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@gino@sip.masto.host @buzz@sip.masto.host ​cé continuità!🤣

On our way home from #FOSDEM. Met so many amazing people form the #fediverse community. Thanks to everyone for the discussions on events federation and more. @linos @Bonfire @mayel @ivan @liaizon @lesion @michael the folks from Mobilizion and anyone I forgot.

🚄 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 are

Modular Communication Tools on the Open Social Web
🎥 Decentralised Communication devroom
🗓️ Sunday, Feb 1st, 14:45–15:15 CET
🌐 Local time where you are

We’ll be sharing more about the why and how of Bonfire and our ecosystem, hands-on demos, announcing new alliances, and real stories from communities using Bonfire today.

We can’t wait to connect with the open source and fediverse crowd, swap ideas, and meet anyone passionate about building healthier, more flexible, and consentful digital spaces. Whether you’re a developer, community organiser, or just fediverse-curious, come say hi!

@coop@cosocial.ca ​awesome! Eaeger to read notes from your #bonfire explorations ☺️

just a status report on #BonfireSocial 1.0.1 support, #Fedicat has basic functionality, can browse, like, boost, follow, bookmark, post without attachments. Avatars only show up sporadically, like after a boost.

I started looking into suitable open-source ActivityPub-powered applications that can serve as digital platforms for IRL communities such as cities, neighbourhoods and municipalities.

In my own local community, a substantial bit of online discourse and engagement happens on Facebook, so we do have a benchmark ;-)

#Bonfire

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"sabato 24 gennaio mobilitazioni in tutto il mondo per difendere la rivoluzione del Rojava e il progetto del confederalismo democratico. Non è un appello rituale, né una convocazione simbolica. È una richiesta urgente di solidarietà mentre Kobane è di nuovo accerchiata, mentre la linea del fronte si avvicina e l’esperimento politico più avanzato mai nato in Medio Oriente rischia di essere schiacciato sotto il peso combinato di eserciti regolari, milizie jihadiste e cinismo geopolitico."

osservatoriorepressione.info...

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @nicolasvivant@colter.social ​i thought it was a meme 🫠

btw also bluesky is lobbying quite hard in EU afaik

Bonfire has just released a new version, which includes initial support for Mastodon API endpoints (interested how this will work, as Bonfire has sooo many more post control options)

And…initial work on an ActivityPub C2S API!

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-1-0-1-building-momentum/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Bonfire

In a new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administration and the European far right.

corporateeurope.org/en/2026/...

Alongside a truckload of exciting updates, we're super thrilled to be featured in the latest update from @Bonfire 🔥

Check out the blog for a teaser on something new we'll be working with Bonfire to provide soon 👀

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-1-0-1-building-momentum/

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bonfire #DigitalCommunity

@Edent@mastodon.social ​love your book reviews, i have in my list "How to speak whale" and "The bees" because of you, but i'm tempted to read this one first now 😊

An important PSA for people who are active on #Bluesky and who, upon hearing that the ICE account was officially verified, are saying: "I will just block it."

Blocking on Bluesky is NOT PRIVATE: it's very easy to see who is blocking any account by visiting sites that list that information.

I took a screenshot from https://clearsky.app, listing all the accounts that are blocking ICE (I pixelated avatars and usernames for privacy purposes).

The safest bet is to mute (that info is private) 😫

posts about ICE and Bluesky today illustrate a deep issue about how we design tools…

online, we typically engage with *sources* not specific content - - going to a webpage, shows you whatever content currently is there

- following someone on social media, we see whatever they post

- merely being on a platform with algorithmic content promotion means you see whatever they want you to see, that is, potentially the platform in its entirety is the “active channel”

this makes one’s ability to select and restrict channels the most fundamental design feature there can be:

so it matters whether I can only restrict a specific source or also a *source of sources*…

(blocking a server includes future accounts yet to be created, block lists of individual accounts that I can import do not etc.)

….there are fundamental design choices here that have some relationship to centralization vs. “decentralization” but they’re not fully captured by that distinction, even though they really matter to our experience

the rather reductive way we’ve conducted debate about “decentralization” has obscured that a little, I think

@PetroleumPredator@indieweb.studio ​yeah it's quite an outdated version, we are shipping the 1.0.1 which solved the bugs you are experiencing

@ntnsndr@social.coop happy to chat, i've been part of it for most of the time...
@mayel@sunbeam.city @Stacco@social.coop ​

I've been giving lots of feedback to the @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe guys. They're taking things up SUPER fast. It's been absolutely incredible.

I recommend folks try out Bonfire, because it's honestly shaping up to be the one stop shop platform for social networking, consuming news, eventually handling calendar events, etc.

They just let me know about the new Git they just put up about Bonfire Widget suggestions. What would YOU want to see in Bonfire?

github.com/bonfire-networks/...

that's a great splash screen to start a documentary

Adam Curtis: Can't get you out of my head (free on youtube)
#davidGraeber

@reiver@mastodon.social ​bonfire does