The new Bonfire program allows users to build their own social societies, free from controlling the statute

Bonfire Social, a new framework for building on the open internet, launched on Thursday during Fediforum conference online. Although Bonfire Social is the Fedaged app, which means that it is supported by the same basic protocol as MASTODON (Activitypub), it was designed to be more unit and more customized. This means that Bonfire societies have more control over how the application works, the default features and assumptions, and what will include their road map and priorities.

There is definitely an annoying determination of the program, which describes itself as “all living things that flourish and thrive societies, free of special attention and capital control.”

In other words, its mission is to build social programs where people make decisions, not large technology platform makers like Meta or Google.

The organization itself as a non -profit organization funded by donations and grants, and does not require investment capital. Its code is open source, and works in cooperation with societies and researchers who use it to create and enhance digital spaces online.

Bonfire Social, which was now presented as a candidate to release 1.0 before the general release, is just one representation of what Bonfire offers. Bonfire is called “flavor”.

Each flavor is a package that has been previously composed of extensions, features of fire and virtual assumptions, such as the starting template. When the community chooses to run a specific “flavor”, it governs the application as it sees it appropriate, adding its own accessories and determining its own road map for product changes. This restores the social program under the control of users, instead of undergoing the whims of the platform maker with constantly changing groups and features.

The organization is already developing other flavors such as the Bonfire community and open science, and the Bonfire program allows any other community to create its own version.

In Bonfire Social, users will learn about familiar features, such as extracts and tools to follow users, share posts, create user profiles, science or content, and more.

However, it also provides other tools and features that traditional social networks may not contain, such as tools to customize extracts, support interrelated discussions, the ability to host multiple profiles for each user, rich text functions, and access control features.

Specialized summaries are a major distinction between shooting and traditional social media applications.

Although the idea of ​​adopting custom feed is something that has been circulated by newer social networks such as Bluesky or social browsers such as Flipboard, the tools needed to create these extracts are already preserved by third parties. Bonfire instead provides their own customized nutrition tools in a simple interface that does not require users to understand coding.

To build extracts, users can filter content and sort according to the type, date, level of participation and an example of the source and more, including something he calls “circles”.

Those who lived through Google+ era for social networks You may be aware of the concept of circles. On the social network of Google, users have organized contacts in groups, called circles, for improved participation. This concept lives in Bonfire, where the circle represents a list of people. This can be a group of friends, a group of fans, local users, organizers in a joint assistance set or anything else that users can reach. These circles are especially virtually, but can be shared with others.

Another unique feature in Bonfire Social is the border, which allows you to control who can see your content or deal with it. For example, you can share a post with a number of your circles, but you can just allow a specific circle of circle to suspend.

Bonfire also supports threaded conversations (overlapping discussions) where responses can be branched into their sub -arrests. This can be useful for societies, as deeper discussions and cooperation are more valuable than everyone in which everyone competes.

In addition, Bonfire users can customize the application using one of the sixteen compact topics, or they can design their own layout and choose their own colors and lines.

Fire accounts can also host multiple profiles that have their followers, content and settings. This may be useful for those who simply prefer to obtain public and private profiles, but also for those who need to share a specific profile with others – such as a company profile, a publication, collective or legitimate team.

Other features available at launch include PWA’s support for mobile devices, community -based signs, supported expressive symbols, searching for a full text (with cancellation of subscription), direct messages, private group discussions (also with interconnected interconnection indicators), and more. The extensions, which add different features, can be enabled or disabled by both supervisors and users. Immigrants simply decide what to pay off.

This means that users can run or stop the features they do not like, even the basic features such as likes or reinforcements (the federal version of redress/republishing).

Since Bonfire is based on Activitypub, it also trains with Mastodon, Pertube, Mobilizon and others.

The program is supposed to be self -installed, although it is working on it Development of a hosting network ongoing. For those who just want to kick the tires, Experimental is available.