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@phillycodehound you already can, by clicking on the setting button next the circle header you can specify the circle boundary...you can share it locally (only with same instance users, publicly, or based on cusotm boundaries)
October 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🔥 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 […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🔥 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 […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
October 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Bonfire x Newsmast

We’re excited to share that Bonfire and @newsmast are working together.

We’re collaborating across several key areas:

🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire

🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels mobile app and […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
July 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Two new profile widgets coming in the next #openscience flavour release:

📄 Most Recent Publication: showcase your latest work
⭐ Most Cited Publication: highlight your most cited publication
🔧 Quantitative metrics now hidden by default while we consider […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
July 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
As we integrate #OpenAlex data into the #bonfire #openscience flavor, we're displaying familiar metrics: works count, citations, h-index, research topics, institutional affiliations...
These might be exactly what you need, or perhaps just a starting point […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
July 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@jaz
There's now a new setting under "privacy" to decide the default active tab in the DM view (fig 1) and we've implemented filtering DMs by "followed only" (fig 2) as the lowest hanging fruit 🍓 .
DMs from people you don't follow are still received and saved […]

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July 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🌊 Exciting news! Crowdinblue - a mission-led initiative bridging water solutions with funding - has chosen #bonfire to build their federated community space!
Together, we're designing custom extensions to connect water projects with impact investors and […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Taking a quick detour from our 1.0rc3 milestone work! 🛤️
This morning we added a small but meaningful feature:
🔗 Link previews now display the author's fediverse account when available.
➡️ Next up: Author attribution controls in Bonfire's verification […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
July 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
@box464 wow, currently a trail looks like this in bonfire, but we can definitively improve the trail preview 📝
June 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Next stop: Brussels! 🌍

The Complex Anarchism Symposium will gather scientists, artists, activists & dreamers for a 5-day deep dive on organizing without hierarchy and embracing complexity.

A Bonfire instance will serve as digital commons — a self-organized […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
May 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔥 Part 3 of our LiveView Native journey is live! 🎉

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/dev_diary_lvn_3/

We're adding navigation to our Bonfire app.
In this article, we dive into implementing TabView and Toolbar, building navigation components, and […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
October 9, 2024 at 10:30 AM
🔥 Let's prototype some native components in #liveviewnative

In this entry we dig into modifiers and styles, building some of the most used components in any app, such as Modals and Menus.

Read more ➡️
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/dev_diary_lvn_2/

#myelixirstatus #elixir
October 3, 2024 at 10:53 AM
We’re been featured in Che-Fare, an Italian magazine focused on social innovation.
We wrote about our vision of building social networks as digital commons!
Here the article link (in Italian):
https://che-fare.com/almanacco/cultura/social-network-come-bene-comune-il-caso-bonfire-networks/
October 1, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Excited to share the progress and upcoming steps for the Open Science Network in just 2 hours at #fediforum !
Join us for the live demo and further discussion - see you there 🔥
September 13, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Enabling third-party integrations in Bonfire is a breeze. ✨
Scientists can choose to enable @OpenAlex widgets in their Extensions settings to display relevant data about their work and research topics directly on their profiles.
We've prototyped an initial […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
September 11, 2024 at 12:57 PM
🔥 "Content Labeling" is a feature that allows moderators (or those w/ permissions) to add context to potentially misleading or unclear posts by attaching labels and linking reliable sources. It aims to reduce misinformation and promote informed discussions […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
September 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM
🔥 Next week we'll be presenting and discussing the Open Science Network initiative at #fediforum alongside a growing network of academics and open science activists 🧬

Together, we'll explore how we can build open and federated digital spaces that are […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
September 5, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Finally, dedicated topics views. Topics enable you to categorise content, manage authors, and control visibility and interaction—all crucial for maintaining a structured, magazine-style experience. With boundaries applied to each topic, you can easily manage […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
August 6, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Next, our streamlined post creation interface will put everything writers and editors need at their fingertips. Easily set boundaries, select topics, write summaries, and schedule posts. You can also include images and other media, apply content warnings […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
August 6, 2024 at 10:54 AM
First up: a robust dashboard with detailed metrics. This will give editors and moderators deep insights into their community's engagement, and the ability to define what metrics matter the most for their federated publications like journals or magazines
What […]

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August 6, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Building on our earlier thread about Mosaic's federated publication theme, we're excited to dive deeper into some of the key features.
Our goal is to co-design the theme with pilot projects, to make this platform ideal for knowledge dissemination on the […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
August 6, 2024 at 10:52 AM
This week, we'll be sharing a glimpse into the diverse themes and possibilities we'll offer with Mosaic, an all-in-one platform built with Bonfire and tailored to each organization's unique needs. We begin with a federated journal and magazine theme—ideal […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
August 5, 2024 at 10:00 AM
We've added a new "Add a new widget" section in our documentation:
Learn how to develop custom widgets to show extra information relevant for communities. In the tutorial we'll build a widget that displays weather data based on the user location […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
June 17, 2024 at 11:05 AM