We're interested in opening up our instance a little bit to Fediverse power-users who want to help us dogfood #Bonfire. The environment seems to be mostly stable, but we're currently running on latest alpha / beta branches, so Here Be Dragons.

If you're interested in jumping over to a new instance and using it exclusively for a while, feel free to DM me for an invite!

Welley is an up and coming Fediverse platform that looks really nice. It's clean, has a ton of features, and seems to be inching closer to a full open source release.

You can learn all about it here: welley.com/

@Strypey Yes, that link should be good for about 10 uses total. Keep in mind, that counter goes down every time the link is used and a member is registered. However, the registration isn't treated as "real" until you click the confirmation link via email.

Regarding ATproto, we will probably rely on Bridgy Fed for the time being, as no module has been written for Bonfire specifically. We will probably investigate something similar for Nostr, when the time is right.

FediDB has a new comparison feature that lets you look at multiple platforms side by side and see what they have in common, and what's different. Pretty handy for picking out a #Fediverse platform to explore!

fedidb.com/software/compare?...

Every Godot release feels like Christmas for game developers. Their announcement pages are awesome, and there's often so many cool new things to try out.

fedizen.net/pub/objects/01M5...

Our instance has scheduled downtime for maintenance Saturday, October 17th. This is to address the issue of certain videos retaining an incorrect Object Storage URL.

We don't anticipate the fix taking more than a few hours, but it's going to require a lot of manual work to correct individual video entries.

I understand not everyone likes being called a "creator" nor "content creator" I don't mean anything negative by it. But, I'd really like to know some of your favorite artists, creators, bloggers, Peertubers, podcasters, vloggers, vtubers, YouTubers that are on #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #askfedi #askfediverse #creators #boostforreach

In case you missed it: Anil Dash's opening speech for this past #FediForum was really, really good.

You can watch it on #PeerTube here: spectra.video/w/wHfLPihmWqwF...

@nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party I think it's the Matrix Foundation itself that is hurting, I'm pretty sure Element itself is all under a private company.

Slightly annoyed by the state of Matrix bots, and the fact that the best way to get certain integrations working might be to set up a Discord chat, use a Discord bot, and bridge it to Matrix.

@Strypey Hey, happy to answer these questions!

1. Yes, we would absolutely be happy to host Fediverse.Party!

2. Overall, the server and service is stable, but you might occasionally see changes to the UI, adjustments to features, or bugs. Although Bonfire supports a limited portion of the Mastodon API, client support is pretty limited for right now. Tusky works, though.

3. Bonfire strictly supports ActivityPub, for better or worse. Not having compatibility with Diaspora may or may not be a deal-breaker, but Diaspora is the only platform that doesn't implement a common protocol used by almost everybody. With that said, Bonfire should work well with Bridgy Fed, so you'll at least get ATproto for free, and they might implement other protocols in the near future.

Let me know if you're still interested in this. 😁

Kia ora @rastin@lle-mystrieuse.tail1f90c7.ts.net, I found your account via stumbling upon your discussion with @julian@activitypub.space a couple of days ago. I see you mentioned you are developing ActivityPub software. Your profile mentions #Anahita. Is the one? Is his the code repo?

github.com/anahitasocial/ana...

@deadsuperhero We've been discussing hosting options for an [official fediverse.party account](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/9#issuecomment-23737785) (markdown support? WTF? Yeehaa! Anyway ...) and we'd settled on using a Friendica server hosted by the same folks who host nzoss.mastodon.nz, the longest-running fediverse service in Aotearoa (AFAIK). But I like the idea of having it here instead. A couple of questions;

• First and foremost, would you as admin be willing to host an official fediverse.party account? If you need to choose between honest and polite, go for the former ; )

• What known risks might we be taking by setting up an official account during the tire-kicking stage of a new service (obviously we have to guess about unknown risks for ourselves)?
• One of the benefits of using Friendica is its native support for Diaspora, Zot/Nomad, and maybe even ATProto (maybe not quite native, maybe plugins, but not relying on bridges). Is that something that Bonfire has, or has on the roadmap?

Do you have any questions for us? Feel free to ask them here or in the linked issue.

We're going through some infrastructure changes, and moving our social account over to Fedizen! We still plan on digging into the PeerTube server database sometime this week.

Like a hacker in a 90s movie, I'm in!

@ArmouredWizard@dice.camp Hey, that's really awesome. Can totally relate on unfinished projects, I've been doing that for about 20 years now. It's still a great experience, and every new effort teaches me something and gets me a little closer to making what I want.

My latest work has involved exploring 3D in Godot for the very first time. It's exciting and a bit intimidating, but I'm learning a lot! I hope to put out some short horror games as I continue to experiment.

If you're a #gamedev, and love to share what you're working on, feel free to like / boost this post and maybe tell me about your projects! I'd love to see more of that stuff in my feed. ♥️

Kind of a broad #ActivityPub question, for platforms implementing groups in the #Fediverse

We see maybe 2 or 3 different use-cases for how groups are leveraged in the Fediverse today:

1. Traditional Discussion Groups: Lemmy-style communities, NodeBB forum categories, basically a moderated Community Actor where people send activities to the group, and the group actor relays them to all group members.
2. Publication Groups: WordPress-style, the Group Actor represents a publication, and individual Actors serve as the article authors.
3. Structured Account Groups: PeerTube-style, the Account Actor is the parent object that delegates everything for Child Actors representing individual channels owned by that account.

So, I guess my question is: let's say your instance has an index of known remote groups. You just want to show discussion groups, not PeerTube accounts or Flipboard collections. How do you denote the discussion groups, and filter out the rest?

I'm completely obsessed with Peep Show. It's a brilliant look at daily life from people who are short-sighted, self-destructive, and have only the worst kind of self-awareness.

It's deeply uncomfortable, explores the weirdness of our own private thoughts and expressions, and is incredibly funny.

The sad truth about media streaming is that everything is split up between services so much now that it's impossible to watch everything you want to. It's the most annoying thing in the world to be told "I'm sorry, but your bundle of overpriced subscriptions do not apply, and will not get you this show that you've been looking for."

Also, depending on your choice of operating system, there's a high chance you can't even use the best dedicated app to watch it, and get a downgraded experience in the browser.

I've been building a Steam Machine / Kodi Box for this very scenario. As a final twist of the knife, it's very difficult to find the kind of media you're looking for for individual purpose, so there's a high likelihood you will have to pirate everything.