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Bonfire is built by communities, for communities—rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your tools, reclaim your data, and resist manipulation by shaping your own federated digital spaces.

Try our demo

Test the foundational social network on our staging instance. Federation is disabled by default.

Setup a new instance

Run bonfire on your server and connect with the rest of the fediverse, or use it as your local-only community.

Build an extension

Start building new apps or publish a new feature with the Bonfire Framework.

Our vision

Bonfire is a commons–a place to gather, co-create, and build something lasting–beyond products to be sold or services that use, abuse, or extract from you.

Bonfire is for anyone seeking greater agency, care, and flexibility. For the communities erased by online platforms in their race to scale. It's for those who want more than an app—they want a network they can shape.

Built for the long haul. By people, for people.

Does this sound like the kind of network you want to be part of?

Let’s build it — slowly, autonomously, together.

Configure

Effortlessly configure your favourite features, settings, and theme.

With Bonfire, you can shape a space that truly reflects your community's needs and aesthetic.

Interact

Connect, share, and engage with purpose.

Determine who sees your publications and activities and how your audience can interact with you for relevant and meaningful interactions.

Moderate

Moderate your network: safe, empowered, and inclusive

Foster a safe community environment with tools for users and moderators to flag or remove problematic content, and to silence, ghost, or block users or instances, fostering a harmonious community. Utilise custom roles to decentralize power, moving away from traditional admin-centered models.

Federate

Global reach: connect with communities far and wide

Embrace federation to interconnect with users on the wider fediverse, broadening your network and breaking down barriers.

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Lynn Foster

lynnfoster@social.coop

The most exciting thing about Bonfire to me is that they have set the stage to add all kinds of features integrated with the social networking core. Circles and groups to start, offers/wants... some day whole social/economic networks and ecosystems. Looking into the campfire, I can see a bright future for the fediverse.

Jorge Saturno

@jorge@red.niboe.info

Bonfire has the potential to bring federated social media to a new level. Its modular design will facilitate the creation of applications for all kind of purposes. We believe Bonfire will become the backbone of our future developments in the fields of open knowledge and science communication.

Bob Haugen

@bhaugen@social.coop

While I like Bonfire already, and love their care at making everything work smoothly, I am most excited by their future plans. I am working on community economic systems where the future Bonfire could be the main coordination medium.

Sam Liebeskind

@samliebeskind@mastodon.social

Really excited about the approach the @bonfire team is taking - building a modular toolkit that'll make it easier for community leaders to create their own federated social networks. It's sort of like "wordpress for the fediverse". Still early days, but definitely onto something 👀

Angel

The Weather Makers

We are loving Bonfire. We are actively exploring it to move our tools into Bonfire. Getting access to the Fediverse and to all the blocks looks really promising, to quickly develop community driven processes.

lebout2canap ⏚

@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net

Le projet @bonfire a mis à jour la page d'accueil de son site web. L'occasion de découvrir ou redécouvrir ce à quoi on doit s'attendre pour la future version 1. Je suis convaincu que #Bonfire aura un important rôle à jouer dans l'avenir du #Fediverse.

Mecha Code

@LibertyBeta@mastodon.social

Why see some #bluesky when you could all gather around the @bonfire

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Bonfire is built by communities, for communities—rooted in autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. Co-create your tools, reclaim your data, and resist manipulation by shaping your own federated digital spaces.

🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥

Introducing Mosaic - Partner with the Bonfire Team to Create Your Own Federated Digital Space

Understanding Navigation in LiveView Native

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Interest
Social Networks