Discussion
This is a meta-discussion about Fedizen.net, its development, and our ideas. Over time, we're hoping to cultivate feedback from a user community to make this thing more polished and accessible!
New Deployment: 1.1.0 RC 5!
Our instance, Fedizen.net, has been updated to Bonfire Community v1.1.0-rc.5! With every update, a lot of little things seem to solidify more and more. A big focus on this release cycle is federated groups, and we're doing our part to test them out and give feedback to the dev team.
Fedizen has been updated to 1.1.0-beta.21! There should be some improvements in some of the logic behind groups and the social UI, as well as Mastodon client support. While it's difficult to detail every little change, hopefully some quality-of-life adjustments will be noticeable!
Federated Groups!
Group functionality continues to mature for Bonfire Community, so I recommend that everyone ought to check out a group to join! I ended up joining Fediverse Memes from Feddit, but any group from Lemmy, NodeBB, MBin, or PieFed ought to work!
Client Testing
Keeping an ongoing list of mobile and Web clients to see what works, and what doesn't. We will try to add more over time, especially as we try to find possible "best-fit" apps.
Android
Tusky: mostly works, although there's occasional floods of invisible posts coming from PeerTube. Avatars, timelines, replies, and notifications all seem to function normally.
Moshidon: attempting to sign in results in the client not recognizing Fedizen as a Mastodon instance.
Web
Phanpy: Fails to recognize Fedizen as a Fediverse instance. Strange, because this works with other Bonfire instances just fine.
Circle Up!
One of Bonfire's premiere social features is Circles, which is kind of like a hybrid between an Access Control list and a Mastodon collection. We've been testing this feature for a while, and one of the more interesting use-cases has involved creating Starter Packs for Discovery purposes.
Circles can also be used to create custom feeds in Bonfire, which we're continuing to experiment with. If you're using Fedizen, you can follow everyone in a circle at the click of a button!
Feel free to check out two of our public circles:
FediDevs: fedizen.net/circle/01M49AFTC...
Fediverse Boosters: fedizen.net/circle/01M4C4WSP...
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