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@leroy It's a separate platform using ActivityPub and can communicate with Mastodon, etc.
It's modular. Devs can create plug-ins to add features. For example, you can run different "apps", including social (Mastodon-like), community (Forum-like) while using the same core components but different feature sets.
The social app is the first release candidate, with a unique feature of boundaries, your posts can be shared to specific people within your "circles".
Haven't turned on Federation yet, but my Bonfire instance is looking good. My second install of Bonfire. I can tell you two things: Installation was much easier this time, and performance is much better.
One note, Bonfire recommends a hungry 8 GB of memory to run, but with that amount, it runs nicely so far. I'll keep you updated, hoping to turn federation on by next weekend. (This will be an invite only instance for brave individuals that want to assist with testing)
New NLNet Projects were recently announced, with a solid collection of ActivityPub related ones:
* Mastodon adding new features for institutional instances
* ActivityPub Polls for Wordpress
* Funkwhale Federation Improvements
* Making Events more interoperable between Fediverse Platforms
* Context Discovery in NodeBB
* Icosa 3-D Model Sharing with ActivityPub
Did I miss any?
Fediverse, we’ve got a new mascot! Meet Waffy from Wafrn
#Wafrn #Fediverse #activitypub https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/44d569e3-36ed-4761-a1ca-912d08e89c8b
@thisismissem Thanks for your advocacy work on this!
