We’re crowdfunding for maintenance first: the unsexy work funders usually don’t want to support. Our new post explains why care and maintenance are the foundation before we can unlock all the other stretch goals:

Matters of care - why maintenance comes first

It was not an easy choice to focus our crowdfunding campaign on care and maintenance as the condition sine qua non to consider it successful.

We’re at 74%. Help us cross the finish line: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=KQi0KDuSGE2TPSH9j9eCww #crowdfunding #care

🎉 100 backers! We're ~€8,000 away from our first goal of €30,000 for maintenance. Campaign perks include a limited-run, hand screen-printed piece by Rocco Lombardi, the artist behind Bonfire's visual world. There's also a regular print for a lower price, available in more locations. Rocco's work embodies what we care about: living worlds, connection, plurality. Our aesthetic embraces "contamination" and renewal: away from sterile platform design. Claim yours: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

"Wielded well, the master’s tools can maybe be used to smash a few deserving walls [...] But like patient little demons, those tools carry inside them the spirit of their making. They twist in our hands in our moment of need and leave us blistered and bleeding. By serving the needs of the people who made them, they resist the greater work. We need better tech. We need it to be made in better ways and for better uses, and above all, in and for communities."

wreckage/salvage

Sparks fly up

Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.

By @npub1sacl...kcpe

🔥 Day 1 was incredible! Thank you to everyone who backed the campaign. We’re just €10K from our maintenance goal: the foundation that keeps everything running. Once we achieve it, we’ll shift into stretch goals co-designed with communities and teams: moderation tools, encryption, mutual aid networks, cooperative hosting, native apps, and more… Help us get there: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning. It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design. Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g 1/2