Zappa

Using the power of community to counteract misinformation
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How can Bonfire and Zappa promote a better and safer social networking experience ?
Flexible audiences & granular permissions
Users are able to define who can discover, read or interact with them and their content/activities with a granular set of permissions (known as boundaries in bonfire).
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Opt-in moderation lists for blocked and verified content
Users can create or subscribe to opt-in moderation lists, and - according to permissions - contribute to them. Such opt-in lists may include flagged and blocked content, as well as trusted and verified content.
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Roles & moderation
The community can decide to decentralise power and responsibility from admins by adding more custom roles to efficiently manage moderation and resolve conflicts.
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Manual and automatic labelling
Users, moderation list editors, or instance moderators can add labels to content, either by hand or by creating filters for auto-labelling. Labels are shown in feeds to aid with quickly identifying certain aspects of information or misinformation.
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Blog posts about Zappa:

How to use boundaries, circles and roles

"One does not need to set themselves on fire to keep other people warm."

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Introducing circles and boundaries

How will our online experiences be different once we take back control over exactly who should see, interact with, and even collaborate on our content and activities at the most granular level?

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Meet us at the playground: Bonfire Social beta launch

Today, the Bonfire team is asking for *your* help with beta testing. Bonfire still needs a lot of work - be it bugs, federation, missing features, configurability and user experience - but that's the point, we decided to launch the playground at this gnarly stage with the specific intention of moving toward the 1.0 release as a community.

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Not Just 'Yet Another Microblog'

We're now days away from the beta release of Bonfire, a federated app toolkit. When beta users get their hands on it, however, they might be confused wait, this looks like just another microblogging app! haven't we already got enough of those?

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Notes on our first usability testing round

On May 10th we published a toot asking for volunteers to dive into our upcoming beta of Bonfire Social, by participating in some usability testing sessions.

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First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user research

One thing I’ve learned from spending all of my adult life online and being involved in lots of innovation projects is that you can have the best bookmarking system in the world, but it means nothing if you don’t do something with the stuff you’ve bookmarked...

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Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)

One of the things about working openly is, fairly obviously, sharing your work as you go. This can be difficult for many reasons, not least because of the human tendency toward narrative, to completed stories with start, middle, and end...

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Countering misinformation in federated social networks, an introduction to the Zappa project

One thing I’ve learned from spending all of my adult life online and being involved in lots of innovation projects is that you can have the best bookmarking system in the world, but it means nothing if you don’t do something with the stuff you’ve bookmarked...

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Announcing the Zappa project

We are pleased to announce that Bonfire has been awarded a grant from the Culture of Solidarity Fund to support cross-border cultural initiatives of solidarity in times of uncertainty and "infodemic".

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