Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control

Image source: Bonfire. Article by Sarah Perez. TechCrunch – June 5, 2025.

Bonfire Social, a new framework for building communities on the open social web, launched on Thursday during the FediForum online conference. While Bonfire Social is a federated app, meaning it’s powered by the same underlying protocol as Mastodon (ActivityPub), it’s designed to be more modular and more customizable. That means communities on Bonfire have more control over how the app functions, which features and defaults are in place, and what their own roadmap and priorities will include. […]

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