Bug report:<p><br/></p><ul><li>Observed behaviour: navigating with my keyboard the "+" button doesn't seem to be selectable.</li><li>Expected behaviour: the "+" button should be among the first selected items.</li></ul>

To emphasize a bit, the "optimization" in "optimization for engagement" means that it isn’t meant to be manageable by marginalized people, which is very different from post-capitalistic services like Bonfire (or XMPP, IRC, or tabletop games, bookshops… places and activities famously biased towards conviviality).

As far as I’m concerned, for a capitalist, the "optimization" in "optimization for engagement" means "make X do Y as intensively as possible, regardless of their human rights". User metrics don’t necessarily imply it, silly me.

We’ve reached the point where a 128 GB Corsair Voyager USB key is about as expensive as a 128 GB SSD drive, while being safer and more practical than a standalone laptop for a students occupy where too many people will have brought their laptops anyway

("Solace" isn't the right word. It's inspiring.)

Also Muse are subtly hinting on the fact their album (Simulation Theory) is about capitalistic social media abuse, which is something I'm rooting for (not against Bonfire of course)

I also chased a few NPA comrades into sleeping – I didn't wake up at 4am to let them stay awake

I find solace inknowing that listening to Muse helps me to stay awake while mounting the guard

I’d welcome feedback on my own, or on my behaviour here in general. My goal is to help, not to bother or discourage contributors.

Another piece of feedback: I feel like broken thumbnails on Facebook, Twitter, and Mastodon are part of the global semantics meant to deprecate cognitive resources. It isn’t useful in itself; I guess the image is entirely downloaded anyway, but it forces the user to click on it, which gives them a sort of alert fatigue related to anything richer than about 120 words.<p><br/></p><p>Please either show images as clickable attachments (XMPP style, you don’t download it unless you ask your software to do it) or show them entirely in the feed (honk style). Maybe set the latter as default and let the user define the former as an option.</p><p><br/></p><p>@BonfireBuilders <a class="hashtag" data-tag="bonfire_feedback" href="https://playground.bonfire.cafe/hashtag/bonfire_feedback" rel="tag ugc">#bonfire_feedback</a></p>

Feature request: a Bonfire extension to gamify reading books (or scientific articles).<p><br/></p><p>A caveat IMHO would be to compare how many books one reads with their peers (or how good these books are, which I’m afraid would show through how many followers I have if I made a Bookwyrm account). On the other hand, the knowledge I’ll get by reading one is sometimes too speculative as a motivation.</p><p><br/></p><p>It isn’t as if Bonfire worsened attention deficit… but it could give its users the additional energy/motivation boost that they’d need to do it.</p><p><br/></p><p>@BonfireBuilders <a class="hashtag" data-tag="bonfire_feedback" href="https://playground.bonfire.cafe/hashtag/bonfire_feedback" rel="tag ugc">#bonfire_feedback</a></p>

Ok I’m gonna sum up my opinion of Bonfire.<p><br/></p><p>It’s good. I’ve been victim of many kinds of surveillance capitalism so I tend to be critical of social media as a concept, but Bonfire seems to be manageable.</p><p><br/></p><p>A key concept for capitalistic social media is scarcity. Whatever they’re offering, they’re making it deliberately scarce (e.g. attention) to increase its value and trick isolated people into chasing it (e.g. clout). ActivityPub was one step in a more social direction (with native videos, blog posts, events reading, regardless of fundamental flaws in Mastodon as a publishing tool that Gargron probably won’t fix; he doesn’t seem to care) and Bonfire also goes in this direction, to express it poorly it especially shows as a publishing platform, and the brain stimulation reward that I’ve always criticized about notifications is really more manageable.</p><p><br/></p><p>The last time I’ve used it on a computer (i.e. the last time I’ve posted, because the feature is broken on mobile) I’ve stayed for 2 hours on my computer (especially because installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi made me anxious). Going out in the evening, I’ve felt silly for being so suggestible and asked myself if, like 5 years ago, I had no identity, no singularity. I wonder how asocial people (e.g. isolated highschool students) will appropriate Bonfire and if they’ll get "hooked" anyway. If they can’t diversify their activities by meeting other people, maybe Bonfire could be used to gamify reading books (similarly to Bookwyrm, but without its drawbacks, i.e. having to manage a new account).</p>

The champions of debunking and the new information vigilantes are not interested in entertaining the possibility that the root cause of conspiracy theories may be located outside the mind and may require a reexamination of our economic and social arrangements. For them, the world is fine as it is; it is all a matter of bringing people in alignment with a reality which they fail to appreciate.

But what I’m trying to pinpoint is that the root causes for mental illness may be located outside the mind as well. Education, architecture, the structure of media… (Rather than the media contents themselves: from Twitter to RSS feeds to Gemini to the town library.)