@kattascha Die Luft war direkt einen Tag nach Lockdown SO VIEL SAUBERER. Ich konnte es *riechen*
🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 RC2
We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing.
Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feeds customisations, plus plenty of interface refinements for both desktop and mobile.
A huge thank you to everyone who has set up a Bonfire instance, or joined the campground (our local-only testing space) to try out the app. Your suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable as we approach version 1.0. Please keep testing, sharing feedback, and helping us shape the future of federated social spaces!
✨ What’s new and improved?
- Long-form publishing: Going beyond beyond short posts to read and write in-depth articles, ideal for essays, announcements, or detailed content. Article feeds are now available for RSS readers.
- Smarter feeds: New feed options for events, books, and articles help you discover what matters to you most. You can now also filter out your own activities from your feeds when desired.
- Multi-profiles overview: A new navigation menu can display all your profiles with notification indicators, allowing quick profile switching.
- Private by default: New Bonfire instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.
- Interface improvements: We've refined the user experience, enhanced notifications and ensured posts display properly across mobile devices.
- More reliable: Tons of fixes for authentication, media uploads, mentions, moderation, and other core features.
Additional improvements include:
- Better translation and localization workflow
- Smoother OAuth/OpenID login and SSO support
- Updated documentation and guides for admins and contributors
- Enhanced S3 integration for uploads
- Lots of small bug fixes on comment threads, messaging, settings, and more
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the full changelog.
🎪 Community contributions and other initiatives
- We hosted our first install party using coop-cloud, with all participants who followed along successfully deploying their own Bonfire instances.
- Seperately, ozoned from Fireside Fedi livestreamed their installation attempt, surfacing valuable setup challenges. This highlighted the need to simplify Docker deployment and improve documentation. Contributors are welcome to help make this easier!
- Sciety deployed a Bonfire instance as part of their pre-print review project.
- @spark464@spark.box464.social published an article on how to add a weather widget in Bonfire.
Bonfire Social is built to be diverse and welcoming, which means making it accessible in as many languages as possible. Thanks to our amazing translators, Bonfire is now available in several languages.
🏅 Top translated languages
- Portuguese (Brazil): 100% translated & reviewed 🎉
- French: 98.9% translated, 69.4% reviewed
- Italian: 96.7% translated, 54% reviewed
- German: 98% translated
- Spanish: 57% translated
- Vietnamese: 20.9% translated, 11.1% reviewed
- ...and several more, including Catalan, Cantonese and Taiwanese.
Want to help Bonfire speak your language? Please join us and make a difference for communities worldwide!
🤝 Help needed
As we push toward 1.0, we're facing some specific challenges where community support and contributions would make a real difference:
- DevOps expertise: We need help streamlining the Docker installation process to make Bonfire more accessible to new users. If you have experience with containerisation and deployment workflows, your contributions would be invaluable.
- Elixir developers: Join us in improving Bonfire's stability and performance. We're focused on eliminating bugs and enhancing the core extensions' reliability.
- Financial support: As a small team of two working full-time on Bonfire, we need community support to sustain development. You can contribute through our Open Collective page.
- Federation testing: We're seeking users willing to set up Bonfire instances and try out federation and interoperability with other fediverse platforms. Your real-world testing helps ensure Bonfire works seamlessly across the fediverse.
- Translation: Please join us or share this with your multilingual friends!
These are our most pressing needs as we approach 1.0. If you can help with any of these areas, please get in touch via the fediverse, Matrix chat, or GitHub. Every contribution, big or small, helps make Bonfire better for everyone.
🙏 Thank you!
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed translations and reviews. You are lighting up Bonfire for people everywhere! Here are some of our awesome translators:
> Gilles Dutilh, Ahmad Dakhlallah, Lamparina Coletivo, alan ptm, Antonio Irre, Zulfikar A, CDN, cranio_is_thinking, Steven Bond, Diego KehrleSousa, Vrlo Vazno, Ed, Andrei Guliaikin, Hendra Wahyu T, Hippie Gschpängschtli, House of Olivier EU, Ivan Minutillo, Juan García, Lapineige, Pascal Schmid, Martin Frost, Duy, Mayel de Borniol, Sovversivo Anonimo, Peter Kvillegård, Poesty Li, Sergio Guidoux, Vaclovas lntas, Williams Melgar, and many more!
We really appreciate your work! 💜
And a massive thank you to everyone who contributed code, ideas, testing, translations, and support—including @spark464@spark.box464.social , @tommi@pan.rent, @lechindianer@sueden.social , @fishinthecalculator@bonfire.fishinthecalculator.me , @dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org , @ozoned@social.ozoned.net.
Thanks to those that are taking time to test drive Bonfire on our demo instance and provide feedback, such as @LiquidParasyte, @Rincewind, @youronlyone, @coyote...
Thanks to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for supporting the Bonfire development, all our Open Collective donors and our amazing community as a whole.
Bonfire is a collaborative project, and we’re grateful to build it with you .
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Ready to try Bonfire 1.0 RC2?
- Chat with us on the fediverse: @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe
Let’s light up the fediverse together! 🚀
In eigener Sache:
Noch immer sind wir darauf angewiesen, dass die Zahl der Mitglieder steigt. Nur dann kann sich MetaGer auf Dauer tragen. Nur dann sind wir in der Lage, auch neue Wege auszuprobieren, so wie mit Nolm, der neuen Suchmaschine, die auf dem Open Web Index aufsetzt.
Deshalb: bitte gerne teilen! Eine Mitgliedschaft bedeutet auch, dass der Schlüssel für die MetaGer-Suche monatlich automatisch neu aufgelasen wird. Es lohnt sich also.
CC: @smallcircles@social.coop
I'm not blind, but I get value out of alt text captions. Thank you to you people who take the time to add those to your photos.
Endlich mehr #Sicherheit für 🚲 Fahrräder und 👩🏻🤝👨🏾 Fußgänger.
Fordere ENTWEDER #Tempolimit ODER #Radwegbau.
🖋️ Hier mitmachen: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_05/_23/Petition_181621.%24%24%24.a.u.html
@ADFC @VCDeV @SheDrivesMobility @mastobikes_de @fedibikes @fedibikes_de
The Gjovik v Apple hearing earlier this week was very traumatic. Apple got the court's explicit okay to harass me to extent I might off myself & the court said it was misconduct by me to complain. I was shellshocked for a few days, but I'm ok now, I think because I always knew Apple was this evil.
It was like a very traumatic and disturbing confirmation of a preexisting theory.
Amazonian scorpion molecule wipes out breast-cancer cells in lab tests. Brazilian scientists isolated a peptide from Brotheas amazonicus venom and, using yeast ‘factories’, mass-produced it to screen against tumour lines. In vitro, the compound triggered necrosis in breast-cancer cells within 24 hours, achieving effects comparable to chemotherapy without damaging surrounding tissue. https://www.sciencealert.com/amazonian-scorpion-venom-can-kill-breast-cancer-cells-scientists-say?ref=fixthenews.com
#ShareGoodNewsToo
You mean the "No politics here"? Or their kinda transphobic one?
Nonetheless, I am currently using @MetaGer and am quite happy with it for now.
‼️ Großartige Neuigkeiten: Das Warten hat ein Ende! Der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags hat unsere Bundestagspetition "Tax the Rich" für eine gerechte Besteuerung großer Vermögen ENDLICH online gestellt! Unterschreibt, teilt und sagt es allen weiter – schon ab 30.000 Unterschriften muss der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestages eine öffentlichen Anhörung zur Vermögenssteuer einberufen. Setzen wir das Thema endlich auf die politische Tagesordnung! #TaxTheRich
https://www.attac.de/startseite/teaser-detailansicht/news/tax-the-rich-epetition
I'm beginning to understand why there are so few blogging platforms that work with #activitypub. I thought I'd make my own as a weekend project and while it shows up fine in https://browser.pub/, getting #mastodon to correctly display posts and followers is driving me absolutely crazy.
Why does Mastodon need its own weird special stuff? Why can't it just load the followers and outbox collections like the standard expects? WHY?
People of the Fediverse, stop everything. This is some true shit happening here: Two-Factor Authentication, a thread:
In French, the word for "factor" is "facteur". But it has another meaning: mailman. Yes, the one who delivers letters in your physical mailbox. For this reason, there is a funny meme in French where 2FA is in fact your mailman coming in and confirming that it's you.
"I came here to stand up for the rights of a minority... but this crowd looks like a majority." - Judit Hernádi
#BudapestPride today was illegal... but also the largest we had in 30 years. Incredible turnout. Trying to ban it made it stronger. Propaganda trying to make hate the majority opinion failed.
A handful of counter-protesters blockaded the Freedom Bridge (because irony is lost on them), but the parade moved one bridge over and passed them by.
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice
Great up-to-date post on the state of Linux and Wayland accessibility.
Also read:
And:
When I turned 36, I didn't think I'd make it to 40. I'm turning 40 this year and already excited about planning a party.
Transition saved my life. Happy Pride. 
