Grilled Cheese

ExploreLog inSign up

Bonfire

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy

224 Following64 Followers

Public Interest Social Networks

Bonfire is built by communities, for communities—rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your […]

🌉 bridged from https://bonfire.cafe/pub/actors/Bonfire on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

PostsRepliesMedia
@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gyOct 11, 2026, 12:38 AMReposted by @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy

Coming up this Thursday: An Introduction to Public-Interest Infrastructure with #CoopCloud, this Thursday 15th October @ 19 UTC

Call link: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Calendar event […]

[Original post on social.coop]

Pink, black, and white flyer.

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure with Co-operative Cloud

Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC

A public event reintroducing our project: 

A community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of production-ready configurations for libre software apps, and human-friendly tooling to manage it all. Developed and managed by an international democratic federation.
@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 7:27 AM

It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg!
Huge thanks to the amazing @[email protected] and @[email protected] for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 7:13 AM

Coming to the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg today? @[email protected] 🇱🇺

Come say hi! At 15:30 we'll talk about digital sovereignty, why it's more than a server, what is the ecosystem we're building towards and keep asking ourselves: where's […]

[Original post on bonfire.cafe]

A presentation slide on a red background with the title "Where's Franca?" and the confused john travolta's meme
@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 3:54 PM

Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany.
Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyOct 4, 2026, 3:08 PM

@[email protected] @[email protected] Indeed, boundaries in bonfire differentiate between something being discoverable vs readable, allowing for "unlisted" content that can only be viewed by certain people and on the other hand "previewable" content that can be seen in feeds but not fully […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gySep 19, 2026, 10:15 AM

Originally published on Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy blog, this article by @[email protected] and @[email protected] reflects on a semester of collaboration with Bonfire. Together, we explored how Governance Cards could help communities describe how they organise and […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gySep 6, 2026, 7:30 AM

We’re delighted to share that our talk: “Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire” has been accepted for the Open Source Conference Luxembourg 🎉 !
We’re looking forward to discussing why digital sovereignty requires more than […]

[Original post on bonfire.cafe]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gySep 3, 2026, 2:36 PM

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.

We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.

Built around open Fediverse […]

@jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gySep 1, 2026, 5:09 PMReposted by @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy

Oooh, neat -- @Bonfire has officially released its #Communities module: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-for-communities/

I backed the project, and I'm overjoyed to see it coming to fruition. The world *desperately* needs a good open-source, open-network, open-community alternative to […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gySep 1, 2026, 9:06 AM

In solidarity with #AutisticiInventati.

Please join us in signing the open letter and send it to your representatives: inventati.org/campaign/open_...

A/I's mission has always been clear, and for more than twenty years it has inspired generations of hackers and activists in Italy and around […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyAug 31, 2026, 1:58 PM

@[email protected] credits to the amazing @[email protected] crew 😊

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyAug 31, 2026, 1:41 PM

We’re gathering around a fire 🔥

**Around the Bonfire** is our new newsletter: a digest of releases, community stories, collaborations, and everything else taking shape around Bonfire.

We’ll send it when there’s a new release, but never more than once a month […]

[Original post on bonfire.cafe]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyAug 30, 2026, 3:50 PM

Bonfire 1.0.7 is out 🔥 It includes a new default UI, reworked discussions, faster and more flexible feeds, better mobile navigation, and fixes across federation, accessibility, publishing and admin tools. We’re also sharing our bikemap for what’s next: public federated groups, better […]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyAug 29, 2026, 1:38 PM

Turn your #Ghost publication into a thriving community with Bonfire.

Automatically import all your Ghost articles into dedicated Bonfire groups and topics while preserving the membership tiers you’ve already set up. Readers can sign in to your Bonfire instance with their Ghost account, then […]

bonfire.cafeOriginal post on bonfire.cafe
@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyAug 27, 2026, 2:13 PM

Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles.

You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you.

Each team member signs in with their usual […]

[Original post on bonfire.cafe]

@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gyJul 1, 2026, 12:42 PM

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 **Archipelago mode** means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to **federate** _***only***_ **with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers**. Communities can link up into an […]

bonfire.cafeOriginal post on bonfire.cafe
1
Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCommunity StandardsHelpGet the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-11 02:37:10 EDT