🎉 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:

Bonfire: building blocks for communities on the open social web by Bonfire - Indiegogo

From platforms to communities: a federated social web with shared foundations and co‑created spaces for gathering, care, connection, and ste...

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

🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse. You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client. Demo:

Tella

Ivan's video 💨 — Tella

Read more about 1.0 RC3:

Bonfire Social 1.0rc3

Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform t...

#enshittification #release #dataportability

🔥 More anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire ✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts. ✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to monitor migration progress in detail and troubleshoot issues. Read more about 1.0 RC3:

Bonfire Social 1.0rc3

Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform t...

#enshittification #release

🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire! The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to: ✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all. ✨ Quote — or request consent to quote — someone else’s post. ✨ Give or withdraw consent at any time. A first step toward making quoting work smoothly and respectfully across the fediverse. Read more about 1.0 RC3:

Bonfire Social 1.0rc3

Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform t...

#quote