Today is announcement day 🔥

Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

1. Bonfire for communities
   Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements. A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.

2. Our first Mosaic case study
   Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

3. A deep Ghost integration
   Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/

4. The Telling
   One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/ Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.

Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe

Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/

Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛

@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe

Thst's cool but i still see no public open bonfire instances to join

The links were not formatted but they are there:

Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: https://campground.bonfire.cafe

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-for-communities/

We fully intend to interoperate with the threadiverse: the task-force work is about filling in the capabilities ActivityPub still lacks for groups to work like this across platforms.

When will groups and topics federate?

Not yet. Today they work within an instance.

I do love their answer to "Why don't you run a public flagship instance?" but of course it can be tough to get any momentum like that. I guess the middle-ground would be a flagship instance that limits signups after a certain point.

could you fix the formatting on them?

I could, or you could click the link in the OP to the original source 🙂

see here

I checked out this instance a while ago.

Most of those on Mastodon who have read this seem to be celebrating that Bonfire is finally bringing something like Facebook Groups to the Fediverse. Or discussion groups in general if they've missed or never heard of Guppe.

In the meantime, folks on Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte are collectively facepalming.