Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates:

Bonfire 1.0.1 is out! 🎉
This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first delivery from the maintenance work funded by your incredible support. Thank you for helping us reach this milestone and keep Bonfire thriving!

For details about the release see our latest blog post: Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum

What’s next for crowdfunding?

If you're an existing backer, the pledge manager is now open. Please keep an eye out for updates there so we can start preparing rewards for you.

The campaign is open again for the next month. With core maintenance funded, every new pledge (or increased pledge from existing backers) now goes directly toward our first stretch goal: federated groups. Support or share our extended campaign to help fund community-owned, cross-instance spaces for real collaboration and self-governance.

Bonus good news: Thanks to a new grant, end-to-end encrypted messaging in Bonfire is now funded and in development!

Thank you once again for being part of the Bonfire movement! Your feedback, support, and community spirit make all of this possible. If you have questions or want to get involved, reach out or come say hello at FOSDEM if you’re in Brussels at the end of January!

With gratitude,
The Bonfire Team

A M6.8 earthquake struck offshore Japan today - another large earthquake from the subduction zone that produced two recent great earthquakes.

The earthquake was preceded by a "cascade up": foreshocks progressively increasing in maximum magnitude. What do we know about this earthquake, and about the hazard of the subduction zone? And what might happen next?

https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m68-earthquake-offshore-japan-preceded

Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.

It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.

Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

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The situation in Afghanistan is dire following the M6 earthquake on August 31st. More than 2,200 people have died; reports indicate that 65% of buildings in the region were destroyed.

Meanwhile, satellite imaging has begun to reveal both devastation and scientific details about the quake.

https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/updates-on-the-deadly-afghanistan

"Black and Gold"

This illustration will be available as a print through Nova&Mali's silent auction benefiting Gaza Soup Kitchen! 💜 Only until August 22.

Along with many other cool items here: https://www.32auctions.com/Novaandmali2025?r=1&t=all

#mastoart

This is so cool! The leading edge of the #tsunami from a few weeks ago was caught by the joint NASA/CNES SWOT satellite. The wave height was 45 cm.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/swot/us-french-swot-satellite-measures-tsunami-after-massive-quake/