Does Bonfire have any public instances?
I noticed Bonfire is getting a lot of positive attention lately, and I wanted to try it out. They don't have a directory of instances yet. Do you have any instances that you recommend.
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abeorch
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Rimu
in reply to Twoafros • • •Not really anything serious.
By poking around bonfire.fediverse.observer/lis… I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say "demo and testing instance":
Try:
discussions.sciety.org/
bonfire.home.coop/
It's kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.
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in reply to Rimu • • •Thank you for sharing the links! I just signed to one of them.
I am also surprised how much money they were able to raise. I hope they deliver on the things they promised
wjs018
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in reply to wjs018 • • •I know, right.
After they've finished doing maintenance no one will be able to see any visible difference and will just have to believe them when they ask for more money. They were upfront about that so maybe it'll go ok but yeah seems risky as hell.
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INeedMana
in reply to Twoafros • • •What is Bonfire? Plural by design
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in reply to INeedMana • • •You got flavors which is a set of features pre-selected features. One of them offer microblogging but you can completely disable it or choose another flavor. You can build with bonfire any type of platform like an peer tube and pixeled alternative or even novel applications like a platform for collaborative peer review in science
I think it is a big mistake to have an clone to mastodon as a demo. Instead of promoting the unique capabilities
INeedMana
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is for testing Bonfire Social, the microblogging part. (This one not federated)
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