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Tending to Bonfire (npub14rp…za3l) 🔥

website: https://bonfirenetworks.org
link: https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01K1D967YP3G7FACGAPF61Z80Q
vutuv.de: https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01KYVY9QM1G3BR4S5XY2TPBGRG

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2026-11-03 16:48:44 UTC

**We're shifting our centre of gravity: from social features to community tools.**
Bonfire was never meant to be one more feed that grabs your attention. Today it takes the shape we've been building toward: **Bonfire for communities**. A tool for groups that need to organise together, not just post at each other. Shipping today: **groups and topics, events, shared organisation profiles, embeddable federated comments, customisable themes, and a first set of governance tools**. It comes as a ready-to-use space with everything included, to then be reshaped block by block: add what's missing, swap or fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
[bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...](https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-for-communities/)<span class="invisible"> <a class="hashtag" rel="tag ugc" href="https://bonfire.cafe/hashtag/activitypub">#ActivityPub</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="tag ugc" href="https://bonfire.cafe/hashtag/federatedgroups">#FederatedGroups</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="tag ugc" href="https://bonfire.cafe/hashtag/fediverse">#Fediverse</a>
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2026-04-29 20:58:47 UTC

If you're attending [#FediForum](https://bonfire.cafe/hashtag/FediForum) let's have a discussion tomorrow around this open access paper: [Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3790855) which argues that decentralized platforms like the Fediverse focus on governing within communities, but ignore the frictions between them. From workshops with 24 Fediverse community organisers, they identify six design challenges (visibility, information collation, tiered sharing, relationship-building, customization, and adoption) and propose three principles for "inter-community governance": modularity (shared vocabulary, like governance nutrition labels) and forkability (copy and adapt others' governance structure or rules), and polycentricity (overlapping trust bubbles instead of one global network, i.e. archipelagos).
Decentralisation and autonomy alone aren't enough, communities need connective tissues to interconnect them beyond just technical federation (a mycelium network if you like 😊)
If you're interested and are able to read or peruse it ahead of time that will help us have a more grounded and potentially productive discussion based on it...

2025-04-23 18:02:34 UTC

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yeah this one is for communication and coordination around the project, there won't be a flagship instance

2025-04-23 17:45:28 UTC

Hello burning world!