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Ok I’m gonna sum up my opinion of Bonfire.

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.

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.

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).

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Ok I’m gonna sum up my opinion of Bonfire.

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.

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.

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).