum today — an unconference about the ActivityPub ecosystem. We’ll be doing a live demo and proposing a session: Behind the Bonfire: building a fediverse app in public Curious how a fediverse app actually gets made? We’ll share the journey to Bonfire 1.0, talk about deployment, governance, and what building in public really looks like — the good, the hard, and the weird. 1/2

Have you registered for #FediForum yet? Make sure to tune in tomorrow to hear from us and many wonderful folks including Cory Doctorow:

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FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

📣 We're looking for communities and individuals interested in setting up their own Bonfire instances over the next weeks. We need your help to: - Use Bonfire in real-world scenarios - Federate with each other and the wider fediverse to test interoperability - Monitor performance under active use Your feedback will help us get Bonfire Social across the finish line to a stable 1.0 release! We’ll be happy to provide guidance throughout the whole process ✊ Please boost or reach out if interested!

🎉🔬 More news this weekend. @npub1qu6e...8h2h (eLife's preprint evaluation platform) has secured funding from @npub1n8y6...l96n to build a Bonfire flavour for federating preprint reviews and discussions. This means federated, community-governed spaces for open discourse around scientific preprints outside traditional publishing gatekeepers. Read the full announcement:

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Sciety secures funding from NLNet Foundation to help build discourse around preprints

At Sciety we're pioneering a new layer of open scholarly communication, one that captures informal conversations around preprints and makes them di...

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As we approach the release of Bonfire 1.0, this isn’t your typical launch announcement. Instead, it’s a moment to reflect on how we’ve built Bonfire, a roadmap of values, methods, and intentions – and an invitation to define what comes next. In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship... 📣 Read our latest blog post: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/

Next stop: Brussels! 🌍 The Complex Anarchism Symposium will gather scientists, artists, activists & dreamers for a 5-day deep dive on organizing without hierarchy and embracing complexity. A Bonfire instance will serve as digital commons — a self-organized space for discussion, coordination, proposals & reflection. Excited for this collective experiment and to see what emerges. 🌱 🔗 Join remotely or in Brussels (May 19–23):

Complex Anarchism Symposium, 19-23 May 2025 in Brussels

With the upcoming Complex Anarchism symposium, we will be exploring the intersection between anarchism and complexity science. Anarchy, despite its...

💸 Support the event: https://www.gofundme.com/f/anarchism-and-complexity-science-community-kickstart