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Building blocks for communities

Creating digital spaces we actually control.
No billionaires, no algorithms, no enshittification.
We shape our own open social web.

Bonfire is open, community-first social infrastructure. A digital commons where people gather, co-create, and care together.

While Big Tech centralises for profit and blockchain prizes sovereignty over solidarity, both leave collective care and real community needs behind. They erase communities in the race to scale. They turn social life into products that use, abuse, or extract from us.

Bonfire offers a different path: trusted communities with real autonomy and participatory governance, interconnected across the open web. It empowers communities to shape digital spaces that reflect shared values, like autonomy, mutual care, and collective power.

We design for communities, not abstract “users”. We focus on relationships, not engagement metrics. We're building for the long haul, not for scale or profit.

Custom feeds
Build ad-hoc feeds with a simple interface: filter and sort by content type, circle, date, engagement, source instance, and more. Save presets and arrange them however you like.
Circles
Circles are lists of people (e.g., “local friends”, “team”, “mutual aid crew”). Each circle has its own feed with posts from members.
Boundaries
Choose who can see, reply, quote, or even edit a post. For example: make a post public but accept replies only from a specific circle. Boundaries are compatible with GoToSocial interaction controls and Mastodon quote authorisations.
Your data, your freedom

Moving between instances shouldn't mean starting from scratch. Seamlessly migrate your entire social presence (including posts, follows, circles, and bookmarks) with Bonfire's comprehensive import tools and migration dashboard.

Connect beyond boundaries

Join a network of millions across Mastodon, PeerTube, Mobilizon, and the wider fediverse using ActivityPub. Protocol bridges also connect you with Bluesky and beyond, breaking down walls between social platforms.

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Why Bonfire
Open Source
Community driven
Federated
Modular
Not for sale
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