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Bonfire is built by communities, for communities. Rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your tools, reclaim your data, and resist manipulation by shaping your own federated digital spaces.


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website: https://bonfirenetworks.org
Location: Gaia
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Bonfire@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe (2026-06-21 01:51:29)
🔥 The Bonfire Social 1.0.5 release candidate is out!


This one brings archipelago mode (opt-in, allow-list federation for tightly-knit communities and networks), a more lightweight search backend (see changelog for migration steps), broadcasting announcements, another embeddable widget, PGP-encrypted emails, and many UX improvements and fixes.


If you're running an instance and want to give it a go, please let us know if you run into any issues.


Full changelog: docs.bonfirenetworks.org/cha...

Bonfire@Bonfire@bonfire.cafe (2026-05-16 03:43:24)
We just released Bonfire Social 1.0.3 🔥


Blog post with all the details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...


It comes with dozens of bug fixes and UX improvements, plus:



Federated comments embeddable on any web page.



Deep Ghost integration: SSO, membership tier sync, and automatic article import.



New dashboard widgets: spotlight, polls closing soon, top discussions.




#CalmEmpowerment: a new design pattern that starts with a few sensible defaults, offers a middle layer of common adjustments, and reveals the full options only when you need them. Boundaries and post permissions got this treatment first, more to follow...





Modular community rules: a first step in bringing research and co-design with students and researchers at @hci@micro.blogs.princeton.edu into Bonfire, so governance becomes something communities can better define and share, and that others can fork and adapt.





 #Bonfire #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Ghost #CommunityRules