Bonfire: Public interest Social Networks
summary
Bonfire is a modular toolkit for federated open apps that launches Bonfire Social 1.0 and a beta Open Science Network, bridges Mastodon, Lemmy, Ghost, BlueSky and others, and ships AGPL code with consent‑based governance and a crowdfunding campaign. It implements circles and boundaries so posts carry audience and reply permissions, offers customizable feeds and data portability, and plans federated groups, cross‑server moderation, cooperative hosting and MLS end‑to‑end encryption.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to Bonfire
- 1:31Open Social Web vs mainstream platforms
- 2:58Bonfire's mission and approach
- 3:40Bonfire as a modular framework
- 4:25New apps beyond microblogging
- 6:29Bonfire Social features
- 8:58Data portability and migration
- 9:40Future social networking tools
- 11:51Why join Bonfire and the open social web
- 12:34Q&A
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