Welcome @Hyuinkel 🤯

Looking at the local timeline it doesnt appear anyone else is posting - so Im guessing its not currently in heavy use?

hello, I am curious to explore this new medium

Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about when I say #seizethemeansofcommunity:

#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

and

SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity: Notes Towards a... Manifesto?

Hello world. Giving this bonfire thing a try. I look forward to seeing where it goes. Hopefully, it goes well.

Hello, Bonfire World!

I am an alter kacker (Yiddish; it sort of means "old fart"...only less sanitary) who lives at the very top of the island of Manhattan ("Upstate Manhattan") and who sees an urgent need to radically reformulate the soil from which American politics grows.

Towards that end I have uploaded a number of posts on my Mastodon feed ( https://mastodon.social/web/@baslow ) with the hashtag #seizethemeansofcommunity

Since an important part of that effort will, I think, necessarily be online I am hoping that Bonfire can be used as a basis for new forms of enriched and complex community-building...indeed, as part of an effort to reinvent our notions of community for the 21st century that we are facing...

http://www.sailwings.net/marktwo.html

this meets one of the criteria for good web content - self made website that hasnt been updated for a decade

Yeah we're definitely looking into how to resolve the slowdown 🤞 Thanks for all your testing so far!

I'm on Firefox under MacOS

Loading these feeds is so slow! Leaving this payground for today. Life is too short to wait so long for the screen. Goodnight.

Oh, are you on mobile?

I'm confused.

I haven't clicked <Share feedback> at all so, no, not that one. But is there a composer in the sidebar? Not in my sidebar, i think.

The only composer I've seen - writing a new post or replying to one - is a damn big one that occupies far more screen than it needs to do - 50% of the browser window area - with acres of white space, running down to the bottom of the browser window ( meaning that the drop-down menu on the <Public> button runs off the bottom of the window and is unreadable and inaccessible - if anything in fact lives there in the drop-down, apart from 'Public').

I would be very satisfied with a small composer in a sidebar, similar to Mastodon.

btw, what's the character limit on a post? Are they limitless? O dear 🙄

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: it seems URLs are not turned into links unless they're at the start of a line? in any case, it doesn't happen consistently...

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

☕ Currently reading: https://botpopuli.net/transforming-digital-platforms-for-the-people-and-planet/

"Exploring the paradox of social movements utilizing monopolized social media to promote messages of global justice while examining the means by which activists and the larger public can shift to freer and fairer options.

Monopolistic digital platforms have taken over our daily lives, which directly impacts the way social movements and civil societies build networks and solidarities across borders. The use of social media as tools for communication, messaging, advocacy, and even mobilization during crucial political moments (e.g., Black Lives Matter, Colombian, and Chilean collective risings) undercuts these platforms’ exploitation and commodification of their users. Most activists use social media platforms to raise awareness and amplify messages among large populations. Thus, the immediate dilemma faced by activists is either remaining subsumed and, in a way, contributing to the vicious exploitation of collective data, or losing a wider audience. This quandary can be addressed by using mainstream media while promoting a transition towards autonomous platforms that are designed and operate to put the well-being of people first."

Only if the quest in question is a fetch quest!

Questions are to quests what luncheons are to lunches.