Bonfier Social, A new structure for the creation of communities on the open social web, launched on Thursday Feediforum online conferenceWhile Bonfire Social is a federated app, which means that it is operated by the underlying protocol similar to the Mastodon (Activity), it is more modular and more adaptable. This means that the control of communities on the bonfire is more how the app works, which features and omissions are in place, and their own roadmaps and preferences will include.
There is a definite disruptive bent for software, which describes itself as a place where “all living beings thrive and communities thrive, which are free from personal interest and capitalist control.”
In other words, its mission is to build social software where people get to make decisions, not large take platform manufacturers such as meta or Google.
The organization itself runs as a non -profitable funded by donations and grants, and this enterprise does not take capital. Its code is an open source, and it works with the collaboration of communities and researchers who use it to manufacture and increase online digital locations.
Bonfire Social, now introduced as a 1.0 release candidate before public release, is just a representation of the bonfire offering. Bonfier calls it “taste”.
Each flavor is a prefabricated bundle of bonfire extensions, features, and defaults, like an early template. When a community opposes running a particular “taste”, it gets to operate the app because it sees fit, adds its own extensions and determines its own roadmap for product changes. It keeps social software back under the control of users, rather than that of a platform manufacturer being subjected to the craze of sometimes with changing feature sets and algorithms.
The organization is already developing other tastes, such as the bonfire community and open science, and bonfire software allows any other community to make their version.
Bonfire in social, users will recognize familiar features, such as feed and tools, posts to follow the posts, user profiles, flags or block materials, and more.
However, it also provides other equipment and features that may not be in traditional social networks, such as equipment to customize feed, support for nested discussions, the ability to host multiple profiles per user per user, rich-stay posts, and access control features.
There are a significant discrimination between custom feed bonfire and traditional social media apps.
Although the idea of ​​following the custom feed is something that has been popularized by new social networks or social browsers such as a new social network or flipboard surf, in fact the equipment to create those feeds is maintained by the third party. The bonfire provides its own custom feed-beding tool in a simple interface instead, in which users do not need to understand coding.
To make feeds, user types, date, engagement levels, sources, and more can filter the material by examples, and more, including something called “circle”.
Those who lived through the Google+ era of social networks may become familiar with the concept of circles. On Google’s social network, users organized contacts in groups, called circles, for customized sharing. This concept remains on the bonfire, where a circle represents the list of people. It can be a group of friends, come with a fan group, local user, organizer in a mutual support group, or something else. These mandals are private by default, but can be shared with others.
The bonfire is another unique feature boundaries on social, which controls you who can see or attach to your content. For example, you can share a post with many of your circles, but only allow members of a specific circle to comment.
The bonfire also supports threaded conversation (nested discussion), where answers can branch into their own sub-threads. This can be useful for communities where deep discussion and cooperation are more valuable than those where everyone competes to pay attention.
In addition, the bonfire users can adapt the app using one of the 16 underlying subjects, or they can design their own layout and choose their color and fonts.
Accounts on bonfire can also host several profiles that have their own followers, materials and settings. This can be useful for those who prefer only both public and private profiles, but also for those who need to share a given profile with others – such as a profile, a publication, a collective, or a project team for a business.
Other features available at the launch include PWA support for mobile devices, community blocks, custom emoji support, full-reading (with opt out), direct messages, private group discussions (with nested threads), and more. Extensions, which combine different features, can be enabled or disabled by admins and users. Admins only decide what the lapse is.
This means that users can turn on or off the characteristics that they do not like, even core features such as likes or boosts (federated versions of retweet/repost).
Because the bonfire is built on the activitypube, it also fed with Mastodon, Petub, Mobilizon and others.
Software means to be self-established, although to work Develop a hosting network Is running For those who just want to kick tires, A demo example is available,
