Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They’ll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.
It was never popular outside Brazil and India, but Orkut, Google’s first social network, was based around groups and it was fantastic. I miss their structure tremendously.
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Groups is what’s missing in Friendica to pull it all together and replace Facebook.
Is it like Microsoft Teams but not evil?
See my other comment: https://piefed.zip/post/786779#comment_2663595
Is it like MSN groups? Cause I loved that shit as a kid
MSN was great
Bonfire seems like a very good project, I like the philosophy behind it (beyond platforms, like some criticism raised recently), but it’s a bit concerning that none of the instances seem to have any active users: https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list
Edit: found two:
I see Bonfire mentioned a lot on the fediverse report and elsewhere, but I still don’t understand what it is. I went to their website and it’s a wall of text that sounds like marketing. I don’t see a demo or a flagship instance.
Thanks for the sciety link. It looks like a half broken mastodon feed. So it’s a microblogging thing apparently?
I caught a lot of flak for a similar observation ages ago. Apparently I was the idiot because I wasn’t interested in parsing corporate waffle.
I found the demo instance: https://campground.bonfire.cafe/
Regarding the project itself, it’s supposed to be a mix of Mastodon/Piefed/Nextcloud
It kind of reminds of comments people made about “APub should not try to replicate corporate platforms, and just have the content available for everyone, then let the front-ends present it in different ways” in this thread: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/779852/is-pixelfed-sawing-off-the-branch-that-the-fediverse-is-sitting-on#post_replies
The execution however is less than ideal.
