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This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and open social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can scroll down to your favorite section.

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

Featured Item(s)

Shurish Kalkarni writes:

… the path forward for journalism isn’t a technology problem or a business model problem – at least not primarily. It’s a relationship problem. And relationship problems require a fundamentally different set of tools, skills and values than the ones the industry has traditionally invested in.

The disconnect between what the industry is doing and what it really needs is jarring. Ask yourself how many so-called “audience-centric” strategies, frameworks and consultants you’ve heard about. Hundreds right? Now ask yourself how much of that work is built out of actually speaking to citizens and listening to them. Not so many.

That gap – between claiming to center audiences and actually speaking to them – is exactly where the logical fallacy lives.

Journalism’s Logical Fallacy

Christine Lemmer-Webber writes:

it feels like there’s a massive coordinated attack on internet freedoms. But it also feels like the wind is out of the sails of these fights, which is alarming, because the stakes have never been higher.

Who’s coordinating all these? What money is pushing it? Palantir? Heritage Foundation types? Large, centralization-enthused orgs like Meta? All of the above? It’s hard to tell. But there’s certainly a lot of money flowing underfoot.

But it’s not just the coordinated attack. The fight itself feels deflated, in ways the fight for the internet hasn’t been before. Sure, we have orgs like the ACLU, the Open Rights Group, the EFF, Fight for the Future, the usual suspects all fighting for the rights of the internet. And that’s great.

But there’s something else.

It feels like people are tired.

What happened to the fight for the Internet?

Let’s stay on our feet and keep swinging. Take breaks when you need to. Your second, third, fourth, and fifth winds will come back. It’s a permanent battle.

CMSs

Peter Gambos says:

People still want small, personal corners of the web

Ah, oui. Et damn straight.

And Jack Yan says:

Sixteen years on, farewell to WordPress’s Akismet plug-in

Paweł Grzybek isn’t buying the hype:

My blog is not on the AT Protocol, standard.site is not for me

Leaflet

Leaflet Lab introduces:

Atmosphere Field Reporter Corps

Ghost

Magic Pages shows us:

How to stop spam signups on your Ghost membership site

The real cost of self-hosting Ghost in 2026

Build Awesome

Adam DJ Brett has:

Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia

Enabling Webmentions in Eleventy (11ty)

11tyx5: Five Whitestone Foundation Sites, Eleventy, and the Long Open Web

Tools

Caisse des Depots announces:

EuroCommons

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:

The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF

The Free Software Foundation Europe reports:

DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time

The Guardian reports:

UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores

The UK now has a chance to turn away from fascism and start walking their talk with things like this.

DB reports:

The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching climate change

Newsletters

The University of Groningen Library says:

We are exploring whether we can use an open source platform for our newsletters

Thanks to this post, I discovered Keila and Listmonk. If you’re in Europe, Keila is the choice.

Small Web

scientiac::syntropy shares:

A too Brief Intro to Smolweb

Chat / Team Chat

Signal announces:

Signal is working on sticker replies, linked Android tablets are getting closer, and more

Browsers

Servo shares:

May in Servo: user scripts, mp4 compat, blackboxing in DevTools, and more!

Writing

LibreOffice explores:

The invisible architecture of lock-in: the layering of dependencies

In other words, fuck anything that is even 1% connected to MicroSlop. And that includes EuroOffice. I can’t abide sovereignty washing.

It’s FOSS reports:

Collabora Office 26.04 Keeps AI Optional and Refines Writer and Calc

Unfortunately, this is about as good as we will get for a while on the “AI” front.

9to5Linux reports:

Calibre 9.11 E-Book Manager Adds Support for Exporting Annotations as HTML Pages

Creative

David Benqué is starting:

Luddite Academy; Towards a politicised digital creative practice

9to5Linux reports:

Shotcut 26.6 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Vulkan on Linux Support

Linux / Open Android

GrapheneOS announces:

Compose TextField has bugs which cause compatibility issues with AOSP keyboard

FuriLabs announces:

FuriOS 14.0.3 is now released!

9to5 Linux reports:

Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop

MNT provides its:

MNT June 2026 Update

Larvitz Blog examines:

Upgrading FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE to 15.1-RELEASE: The Official Paths

F-Droid looks at:

What We Talk About When We Talk About Malware

Has it been a while since we said fuck Google?

This week’s featured OMN tool

Harper Spell Check

Harper is a solid and free grammar checker that respects your privacy.

Harper

Programming

BeOrg App looks at:

Using WebDAV to connect beorg to cloud storage providers

Murat Çorlu has:

Using inline partials in Ghost Themes

Using contentFor helper in Ghost Themes

Markdown

Dan shares:

CSS tricks for markdown blogs

CSS

Lee Cattarin recommends:

core CSS

Dripyard explains:

Why CSS Style Queries Are a Bigger Deal Than You Think

Frontend Masters explores:

Fluid Typography with progress()

JavaScript

Kami’s Corner shares:

I made an HTML quiz maker!

AI

Platformer reports:

Why the tech industry can’t keep up with the AI backlash

Mindful Design promotes:

By Humans, For Humans

Other

XWiki shares:

Take back control from Atlassian: The open-source alternative stack built by XWiki and OpenProject

This week’s featured programming tool

OpenProject

Open source project management software for open source developers.

OpenProject

ActivityPub

The Social Web Foundation explains:

Unsubscribing tags.pub from Open Registration Relays

Annette Schwindt shows us how to:

Make a Mastodon Follow-Up Link from WordPress Blogs available externally

This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool

ActivityPub Book

This is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs.

The ActivityPub Book

Permanent aside here

This is necessary because many people aren’t able to comprehend this -> the Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, or otherwise) and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise). Corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

Also, you can avoid surveillance on the Fediverse if you want to (and choose the correct tools) but not on the Atmosphere.

So, recognize their natures and don’t fucking ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why I have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

The European Commission issues a:

New call for proposals to shape safer and more inclusive social media platforms

IFTAS announces:

The annual Social Web Operations Survey from @iftas is open!

If applicable to you, please complete the survey. It’s truly important. And donate if you can.

Checkfirst Network has:

Roska Bridge: How a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda

Wallabag IT explains:

Pourquoi wallabag.it fait le choix des services européens

wallabag.it va financer des développements reversés à wallabag

Mobilizon announces:

The alternative to Facebook groups and events, as well as Meetup releases version, 5.2.4

PeerTube announces:

We’ve released #PeerTube 8.2.2!

The GFSC Community explains:

Why we discontinued our Mastodon server

If you’re a larger community than GFSC, Bonfire would be the better fit (though hosting may not be any more inexpensive). Plus, you can lock it down and avoid the outside abuse and inept regulation issues.

But, the main point is this: if you’re small (and income challenged) you need to join the instance that fits you best and not self-host one on your own. It’s easier to donate to your instance admin than manage and pay for infrastructure. And just in case, educate yourself on how to migrate away from it.

Bonfire

Bonfire announces:

Bonfire Social 1.0.5: Archipelago!

Archipelago lets you federate only with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people, groups and servers, and keep everything else out by default. So, for example two Manade instances could federate with each other but nothing else.

RSS

FreshRSS announces a:

Breaking Change

XMPP

Movim announces:

Movim 0.31.4 is out, and it’s a security-focused release!

Goffi says:

XEP-0516 “XMPP Decentralized ID (XID)” has been published

Other Federated Social Media

B. Prendergast creates an archive of:

Unique Mu.social features

Thank you Eurosky for creating Mu.

Elena Rossini asks:

W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?

Open Future asks:

W-Social: What does sovereignty mean for social media?

Grifting isn’t sovereignty BTW.

Politically Inclined reports:

W Social? More Of An L, Actually

If L stands for loser, it’s actually more of a C. And we all know what that stands for. It’s certainly run by them.

Pizza Thoughts explores:

The AT-URI Syntax Mess

Holobrine examines:

PDS Address Books

Happy View announces:

HappyView v2.10

rpg.actor has:

Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere

CTAs

That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
Follow us on Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at @thefulcrum.eurosky.social on ATProto for daily coverage.
Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto!

And please build something for a community! We’re building Manade.

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47:T2bf6,This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and open social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can scroll down to your favorite section. FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em. Featured Item(s) Shurish Kalkarni writes: … the path forward for journalism isn’t a technology problem or a business model problem – at least not primarily. It’s a relationship problem. And relationship problems require a fundamentally different set of tools, skills and values than the ones the industry has traditionally invested in. The disconnect between what the industry is doing and what it really needs is jarring. Ask yourself how many so-called “audience-centric” strategies, frameworks and consultants you’ve heard about. Hundreds right? Now ask yourself how much of that work is built out of actually speaking to citizens and listening to them. Not so many. That gap – between claiming to center audiences and actually speaking to them – is exactly where the logical fallacy lives. Journalism’s Logical Fallacy Christine Lemmer-Webber writes: it feels like there’s a massive coordinated attack on internet freedoms. But it also feels like the wind is out of the sails of these fights, which is alarming, because the stakes have never been higher. Who’s coordinating all these? What money is pushing it? Palantir? Heritage Foundation types? Large, centralization-enthused orgs like Meta? All of the above? It’s hard to tell. But there’s certainly a lot of money flowing underfoot. But it’s not just the coordinated attack. The fight itself feels deflated, in ways the fight for the internet hasn’t been before. Sure, we have orgs like the ACLU, the Open Rights Group, the EFF, Fight for the Future, the usual suspects all fighting for the rights of the internet. And that’s great. But there’s something else. It feels like people are tired. What happened to the fight for the Internet? Let’s stay on our feet and keep swinging. Take breaks when you need to. Your second, third, fourth, and fifth winds will come back. It’s a permanent battle. CMSs Peter Gambos says: People still want small, personal corners of the web Ah, oui. Et damn straight. And Jack Yan says: Sixteen years on, farewell to WordPress’s Akismet plug-in Paweł Grzybek isn’t buying the hype: My blog is not on the AT Protocol, standard.site is not for me Leaflet Leaflet Lab introduces: Atmosphere Field Reporter Corps Ghost Magic Pages shows us: How to stop spam signups on your Ghost membership site The real cost of self-hosting Ghost in 2026 Build Awesome Adam DJ Brett has: Publishing Your Eleventy Blog on the AT Protocol with Standard.site and Sequoia Enabling Webmentions in Eleventy (11ty) 11tyx5: Five Whitestone Foundation Sites, Eleventy, and the Long Open Web Back to top 👆🏼 Tools Caisse des Depots announces: EuroCommons The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports: The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF The Free Software Foundation Europe reports: DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time The Guardian reports: UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores The UK now has a chance to turn away from fascism and start walking their talk with things like this. DB reports: The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching climate change Newsletters The University of Groningen Library says: We are exploring whether we can use an open source platform for our newsletters Thanks to this post, I discovered Keila and Listmonk. If you’re in Europe, Keila is the choice. Small Web scientiac::syntropy shares: A too Brief Intro to Smolweb Chat / Team Chat Signal announces: Signal is working on sticker replies, linked Android tablets are getting closer, and more Browsers Servo shares: May in Servo: user scripts, mp4 compat, blackboxing in DevTools, and more! Writing LibreOffice explores: The invisible architecture of lock-in: the layering of dependencies In other words, fuck anything that is even 1% connected to MicroSlop. And that includes EuroOffice. I can’t abide sovereignty washing. It’s FOSS reports: Collabora Office 26.04 Keeps AI Optional and Refines Writer and Calc Unfortunately, this is about as good as we will get for a while on the “AI” front. 9to5Linux reports: Calibre 9.11 E-Book Manager Adds Support for Exporting Annotations as HTML Pages Creative David Benqué is starting: Luddite Academy; Towards a politicised digital creative practice 9to5Linux reports: Shotcut 26.6 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Vulkan on Linux Support Linux / Open Android GrapheneOS announces: Compose TextField has bugs which cause compatibility issues with AOSP keyboard FuriLabs announces: FuriOS 14.0.3 is now released! 9to5 Linux reports: Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop MNT provides its: MNT June 2026 Update Larvitz Blog examines: Upgrading FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE to 15.1-RELEASE: The Official Paths F-Droid looks at: What We Talk About When We Talk About Malware Has it been a while since we said fuck Google? This week’s featured OMN tool Harper Spell Check Harper is a solid and free grammar checker that respects your privacy. Harper Back to top 👆🏼 Programming BeOrg App looks at: Using WebDAV to connect beorg to cloud storage providers Murat Çorlu has: Using inline partials in Ghost Themes Using contentFor helper in Ghost Themes Markdown Dan shares: CSS tricks for markdown blogs CSS Lee Cattarin recommends: core CSS Dripyard explains: Why CSS Style Queries Are a Bigger Deal Than You Think Frontend Masters explores: Fluid Typography with progress() JavaScript Kami’s Corner shares: I made an HTML quiz maker! AI Platformer reports: Why the tech industry can’t keep up with the AI backlash Mindful Design promotes: By Humans, For Humans Other XWiki shares: Take back control from Atlassian: The open-source alternative stack built by XWiki and OpenProject This week’s featured programming tool OpenProject Open source project management software for open source developers. OpenProject Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub The Social Web Foundation explains: Unsubscribing tags.pub from Open Registration Relays Annette Schwindt shows us how to: Make a Mastodon Follow-Up Link from WordPress Blogs available externally This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Book This is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs. The ActivityPub Book Back to top 👆🏼 Permanent aside here This is necessary because many people aren’t able to comprehend this -> the Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, or otherwise) and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise). Corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts. Also, you can avoid surveillance on the Fediverse if you want to (and choose the correct tools) but not on the Atmosphere. So, recognize their natures and don’t fucking ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why I have accounts on both platforms and use them differently. Fediverse The European Commission issues a: New call for proposals to shape safer and more inclusive social media platforms IFTAS announces: The annual Social Web Operations Survey from @iftas is open! If applicable to you, please complete the survey. It’s truly important. And donate if you can. Checkfirst Network has: Roska Bridge: How a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda Wallabag IT explains: Pourquoi wallabag.it fait le choix des services européens wallabag.it va financer des développements reversés à wallabag Mobilizon announces: The alternative to Facebook groups and events, as well as Meetup releases version, 5.2.4 PeerTube announces: We’ve released #PeerTube 8.2.2! The GFSC Community explains: Why we discontinued our Mastodon server If you’re a larger community than GFSC, Bonfire would be the better fit (though hosting may not be any more inexpensive). Plus, you can lock it down and avoid the outside abuse and inept regulation issues. But, the main point is this: if you’re small (and income challenged) you need to join the instance that fits you best and not self-host one on your own. It’s easier to donate to your instance admin than manage and pay for infrastructure. And just in case, educate yourself on how to migrate away from it. Bonfire Bonfire announces: Bonfire Social 1.0.5: Archipelago! Archipelago lets you federate only with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people, groups and servers, and keep everything else out by default. So, for example two Manade instances could federate with each other but nothing else. Back to top 👆🏼 More RSS FreshRSS announces a: Breaking Change XMPP Movim announces: Movim 0.31.4 is out, and it’s a security-focused release! Goffi says: XEP-0516 “XMPP Decentralized ID (XID)” has been published Other Federated Social Media B. Prendergast creates an archive of: Unique Mu.social features Thank you Eurosky for creating Mu. Elena Rossini asks: W Social: a Broken Ghost Town? Open Future asks: W-Social: What does sovereignty mean for social media? Grifting isn’t sovereignty BTW. Politically Inclined reports: W Social? More Of An L, Actually If L stands for loser, it’s actually more of a C. And we all know what that stands for. It’s certainly run by them. Pizza Thoughts explores: The AT-URI Syntax Mess Holobrine examines: PDS Address Books Happy View announces: HappyView v2.10 rpg.actor has: Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at @thefulcrum.eurosky.social on ATProto for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! We’re building Manade. 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And it's also fairly intuitive so let's K.I.S.S. Let's go. This article will show how to you create your account, set up your profiles, and get comfortable with the basics of following other users. This assumes you have chosen the community instance you want to join or have been invited to join one. See [It's Time to Savor the Flavours of Bonfire](https://site.manade.org/notes/time-to-savor-flavours-bonfire) for more information. ![Bonfire login screenshot](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/3103dd1a36-1782029999/sign-up-bonfire.png) Login via Bonfire (image above) or an instance generated invitation (image below). ![Screenshot of invitation generation](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/5cd2b21f31-1782157407/bonfire-invite-manade-web.jpg) ### Signing Up Visit the Bonfire instance you want to join (e.g. https://yourinstance.tld). Or use the link in your invitation. Click Sign Up and fill in your desired username, email, and password. Check your email for a confirmation link. Confirm yo self by clicking the link in the email. ![Screenshot of Bonfire profile setup](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/b8a5d7d424-1782030537/edit-bonfire-profile-web.jpg) ### Creating and Managing Profiles After signing up, you can create multiple profiles under your account. This is unique to Bonfire. For example: - A personal profile for friends and family - A work profile for professional contacts - A project or community profile (which you can share with collaborators Note that Manade will only allow community-based profiles. Regular Bonfire allows federation with the world. To create or manage profiles: - Go to your account settings and select Profiles. - Click Create Profile to add a new one. - Set a username, display name, and bio - Choose privacy settings for each profile: - People need to make a request before they can follow me: When enabled, others must send a follow request that you approve before they can follow this profile. - Make my profile publicly discoverable: When enabled, your profile can be found in Bonfire directories, the fediverse, and search engines. - Make my content searchable: When enabled, your posts and content can be indexed and found via search in Bonfire, the fediverse, and search engines. - Switch between profiles as needed when posting or interacting. Note: By default, your different profiles are not publicly linked. Each one appears as a separate identity. Again, this is unique to Bonfire. And once again, Manade communities are not federated by default. Your admin will have to enable federation if the community agrees to it. ![Screenshot of create a new profile Manade](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/76b06c5884-1782033996/add-profile-manade-screenshot-web.jpg) ### Completing Your Profile Add a display name and avatar (to each profile) to help others recognize you. Write a short bio (for each profile) to introduce yourself. Choose the right settings for each profile. ![Screenshot of Bonfire search field](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/65b99d5644-1782034255/profile-setting-screenshot-web.jpg) ## Finding People & Following Them Bonfire makes it easy to connect with others across your instance and the wider Fediverse. ### How to Find People Search: Use the search bar to find people by username, display name, or full Fediverse address (e.g. @alex@bonfire.community.social). Shared Circles: Discover people through shared circles and groups. ![Screen shot of Bonfire instance's users](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/177815a3b1-1782033568/circle-bonfire-screenshot-web.jpg) User Directory: Most Bonfire instances have a user directory you can browse. Look for the "Users" link in the sidebar or navigation menu. Instance Directory: Some open instances list other known federated communities. Find the "Instances" link in the sidebar for discovery. For more on Boundaries, Circles, Groups, Feeds, etc. see [Bonfire, a Social Platform Apart](https://site.manade.org/notes/bonfire-a-social-platform-apart). ![Screenshot of Manade profile](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/b3a06381d8-1782032967/follow-manade-screenshot-web.jpg) ### Following Profiles Click the Follow button on any profile to receive their public posts and updates in your feed. If the profile requires approval, your follow request will be sent for review. You can follow profiles from your own instance. You can also follow groups and circles. If you find a profile on another Fediverse instance, you can follow them by copying their full address and searching for it on your own instance. Again this will work if your admin enables it. ![Screenshot of Manade following page](https://site.manade.org/media/pages/notes/set-up-bonfire-account/3e3aae59e4-1782034530/following-manade-screenshot-web.jpg) ### Managing Your Connections View and manage your followed profiles in your account’s "Following" section. Organize connections using circles and use custom feeds to filter their posts and activities. ### Tips You can follow multiple profiles from the same person (if they use Bonfire’s multi-profile feature). Use circles to group people by interest, relationship, or context. Explore directories and circles to find new people and communities. You can also follow any default feeds of your instance. ## That's it Hopefully, this short (for us) article gives you what you need to get started in your Bonfire / Manade community. Throw off the chains of techno feudalism with this democratic techno anarchism-friendly tech. For more information on using Bonfire, [visit the docs](https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/getting-started.html). Thanks for reading and build something for a / your community! Hopefully an Bonfire / Manade instance.49:T1440,A test for publishing to WordPress from Standard.Horse Take a seat at the Bonfire and get started on freeing yourself from Techno Feudalism. AKA how to set up your account in a private community that isn't enshittified with corporate grift. Let's Go This article is heavily paraphrased / aka stolen from Bonfire's documentation. I think they are cool with it. And it saves you digging through the docs which most people don't explore anyway. And it's also fairly intuitive so let's K.I.S.S. Let's go. This article will show how to you create your account, set up your profiles, and get comfortable with the basics of following other users. This assumes you have chosen the community instance you want to join or have been invited to join one. See It's Time to Savor the Flavours of Bonfire for more information. Bonfire login screenshot Login via Bonfire (image above) or an instance generated invitation (image below). Screenshot of invitation generation Signing Up Visit the Bonfire instance you want to join (e.g. https\://yourinstance.tld). Or use the link in your invitation. Click Sign Up and fill in your desired username, email, and password. Check your email for a confirmation link. Confirm yo self by clicking the link in the email. Screenshot of Bonfire profile setup Creating and Managing Profiles After signing up, you can create multiple profiles under your account. This is unique to Bonfire. For example: A personal profile for friends and family A work profile for professional contacts A project or community profile (which you can share with collaborators Note that Manade will only allow community-based profiles. Regular Bonfire allows federation with the world. To create or manage profiles: Go to your account settings and select Profiles. Click Create Profile to add a new one. Set a username, display name, and bio Choose privacy settings for each profile: People need to make a request before they can follow me: When enabled, others must send a follow request that you approve before they can follow this profile. Make my profile publicly discoverable: When enabled, your profile can be found in Bonfire directories, the fediverse, and search engines. Make my content searchable: When enabled, your posts and content can be indexed and found via search in Bonfire, the fediverse, and search engines. Switch between profiles as needed when posting or interacting. Note: By default, your different profiles are not publicly linked. Each one appears as a separate identity. Again, this is unique to Bonfire. And once again, Manade communities are not federated by default. Your admin will have to enable federation if the community agrees to it. Screenshot of create a new profile Manade Completing Your Profile Add a display name and avatar (to each profile) to help others recognize you. Write a short bio (for each profile) to introduce yourself. Choose the right settings for each profile. Screenshot of Bonfire search field Finding People & Following Them Bonfire makes it easy to connect with others across your instance and the wider Fediverse. How to Find People Search: Use the search bar to find people by username, display name, or full Fediverse address (e.g. @alex\@bonfire.community.social). Shared Circles: Discover people through shared circles and groups. Screen shot of Bonfire instance's users User Directory: Most Bonfire instances have a user directory you can browse. Look for the "Users" link in the sidebar or navigation menu. Instance Directory: Some open instances list other known federated communities. Find the "Instances" link in the sidebar for discovery. For more on Boundaries, Circles, Groups, Feeds, etc. see Bonfire, a Social Platform Apart. Screenshot of Manade profile Following Profiles Click the Follow button on any profile to receive their public posts and updates in your feed. If the profile requires approval, your follow request will be sent for review. You can follow profiles from your own instance. You can also follow groups and circles. If you find a profile on another Fediverse instance, you can follow them by copying their full address and searching for it on your own instance. Again this will work if your admin enables it. Screenshot of Manade following page Managing Your Connections View and manage your followed profiles in your account’s "Following" section. Organize connections using circles and use custom feeds to filter their posts and activities. Tips You can follow multiple profiles from the same person (if they use Bonfire’s multi-profile feature). Use circles to group people by interest, relationship, or context. Explore directories and circles to find new people and communities. You can also follow any default feeds of your instance. That's it Hopefully, this short (for us) article gives you what you need to get started in your Bonfire / Manade community. Throw off the chains of techno feudalism with this democratic techno anarchism-friendly tech. For more information on using Bonfire, visit the docs. Thanks for reading and build something for a / your community! 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AKA how to set up your account in a private community that isn't enshittified with corporate grift. Let's Go This article is heavily paraphrased / aka stolen from Bonfire's documentation. I think they are cool with it. And it saves you digging through the docs which most people don't explore anyway. And it's also fairly intuitive so let's K.I.S.S. Let's go. This article will show how to you create your account, set up your profiles, and get comfortable with the basics of following other users. This assumes you have chosen the community instance you want to join or have been invited to join one. See It's Time to Savor the Flavours of Bonfire for more information. Sign-up-Bonfire Login via Bonfire (image above) or an instance generated invitation (image below). bonfire-invite-manade-web Signing Up Visit the Bonfire instance you want to join (e.g. https\://yourinstance.tld). Or use the link in your invitation. Click Sign Up and fill in your desired username, email, and password. Check your email for a confirmation link. Confirm yo self by clicking the link in the email. profile-setting-screenshot-web Creating and Managing Profiles After signing up, you can create multiple profiles under your account. This is unique to Bonfire. For example: A personal profile for friends and family A work profile for professional contacts A project or community profile (which you can share with collaborators Note that Manade will only allow community-based profiles. Regular Bonfire allows federation with the world. add-profile-manade-screenshot-web To create or manage profiles: Go to your account settings and select Profiles. Click Create Profile to add a new one. Set a username, display name, and bio Choose privacy settings for each profile: People need to make a request before they can follow me: When enabled, others must send a follow request that you approve before they can follow this profile. Make my profile publicly discoverable: When enabled, your profile can be found in Bonfire directories, the fediverse, and search engines. Make my content searchable: When enabled, your posts and content can be indexed and found via search in Bonfire, the fediverse, and search engines. Switch between profiles as needed when posting or interacting. Note: By default, your different profiles are not publicly linked. Each one appears as a separate identity. Again, this is unique to Bonfire. And once again, Manade communities are not federated by default. Your admin will have to enable federation if the community agrees to it. Completing Your Profile Add a display name and avatar (to each profile) to help others recognize you. Write a short bio (for each profile) to introduce yourself. Choose the right settings for each profile. search-bonfire-screenshot Finding People & Following Them Bonfire makes it easy to connect with others across your instance and the wider Fediverse. How to Find People Search: Use the search bar to find people by username, display name, or full Fediverse address (e.g. @alex\@bonfire.community.social). circles-manade-screenshot-web Shared Circles: Discover people through shared circles and groups. User Directory: Most Bonfire instances have a user directory you can browse. Look for the "Users" link in the sidebar or navigation menu. users-bonfire-screenshot-web Instance Directory: Some open instances list other known federated communities. Find the "Instances" link in the sidebar for discovery. For more on Boundaries, Circles, Groups, Feeds, etc. see Bonfire, a Social Platform Apart. follow-manade-screenshot-web Following Profiles Click the Follow button on any profile to receive their public posts and updates in your feed. If the profile requires approval, your follow request will be sent for review. You can follow profiles from your own instance. You can also follow groups and circles. If you find a profile on another Fediverse instance, you can follow them by copying their full address and searching for it on your own instance. Again this will work if your admin enables it. following-manade-screenshot-web Managing Your Connections View and manage your followed profiles in your account’s "Following" section. Organize connections using circles and use custom feeds to filter their posts and activities. Tips You can follow multiple profiles from the same person (if they use Bonfire’s multi-profile feature). Use circles to group people by interest, relationship, or context. Explore directories and circles to find new people and communities. You can also follow any default feeds of your instance. That's it Hopefully, this short (for us) article gives you what you need to get started in your Bonfire / Manade community. Throw off the chains of techno feudalism with this democratic techno anarchism-friendly tech. For more information on using Bonfire, visit the docs. 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You can also follow groups and circles."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"If you find a profile on another Fediverse instance, you can follow them by copying their full address and searching for it on your own instance. Again this will work if your admin enables it."}},{"block":{"alt":"following-manade-screenshot-web","$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.image","image":{"ref":{"$link":"bafkreieuqqyoalnyoa7wyiamw2mwi3vwdjw6xshrb2odjk5gest5pave5i"},"size":110374,"$type":"blob","mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"aspectRatio":{"width":1260,"height":685}}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Managing Your Connections"}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"View and manage your followed profiles in your account’s \"Following\" section."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Organize connections using circles and use custom feeds to filter their posts and activities."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Tips"}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"You can follow multiple profiles from the same person (if they use Bonfire’s multi-profile feature)."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Use circles to group people by interest, relationship, or context."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Explore directories and circles to find new people and communities."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"You can also follow any default feeds of your instance."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"That's it"}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Hopefully, this short (for us) article gives you what you need to get started in your Bonfire / Manade community. Throw off the chains of techno feudalism with this democratic techno anarchism-friendly tech."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":53,"byteStart":39},"features":[{"uri":"https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/getting-started.html","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"For more information on using Bonfire, visit the docs."}},{"block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Thanks for reading and build something for a / your community! Hopefully an Bonfire / Manade instance."}}]}]},"updatedAt":"2026-06-23T11:02:59.820Z","coverImage":{"ref":{"$link":"bafkreigcvqeerhxuqxru4q7gdqg7bdlbfsxvagxrv7qspphuap4cio67gy"},"size":109958,"$type":"blob","mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"description":"How to set up your account in a private community (Bonfire) that isn't enshittified with corporate grift.","publishedAt":"2026-06-23T10:15:24.677Z","textContent":"$4a","theme":"$undefined","preferences":"$undefined"},"uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.document/3mox66svkbkqp","sort_date":"2026-06-23T10:15:24.677+00:00"}}] 4b:T3072,This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can scroll to your favorite section. FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em. There won’t be TPFs the next two weeks as we’re (mostly) done with the breakneck pace of settling into retirement in France. To celebrate we’re taking a beach vacation. Although we will work on Manade’s default implementation / configuration and probably an unrelated documentary script. But, you can keep up to date by following our Fediverse account. Featured Item(s) Hamish Campbell writes: The problem is not that institutions are involved (in the Fediverse), the problem is when institutional logic starts drowning out community logic to create a growing signal-to-noise problem. The signal is people building infrastructure, running servers, writing code, creating culture, organising communities, and solving problems together. The noise is the endless churn of reports, branding exercises, stakeholder management, conference panels, and “engagement” processes that consume energy without producing any substance. The useful framing here might be: Fluffy: welcoming people in, building bridges, creating shared spaces, encouraging participation. Spiky: defending native values, challenging bad practice, calling out capture, and maintaining boundaries. The Fediverse needs both, too much fluffy and everything gets absorbed into mainstreaming culture until the original values disappear. Too much spiky and you end up isolated, talking only to people who already agree with you. The challenge is maintaining a productive tension between the two. The real debate isn’t institutions versus communities. It’s whether institutions can learn to work within open web culture rather than replacing it with the same management culture that has already failed across much of the closed web. The signal is still there, the question is whether we can keep hearing it through the noise. The Fediverse’s growing signal-to-noise problem – and who’s causing it So, maximum building and minimum talking. He follows up on a related note: Nicenasty, the hidden power of soft obstruction And how to combat the obstruction: Working Groups, Horizontal Organising, and Getting Things Done CMSs Buttondown has some great advice: Being weirder than AI is practicable and valuable Mark Pitblado looks at: Renting vs Owning in the digital era Sander van Dragt announces: Lamb 0.9.0 Nice. Skypress has: Say hello to SkyPress (it’s an alpha, and it’s a playground) Interesting with lots of potential. Ghost Ghost introduces: Dynamic filters for members This may be a useful tool for larger Ghost publishers: Vellumine Back to top 👆🏼 Tools Open Source Initiative says: OSI welcomes the European Union’s “Tech Sovereignty” package The Linux Foundation Europe shares: Linux Foundation Europe’s response to the European Commission’s public consultation: European Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy FediVariety reviews the: Status of the current Digital Sphere? Internet Archive Europe says: Maps Are Infrastructure Too Signal has: Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK’s latest threat to privacy Why is every large party in England working to turn the country fascist before the fascists even seize power? Heather Burns offers the term: Grassware Or as some have suggested SnitchTech and StasAI. Chat / Team Chat Delta Chat announces: 2.51+ releases are rolling into app stores Wired reports: Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps Signal shares a: Signal Security & Privacy Guide Browsers Christian Visintin says / asks: Ladybird won’t accept public PRs anymore – what does it mean? Tuan-Anh Tran has: Some concerns about Ladybird’s bylaws I had forgot about Ladybird but still hope it succeeds. Search Later On explores: Google’s AI and its effects Cloud NextCloud has: Nextcloud Summit 2026: Digital sovereignty comes of age Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future As a NextCloud customer I am not sure why you would use Euro-Office (as it’s still tied to Microsofts’ formatting) over fellow offering Collabora (unless you’re boycotting England too). Collabra is based on LibreOffice BTW. IMHO, if you are a small org or solo user, using LibreOffice independent of NextCloud would be the best option. And all of them beat the shit out of Office 360. It’s FOSS reports: Collabora’s CODE 26.04 Release Might Be Its Biggest One Yet Writing LibreOffice has: An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2026 Creative Kdenlive announces: The second maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out 9to5Linux reports: HandBrake 1.11.2 Video Transcoder Adds WebM MIME Type Support on Linux Linux / Open Android F-Droid shares: This Week in F-Droid Liliputing reports: [Juno Tab 4 is a Linux tablet with Intel Core i3-N300 and Core Ultra 5 115U options]() As a tablet fan, this is encouraging to see. Hosting / Serving Nycki announces: Docket This week’s featured OMN tool Drupito For individuals Drupito is a hands off, coding-optional, maintenance-free version of Drupal CMS built with Drupal under the hood. For small orgs it’s even more. Drupito Back to top 👆🏼 Programming Bailey’s Retrospective explores: Missed Fundamentals In Web Development Git Forgejo shares its: Forgejo monthly report – May 2026 404 Media reports: Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users You deserve what you get if you’re amoral and dumb enough to use AI. HTML Moh Kohn shows: How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight This x 10,000. Adam Silver explains: Why the accept attribute degrades file upload UX HTMX Sachin Sharma examines: Architecting Zero-Dependency HTMX Applications in 2026: Bypassing NPM and Bundlers Completely HTMX features: Code is Cheap(er) The Subtractive, Constraining Engineer is a good approach if you are forced to use horseshit AI. CSS Always Twisted demonstrates: Un-Sass’ing my CSS Alex looks at: Rendering a chat thread in CSS and JavaScript Webkit is: Introducing the Field Guide to Grid Lanes JavaScript NoLoJS has a resource to: Reduce the JS Workload with No- or Lo-JS options Use it. AI Dries Buyaert has: Friction, abstraction, and verification I find it amusing that the papa of Drupal (who I have met, shared a beer with, and respect) is writing about ease of use. Hence a few days later: Do AI coding agents recommend Drupal? I ran across this project this week: Apertus is Switzerland’s first large-scale, fully open, multilingual language model. It will be interesting to see where this leads. Although I assume it still has the same environmental concerns. But, maybe Switzerland has shit tons of windmills and hydroelectric power. Mashable reports: The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing Bon. Not to be outdone by their cunterparts at Google, 404 Media reports: ‘Sloppenheimer:’ Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack Somehow the lickspittles still manage to work for the techno feudalist overlords. Other OpenProject announces: We have released OpenProject 17.4.1 and 17.3.3 XWIKI shares its: April and May Pro Apps updates This week’s featured programming tool Codeberg A community-led effort that provides Git hosting for free / open-source projects. [Codeberg]() And if you don’t qualify for use, please self-host Forgejo. And fuck ShitHub! Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub Kopper shares: An outpost vision Interesting. Matt explains: Fixing my ActivityPub and WebMention comments to make them play nicely. Holos’ Tom enables: Following conversations across the Fediverse Great stuff. Mastodon shares: Mastodon 4.6 for Developers This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool Emissary Emissary is a Fedi server built for end users, developers, and admins. Emissary Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse Pure Web Hosting makes: A case for organisations running their own ActivityPub servers Jose Murilo has: Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: Unwelcome Guests on Social Media, Homeowners on the Social Web Bom, bom, bom. HootOS opines: The Bubble Wrap Conundrum; or, The Balkanization Of Social Media Didn’t Solve Social Media IT Notes notes: Aggressive caching for a Mastodon reverse proxy: what to cache, what to never cache, and why content negotiation will eventually betray you ActivityPub’s papa, Evan Prodromou celebrates: Mastodon now has a filtering option for notifications from bots Elk announces: Finally, Elk v1.0.0 is out! I ran across Harmony this week: Harmony This looks promising for larger existing communities. I like that it’s a progressive web app. Internet Exchange Due Process: Why Fair Moderation Builds Healthier Communities Betula is: Introducing Betula v1.8.0 Holos announces: Having lists that mix accounts and hashtags is now possible in Holos Social 1.9.0 Owncast belatedly posts its: Owncast Newsletter May/June 2026 Bonfire FediForum shares: Open Social Awards 2026 Bonfire was the only ActivityPub-focused winner. And that’s because it’s the most innovative thing in the Fediverse. Back to top 👆🏼 More LoRes Mesh explores: Your web apps, talking peer-to-peer Very interesting. Matrix Element announces: Element (and Matrix by extension, the open standard it’s built on) has been recognised as a true digital public good by dpgalliance RSS Seventeen year-old Frost shares: RSS And The Difference Between Displaying A Standard And Living Inside One Great stuff, Frost. Giulio Magnifico (magnificent name) explores: Feed RSS dei podcast Rai v2 XMPP XMPP has: The XMPP Newsletter May 2026 Mathieui announces: slixmpp v1.16.0 Other Federated Social Media Mirthe Valentijn covers: AT Proto This one is worth using your browser’s translate function. Unless you can read Dutch. EuroSky Social announces: We’re now mirroring the did:plc directory – where identities live – on European infrastructure: plc.eurosky.network Today we’re switching on a high-reliability relay: relay1.eurosky.network eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new ATProto microblogging app with editing capabilities Tres bon. Bluesky announces: Group chats are rolling out in v1.124 update Sounds like a clusterfuck. Along with group chats, we’ve rolled out a new way to share your profile and invite friends to find you on Bluesky Uhm, no. Ege examines: Integrating standard.site with My Hugo Blog Daniel’s Leaflets continues a series: Permissioned Data Diary 6: Boring Auth Mozzius show us: How standard.horse works eMail / Newsletters Andre Chaperon looks at: The Boring Miracle of Email Which after the printing press and the typewriter is the greatest technology of all time. CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at @thefulcrum.eurosky.social on ATProto for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! We’re building Manade. 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It’s ten years later than it should have occured, but it’s a start. And starts can be directed. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can just scroll down to your favorite section. FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em. Featured Item(s) Violet Pixel writes: Yes, the web has morphed our perception, but I disagree that, “everything needs to generate money because everything is considered valuable.” The web hasn’t made everyone consider everything valuable, it’s pushed people to monetize. The pressure isn’t to create valuable content, it’s to create content that sells. Many things that sell have little or no value. Many things with immense value are things you can’t put a price tag on (although some people will try). Worth on the Web So, join the Open Media Network and do your thing whatever it is. You can be sure it has worth! Lingua Celta writes: This essay is explicitly addressed to my fellow technologists: software developers, hobby coders, digital humanists, computer science theorists, and all the other members of this big family of people who do tech. I want to talk about our community, and why it’s important. I want to suggest that using LLMs to generate content to be included in technology projects, whether that’s code or text or images, or code reviews or proofreading, harms our shared community. The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community This is similar to what we preach weekly. Speaking of communities, Ben Werdmuller writes: The biggest exceptions (to journalistic decline) are local news startups, which are building trust, evolving business models for journalism, and building far more representative editorial rosters. Most of all, they’re engaging with their local communities. Their constituents know them; that representation and those relationships are how trust is built. And their readers are more loyal because they know they can’t get the context and information they need from anywhere else. The community-first software era Fantastic stuff from Ben as always. CMSs Amber Weinberg says: WordPress 7.0 is out, Let’s shut off that pesky AI! Done. If WordPress had not gone all in on the Fediverse, I literally would have nothing to do with it anymore. Dries Buyaert explores: Contentful and the limits of “Buy European” AKA use open source or eventually get fucked by corporate software. And Germany should block the sale BTW. Mastro lists: Four ways to do component-scoped CSS (in Mastro) without a complex build step This looks to be a fairly KISS option for a CMS. Simon Repp shares a: Quick recap of the last week or so in Faircamp 2.0 development Leaflet Leaflet announces: New, for folks doing newsletters on Leaflet This may only be for Pro plans. Ghost Ghost is: Expanding your social presence We migrated our Symfony Station Mastodon account into the one here with the new capabilities. So, welcome Symfonistas, Drupalers, and PHP peeps. Synaps Media announces: A New Chapter for Synaps Media And Magic Pages announces: llms.txt for AI Search in the Customer Portal IMHO Jannis is slightly amoral (in a nice way) on this topic, so we recommend enabling blocking and disabling crawling. That way you may have a chance to be reincarnated as something other than a cockroach. And BTW we are a client of his company and will remain so (for now) because at least you get to choose (kudos). And sadly, that beats most alternatives. They also explain: Ghost, Ghost(Pro), Magic Pages − what’s the difference? Build Awesome Blades examines: Minimal 11ty starters Micro.blog Micro.blog has: Standard.site in Micro.blog More notes on Standard.site Back to top 👆🏼 Tools A Poor Player looks at: Digital Feudalism and the Rise of Digital Serfs If you don’t want to be a serf, explore and live the Techno Anarchist Manifesto. Mullvad asks a discouraging question: Age verification for social media – the beginning of the end for a free internet? The Internet Exchange explains: Stifling Speech Through DNS Infrastructure In big news, the European Commission has: Commission boosts open and interoperable digital ecosystems for public administrations Great. Now back it up with adequate funding and large-scale purchasing. The European Digital Rights Initiative responds: Europe’s digital sovereignty starts with open source Free Software Foundation Europe has: EU Tech Sovereignty: A milestone for Public Code? Now implementation is key Restack: a new European consortium for a digital Europe Dries Buyaert shares: Europe turns to Open Source for independence Hamish Campbell has his usual spot on take: The EU tech sovereignty plan And finally Jos Poortvliet gets into the ambivalent fine details: [The Tech Sovereignty Package encourages and disappoints]() If you are an European Union citizen, start pressing your government to walk, not just talk. Chat / Team Chat Signal announces: Signal improves notification reliability for devices without Google Play services Signal will soon automatically delete call events in disappearing chats Tuta lists: Best private Discord alternatives in 2026 Movim announces: The last few days have been wild! Browsers Servo has: April in Servo: new Android UI, focus, forms, security fixes, and more! Waterfox announces: 6.6.14 – Web compatibility and ad blocker refinements Search Alternative To reports: DuckDuckGo’s No AI search tool reports huge traffic growth as Google pushes AI results Erin shares: Tip: Use DuckDuckGo NoAI as your browsers default search engine Or better yet pay for Uruky. Or use Mojeek or SearXNG. Euractiv reports: European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative Super. Cloud Jorijn Schrijvershof writes: Nextcloud is not a Google Workspace clone. That is the point and the trap. This article is aimed at team users. And I am not sure why it’s a trap. Google is the prison. Writing LibreOffice shares: The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 26.2.4 A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty Tuta announces: Tuta joins Euro-Office – one week before launch Linux / Open Android Heisse Online reports: Linux App Summit 2026: Meeting of the Linux Desktop Avant-garde I wasn’t familiar with Bluefin, but anything that makes Linux easier to install and use is great. Gaming On Linux reports: Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI Fantastic. KDE and Plasma Design asks: What Even is Ocean??? Postmarket OS announces: pmbootstrap: strict builds are now the default MNT has an update: MNT May 2026 Update Hosting / Serving Elena Rossini continues a series: A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance Jeremy Cherfas explores: A Server for a Purpose Zils Norvilis examines: The Developer’s Way to Track Traffic: Self-Hosting Ackee or Plausible Especially useful if you have a Rails background. Siddhant Goel demonstrates: Self-hosting static sites on a Caddy-powered VPS This week’s featured OMN tool Decidim Decidim is a free/libre platform for opensource citizen participation. Decidim Back to top 👆🏼 Programming Kevin Wagner asks: Extended Note: Is AI causing a repeat of Frontend’s Lost Decade? React was the worst thing to ever happen to web development. Until, AI came along. Both are anti-labor, de-skilling, fascist artifacts. On a similar note, DutchCelt opines: Front-end doesn’t exist Business Insider reports: Zig president says AI coding contributions are ‘invariably garbage,’ so he banned them Daring Fireball asks: What Is a Dickover? Tim Bray looks at: XML and JSON in 2026 Git Henderson Reed Hummel demonstrates: Blocking “recommended for you” items on the GitHub feed Better yet, don’t use ShitHub period. HTML Olivier Forget shares: DOM Patching from a BackflipHTML Template CSS Frontend Masters has: The Fundamentals and Dev Experience of CSS @function In-N-Out Animations: Dialogs (Part 1/3) A neat but unnecessary effect. Sam Hermes explains: Why I don’t like utility class CSS frameworks Failwind is the third worst thing to ever happen to web development. That HTML Blog explores: Designing an Autogenerated Live Color Scale in CSS JavaScript Zil Norvilis says: Stop Using JS for Everything: Harnessing the Power of Pure CSS in 2026 Absolutely. AI Jorijn Schrijvershof has: Claude Mythos: what Anthropic’s cyber model means, and how to stay ahead of it KISS is also a good security practice. Emerald Pages reports: The Great AI Boomerang: Google, Meta, Klarna & More Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Fired Let’s see if the c^nts learn any lessons. 404 Media reports: But, probably not. Satya Nadella ‘Not Sure’ Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI, Is Looking for Guy Who Did This Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks This week’s featured programming tool HTML Structure your site with simple but essential HTML. HTML Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub Jeremy Herve says: The web was always social IT Notes shares a note: FediMeteo, timezones, and the art of not breaking what already works This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Rocks This site is maintained by the current steward of the ActivityPub stack of standards. ActivityPub Rocks Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse The Social Web Foundation has: European Social Sovereignty Mastodon shares: Europe’s New Tech Strategy Puts Open Source Front and Centre Following up a post feature here last week, Ecologia Digital asks: Fediverso ou Web Social? VM Crawl announces: The dashboard now shows a heat map of all detected ActivityPub platforms in comparison to Mastodon The largest number of Fediverse instances are Ghost websites, then Mastodon, and soon to surpass it WordPress sites. This is good. Alexia’s Space examines Fediverse: Moderation EnbySpacePerson looks at: Fediverse migration Holos announces: HolosSocial 1.8.1 is available Elk announces: Finally, Elk v1.0.0 is out! And FediLab announces: Fedilab 3.41.0 is available. Paths and Patches reports on: Connected community spaces Connected Places has: FR 165 – Fediverse News May 2026 A New Social announces new: Launches: Credible Exit, Bridged User Notifications, & Fediverse Re-Bridge Bonfire Our Manade project is rolling along. So, (as hinted at last week) we have set up an announcement account on the Fediverse via a self-hosted Starling server. It’s PHP-based, which is in my wheelhouse. Follow it at @gardian@social.manade.org. You can learn more about the project at https://site.manade.org. Elixir announces: Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language Bonfire is written in Elixir which is not in my wheelhouse or even in the neighborhood. LAUTI announces: The next step in our ActivityPub implementation is ready Back to top 👆🏼 More European.social announces: The European Social Stack Technology Adventures announces: SovereignS3nc: Building a Decentralized Network Without a Backend Very interesting KISS experiment. Matrix Sky Schubert shows us: How to rename yourself on Matrix Definitely a pain point in open social. Web Mentions Dale Mellor extends an: Invitation to Join a Posse of Webmention Scratch-Builders to Work Towards Interoperability Other Federated Social Media Standard.Horse is: Your printing press for standard.site Mat Marquis is: Implementing Standard.Site Great article. And Rachel Andrew is: Joining the atmosphere pckt answers: Atmosphere 101: Do I need to make an account? Hannah explains: Putting my Neocities blog on ATProto Daniel’s Leaflets explores: Modeling communities on permissioned data VMX examines: Floats on ATProto Democracy Tech Fedivariety looks at: Safeguarding Democratic Debate Devin Thakker explains: What Makes Civic Data So Hard to Structure Tor is: Supporting those who speak out with Richochet Refresh eMail / Newsletters Buttondown announces: (Private) Notes on your team members CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at thefulcrum.eurosky.social for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! We’re building Manade. 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Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. The big news this week was obviously The European Commission's European Technological Sovereignty Package....","publishedAt":"2026-06-06T07:39:48.000Z","textContent":"$4c","theme":"$undefined","preferences":"$undefined"},"uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.document/3mo3zta4xi45x","sort_date":"2026-06-06T07:39:48+00:00"}}] 4d:T2572,This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Misaligned Markets writes: Governance determines the evolution of an innovation, giving society power over a technology’s ultimate form. To steer the future we must imagine a different past Defend Democracy writes: Europe is spending €300 billion to free itself from undemocratic control of its digital infrastructure. It has not yet considered what happens when the authoritarian is European. Europe’s big tech bet is only as safe as its democracy Yep. Code and Civilisation writes: Gradually, attention shifted away from the sheer accumulation of things toward the structures that made cooperation possible: the systems by which knowledge was recorded, exchanged, tested, and carried forward. Within these largely unseen arrangements, civilisation found new means of continuity. Civilisation XIV: The Invisible Commons Very informative. CMSs The Repository reports: Patchstack CEO Warns WordPress 7.0 Could Trigger “Absolute Rush” To Steal AI API Keys Manual do Usuário shows us: How to disable WordPress 7.0’s new AI features Or you could just not be a c^nt and don’t use non-local AI. Or be a saint and don’t use AI period. PureBlog explores its: Post Scheduling Bear Wonders of Web Weaving has a nice interview: Wonders of Web Weaving Number 3 Bear = Nice and KISS. Robert Birming introduces a: Bear gallery upload plugin Ghost Ghost announces: Comment threads, votes and pins Tech Times reports: Ghost CMS SQL Injection Hits 700 Sites: Harvard, DuckDuckGo Serve Fake Cloudflare Malware This is why I don’t self-host non-static sites. Build Awesome Ste Grainer shares: Friday Fave: Build Awesome aka 11ty Mathia Wright shares: How I Made This Website Micro.blog The Art Of Not Asking Why says: It’s official: I prefer Inkwell over Elfeed Micro.Blog announces: We’ve restarted the iOS beta for Strata Write.as / WriteFreely Back to top 👆🏼 Tools Joost de Valk opines: Open Source First is right, but not enough. Disconnect opines: Google is its own worst enemy When this mountain range of shit collapses we need to have built a real and climbable mountain above the sea of decay. Kevin Boone examines: Maps after Google I use Organic Maps and it’s good enough. Small Web 17 year-old Frost says: The Small Web Still Depends on Corporate Infrastructure Nice piece. Chat Signal has: Signal Labs: are “Starred messages” and these six other features coming to Signal? Browsers Slashdot shares: Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit Cloud Jorijn Schrijvershof has: Why I left Google Workspace for self-hosted Nextcloud The Open Cloud Alliantie is real. Seven Dutch providers just made sovereignty a procurement conversation. The Free Knowledge Institute shares: Cooperative Clouds in Practice – KolliCloud Shows How Affordable, Sovereign Infrastructure Is Already Here Writing LibreOffice has: New Web and Mobile Strategy for LibreOffice ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed Nextcloud announces: Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9 Linux/Open Android 9to5Linux reports: Linux Mint 23 Getting New Cinnamon Screenshots Tool, Network Improvements Phosh announces: Phosh 0.55.0 Luigi311 reviews: Furilabs FLX1s Clubic has an interview: “Apple et Google sont prisonniers de leur propre écosystème, nous pouvons innover librement” – Interview Jolla F-Droid has: This Week in F-Droid Building trust through software rather than giving it Gael Duval promotes: Joining the Wave: Murena & /e/OS 2026 Roadmap This week’s featured OMN tool HubZilla The powerful open source privacy-respecting all-in-one home base for collaboration and social interactions. Hubzilla Back to top 👆🏼 Programming Yancey Strickler looks at: Seven years in the forest This in an in-browser light version of efforts like Newsmast Community, Acorn, and Bonfire / Manade. Prasham H Trivedi notes: Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability Interoperable Europe has: Workshop report from Université Grenoble Alpes maps the missions, structures and services proper academic OSPOs should provide Grenoble is a fantastic city BTW. Curl’s main man looks at: The pressure Daniel Beck asks: Open source docs: where does the money come from? Joan Westenberg proposes: The Costco Theory of the Internet If you are a solopreneur or small business owner, you should read this. Matthias Schaub shares: I rebuilt my own web image feed and gallery A great, little, fairly KISS project. Git Bruno Bernardino is: Migrating from GitHub Actions to SourceHut Builds Markdown HTML Frontend Masters explores: Managing Anchor Associations With Data Attributes and Advanced attr() CSS CSS Tricks examines: The State of CSS Centering in 2026. Brian Kardell has: Get Clamped: Unwinding Some Difficult CSS History Donnie D’Amato looks at the color: Eigengrau Very interesting and the advice not to use pure black is solid. AI The Guardian reports: Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI Where’s Your Ed? finishes a series: Revenge of The Business Idiot Ed may be my brother from another mother. The University of Oxford explores: Software Freedom as Civic Care Fantastic, though long. Even my our standards. Other This week’s featured programming tool Markdown Write for your website. Markdown Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub IT Notes notes: FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads Jeremy Herve examines: Radical Speed Month, and a new Reader Pat is: Thinking more about ActivityPub Gyptazy announces: Starling – A Lightweight ActivityPub Server for the Fediverse I will definitely check this out. Maybe for the Manade website. This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool Validate ActivityStreams Event Verify your ActivityStreams Event object for FEP-8a8e compliance Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse Connected Places has: FR 164 – The Pope on Defederation If you’re interested in what the Pope is building upon, check this section of the TAM out. For Better looks at: The ‘normal’ response to the Social Web The better name might be Ad-Free Social Media. I ran across PeerSeek this week: Search PeerTube videos If you watch videos (which I don’t), give this a peak. Elefeed announces: No app store needed Holos Social notes: HolosSocial isn’t bringing something new to the Fediverse Multi-device support is progressing well for Holos Social. There are three notes in this thread. Zeitfresser says: Stop Posting to Platforms — Turn Your (WordPress) Website into a Fediverse Node A solid implementation. It’s only drawback is its slightly wonky with some third party clients. Still, it’s probably the best integration with a CMS. Euractiv looks: Inside the Commission’s favorite European social network Bonfire A quick aside – hosting, provisioning, implementation, and opinionated customization of Manade is moving along nicely. Back to top 👆🏼 More Daniel Prindii aks: What are third spaces and what makes them work Just a Simple App announces: Flat is now available This is similar to Flipboard’s Surf app. Kevin Boone announces: keplerd: a new Java-based server for the Gemini protocol and others Matrix Alexia apologizes: My Matrix post? it f^?§%ng sucked. Element reports: Sweden goes live with Matrix-based federation! RSS CybersecKyle shares: Improving My RSS Feed and Making It More Human Readable XMPP Mathieui announces: Poezio 0.18 Other Federated Social Media TechCrunch reports: As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control pckt reports: Standard.site link cards are coming to Bluesky Elena Rossini has an expose: The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches, and Conflicting Signals Democracy Tech Code and Civilisation explores: Change Management as Civic Infrastructure eMail / Newsletters Rewiring examines: Moving from Fastmail to a generic host + own domain CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at thefulcrum.eurosky.social for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Sites/Blogs/CMSs Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools OMN Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Bonfire writes: Since the 1.0 release of Bonfire Social, we’ve been heads-down listening to our our pilot communities, beta testers, and co-design partners. Version 1.0.3 is the result: a release focused on stability and polish, which fixes a wide range of bugs and brings meaningful usability improvements, especially around feeds, boundaries, and more advanced features. It also ships a set of new capabilities born from our ongoing collaboration with Jacobin DE. Bonfire 1.0.3: Stability, Clarity, and Federated Publishing Awesome. The “calm empowerment” for boundaries and posts sounds great. And the same philosophy will be integrated into groups. Loading the dashboard immediately is another good choice. I am especially psyched about the community publishing with Ghost integration. This is the same thinking behind their LAUTI integration for events. Hamish Campbell writes: The KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple – ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy, or a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just build working commons. This matters because much of the EU “digital sovereignty” conversation is simply more churn inside the same neoliberal, mainstreaming logic that created the problem in the first place. Compost “digital sovereignty”, build working commons This is one of the major reasons we’re building Manade on top of Bonfire. Speaking of, the co-op handling the setup and hosting for us says: Wow @Bonfire is so cool! I’m glad they’re enthusiastic. And I am happy to be their initial test subject. 😉 And I’m also fortunate I can afford the higher costs of early adopters. Consider it a service to the community or penance for my bad karma. And finally, we published another Bonfire article this week, so check out the Bonfire section at the bottom of this post. CMSs Simon Repp announces: Random Faircamp 2.0 development updates Dries Buyaert explains: Why Drupal CMS matters It does make Drupal easier, but still not easy. No KISS promotion here. Ghost Ghost announces: Working on supporting account aliases in Ghost This is now live Fan-fucking-tastic! Working on adding support in Ghost for custom web domain for your handle Hopefully, all of these aren’t just for the pro plan. Spectral Web Services explores: Sitewide socials, theme editing, switching platforms again, and more Back to top 👆🏼 Tools This one is a little philosophical and slightly trippy, but The Lazurus Corporation shares: Against the tyranny of the Apollonian We’re definitely Dionysian. 🍸 🏴‍☠️ Smashing Frames ruminates: [On Google declaring war on the Web](https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/) Fuck Google and obviously don’t use their shit. The Register reports: LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business Chat Zulip shares: Announcing the Zulip Foundation Browsers 9to5Linux reports: Firefox 151 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New Cybernews reports: Brussels’ DMA regulation handed Firefox millions of new users Great. Let’s hope the trend continues and they then move on to Firefox forks. See just below. Tuta examines the: Best Private Browsers 2026 | Zero Trackers Hopefully, you’re using one of these right now. Cloud Taylor and Francis has: Cloud drift: how hyperscaler cloud computing shapes internet governance Writing LibreOffice has: There is no digital sovereignty without ODF How your donations help the LibreOffice project and community Free Knowledge Institute looks at: Cooperative Clouds: How LaSuite.coop Is Building a New Model for Digital Sovereignty Creative GIMP announces: GIMP on MS Store now requires Windows Build 20348 Linux/Open Android OSTechnix reports: Linux Kernel 7.1 RC4 Released: Torvalds Slams “Pointless” AI Bug Reports There is an easy fix for this problem (no AI). FYI, this is a typically poorly designed news site. Larvitz Blog mdo on FreeBSD 15: Base-System Privilege Delegation with mac_do Gridranger shows us: How to select a mobile OS Solid article. And interesting site design. PostmarketOS has: losetup upgrade results in boot failure My Linux peeps, we have to all get on the same page (at least for mobile OS) if we’re going to have a chance to deep six Apple and Google. KISS as possible, please. This week’s featured OMN tool Framatoolbox The free and ethical toolkit. Framatoolbox Back to top 👆🏼 Programming Javier Tia looks at: Two FOSDEM talks on the CRA, from opposite sides of the table Terence Eden notes: GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source Cyber Security News reports: Google reCAPTCHA Update Blocks Privacy-Focused Android Users From Sites Mon amis, please don’t use anything from Google on your sites. Explore hCaptcha, ALTCHA, or Friendly Captcha. Nick Stambaugh on: Selling an HTML file for a few grand KISS = cash. 😉 Git Bleeping Computer reports: GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension Why would you sue anything from Microslop? At least check out VS Codium, Forgejo, and Codeberg. Alex Hyett asks: GitHub is dead, What’s next? Jorijn Schrijvershof explains: Why I’m leaving GitHub for Forgejo Michael Thomas demonstrates: Auto-Deploying a static site from Forgejo to CloudFlare Pages If your site is open source or personal, please use Codeberg not Cloudflare. Markdown Files MD is: A free, quiet space for thinking. Private, no data is sent to server. HTML My favorite blog to view (eyes wise), Evil Martians 600+ million people write right-to-left: 2 fixes your app needs Twig Symfony announces: Twig 3.25.0 released CSS Julia Evans is leaving Failwind: Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS Fantastic. JavaScript A Bi Disaster explores: The tyranny of single page apps AI Where’s your Ed at? marvels: What If…We’re In An AI Bubble? (Part 1) Get it? And by the way, we fucking are. Dhruv Ahuja says: I owe my career to open-source communities. I’m not sure newcomers can say the same Same here and owed in my case. This week’s featured programming tool Zeroform Zeroform is a static and dynamic online form generator. Zeroform A nice example of someone building something for the community. Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub Huey Lee explores: Configuring SSO on Mastodon Evan Prodromou explains: For the #ActivityPubAPI, we need a profile of OAuth to use for accessing the actor’s data Hollo announces: Hollo 0.9.0 is out This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool Fediverse Developer Matrix Network A place for people developing software for the Fediverse, using protocols such as ActivityPub and ActivityStreams, HTTP signatures and Webfinger. Fediverse Developer Network Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse Fedivariety reviews: FediVariety’s unconference: Nodes On A Web Sefan Bohacek shows us how to: Make your website or blog Fediverse-ready FediLab Apps is: Exploring a desktop version of Holos, and early tests are promising Edmond recommends: Blocking the “meta-externalagent” user agent from your web server Technically Good continues a series: Alternatives Pt. II – Social Networking A good one to share with a newbie or a friend you want to free from Techno Feudalism. PeerTube announces: We’ve just published #PeerTube 8.1.6 Friendica announces: Friendica 2026.05 released Bonfire We published: Bonfire: A Social Platform Apart And did you see our featured articles? Back to top 👆🏼 More Connected Places has: FR 163 – Decrypting Matrix It’s good to see they will start covering Matrix more. Fabio Manganiello announces: chat-translate is a new project RSS Rob Hoeijmakers says: RSS is not dead. It just changed audience. But, we can still use it as intended. Entropic Thoughts looks at: Article previews in RSS Half An Hour explores: Adding DID to RSS and Atom Feeds DanQ is: Reducing Phantom Obligation in FreshRSS And Terry Godier examines: Phantom Obligation Other Federated Social Media The Atmosphere Community shares: ATStore, the Atmosphere Directory, and Community Involvement The development apps would be relevant here. Marque and Syntax Club seem useful. And Tangled of course. Second Brain updates: AT Protocol Resources and Tools Boltless shares: Tangled: Knot-stored COB proposal ActivityPub for WordPress announces: ATmosphere 1.0.0 — Liftoff Yes, it’s in the correct section. 😉 Frank Hecker moves from: From Bluesky to Blacksky Great. Democracy Tech Unredacted shares its mission: Keeping the doors open Commons Network reviews the: New European partnership against dependence on Big Tech CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. 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Manade is an example / starter private instance of Bonfire that {preferably} local communities can {preferably} use democratically to support themselves against techno feudalism and surveillance capitalism without government interference). The Difference As mentioned in a previous article: “Bonfire stands apart from other Fediverse platforms due to its Circles, Boundaries, and upcoming Groups. Designed for extensibility and experimentation, it focuses on local-first, community-driven governance. It’s also more privacy/security-focused than its peers.” You can get into the nitty gritty of any of the topics below by visiting the Bonfire documentation. I am basically simplifying and paraphrasing them in this article in any case. Like most of us, I am fairly new to Bonfire myself. Profiles You can have four profiles per Bonfire account which is unique. They show up as separate identities – personal, work, or project / community ones for example. Consequently, you have both one account and individual profile settings. As you would expect, account settings are the default preferences for all your profiles (language, notification preferences, privacy defaults, etc.). Profile settings override those defaults for your individual profiles. This gives you the freedom to customize how each profile appears and behaves, independently from your main account. Create or manage profiles by: going to your account settings and selecting Profiles. clicking Create Profile. setting a username and display name adding a bio and adding an avatar That’s it. Then choose privacy setting options for each profile: “People need to make a request before they can follow me.” When enabled, others must send a follow request that you approve before they can follow your profile. “Make my profile publicly discoverable.” When you choose this your profile can be found in Bonfire directories, the Fediverse, and search engines. (This won’t be enabled in Manade as it’s a private community by default). “Make my content searchable.” This choice allows your posts and content to be indexed and found via search in Bonfire, the Fediverse, and search engines. (Again this will be disabled by default in Manade). Your admin will be able to set up whatever your community desires. Your Bonfire address is in the format: @username@yourinstance.etc Where username is the name you choose when signing up. And yourinstance.etc is the domain of the Bonfire instance you joined. You will also have a link to an individual profile, such as https://yourinstance.etc/@you (personal) or https://yourinstance.etc/@your_project. (project profile). Also note that by default, your different profiles are not publicly linked—each appears as a separate identity. You can switch between profiles as needed when posting or interacting. Finally, remember to select your preferred settings for each profile. Circles Bonfire Circles are lists of users that individual users and admins can create based on levels of trust and intimacy. And permissions control circle activities. Shared Circles are co-managed by users and can include other Fediverse users (interoperability). (Again this will be disabled for Manade as it’s a members only, quick start instance). Everyone in a circle can be followed. Circles can also be used as lists or to filter sidebar feeds. And they can be made into custom feeds. Bonfire allows you to define circles based on your unique style of relationships and interests. And circles give you the ability to manage relationships and activities in a way that works for you. You can find your circles in settings and create new ones. Add members to a circle when creating it or by editing an existing circle. And every circle has its own feed, showing posts and activities from its members. Circles are private by default, but you can share a circle with others. When someone receives your share link (and has permission via the boundary you selected), they can: View the circle’s feed and see activities from its members. See a list of members and optionally click a “Follow all members” button to quickly follow everyone in the circle. Admins can create default circles. Bonfire also comes with some default circles, like “people I follow”. Obviously, these capabilities makes it simple to coordinate, discover, and connect with others in your Bonfire instance. It’s all up to you. Boundaries As you might expect, Boundaries are limits that you place on yourself or other users to control what you’re comfortable with while using Bonfire. They control how others interact with individual users’ content / posts / activities etc. And there are many options. Bonfire succinctly notes: “Boundaries takes things to the next level by enabling you to combine one or more circles and then grant specific roles to each circle.” And they are compatible with Mastodon quote authorizations and GoToSocial interaction controls. (But not for Manade of course). With Boundaries you can allow your “friends” circle to reply and like, but restrict “acquaintances” to only read. You can even block a specific user from interacting at all. Define boundaries when posting or create one in your boundary settings. Just give it a name and description and you can reuse it anytime you post and want to apply the same boundaries. Groups Bonfire Groups have come along since some of our previous articles. They are self-governed spaces where members from different servers coordinate, collaborate, and organize around shared topics without platform lock-in. (Obviously, this will be disabled in Manade. Again, it’s a private not public starter instance. But you can also create groups inside a Manade instance. I think.) Anyway, groups can be public, private, or unlisted with fine-grained control over who can see their content. Community members can join groups, leave at any time, and admins will manage membership, roles, and permissions. Along with moderators they manage content and enforce community standards. As an user, you may create posts, discussions, and threaded conversations within a group. These are separate from your personal feed. This is fairly unique in the Fediverse. When enabled, group posts and activities can appear in remote Fediverse platforms. There, remote users can interact with them at a basic level. And you can discover public groups based on interests, topics, or recommendations. Channels Groups can have multiple channels (topics / rooms) for various topics. This has the benefit of allowing group members to organize conversations without everything collapsing into one poorly navigable feed. This is similar to Matrix’s functionality. Feeds, Custom Feeds, & Filters Speaking of feeds, Bonfire gives you powerful tools to customize your experience via your navigation controls as well as in feeds and timelines. Select the feeds that appear in your navigation section. They include: presets like Following, Local, Articles, Bookmarks, Explore, Likes, and more (Events, Audio, Images, Bookmarks, etc.). and your custom circles of people are also shown as feeds, as mentioned above. You can filter feeds: by content types (only images, only articles, only events, etc.). by activity types (only boosts, only replies, etc.). and by time range, local / remote, and more. Extensibility Widgets Bonfire developers can create widgets. They are reusable components that encapsulate data and provide context-specific information to users based on the pages they are currently viewing. Widgets are typically placed in the right sidebar and developers can define which widgets should appear on each page and in what order. Developers can also include options for users to enable, disable, or rearrange the order of some widgets. They usually consist of a title and data formatted in various ways. They could include links, data visualizations, actions, or information fetched from third-party apps. (FYI, Manade will try to avoid 3rd party widgets and apps unless Bonfire explicitly integrates them. For example Ghost CMS and their LAUTI calendar capabilities. And I am not sure about those to be honest). Extensions (Also, Manade will come with limited extensions {maybe the two below}, at this point.) Bonfire’s extensions are code collections that deliver new features and enhance the platform’s functionality. Or they could create a different user experience for an existing feature. For example adding entirely new pages, such as bonfire_invite_links. These let admins create and share invites with usage limit and expiration date. They could also implement specific components or widgets. Another example is bonfire_editor_milkdown, which integrates a markdown-first editor for publishing activities. Which is fantastic as we recommend writing everything in markdown. Extensions are versatile: they can implement their own schema, database, logic, and components they can leverage existing fields, context functions, and UI components or more commonly, a combination of both. So, your instance’s developers and admins have a tremendous amount of customization power. Community-driven governance Instance admins also have access to advanced tools to manage users, extensions, and the overall health of their Bonfire instance. These tools include: user management instance settings circles, roles & boundaries management and advanced monitoring and maintenance. Of course your community’s admins, moderators, and user members can democratically agree on its norms. (As a starter instance, Manade will be a magical kingdom run by an enlightened despot, me. 😉 But, communities will customize it in their image {democratic I hope} once their admins have the instance up and running). Privacy/security-focused As you saw in the boundaries section above, Bonfire provides flexible tools to help you manage your experience, protect your boundaries, and keep your community safe. You can also flag or hide posts. To flag, report a post to moderators for review. You should explain which boundaries were broken and the action you request. To hide a post just remove it your feed. You can still view it via direct link. Blocking in Bonfire includes silencing and ghosting. If you silence someone it hides all content from that user in your feeds. You won’t see their posts, mentions, or messages, but you can still view their profile via direct link. Ghosting stops a user or instance from seeing or interacting with you or your content. They won’t see your private posts, can’t follow you, and you can’t mention or message them. When you block someone Bonfire combines both the silence and ghost functionality. You can manage your block, silence, and ghost lists from the Safety section in the sidebar. You are in total control. This is rare in the Fediverse. Bonfire also lets you import blocklists from trusted sources to silence or ghost multiple users or instances at once. These are a fantastic resource. And of course admins and moderators can do all of this instance wide. Be sure to give them your input. OK, that’s enough for now. Wrapping it up As you have seen, Bonfire might (just maybe) have the potential to be the everything app of the open web. 🤯 And it contributes to the trend of people leaving public social for authentic, private, and preferably local communities. This a truly fortunate one IMHO. 😈 In any event, Bonfire is very flexible, customizable, and even a little anarchic. 🏴‍☠️ Other open social platforms will have similar capabilities. And there are simpler options available. I am impressed with Acorn from Blacksky which is built with ATProto. However, it’s not self-hostable. But for the reasons stated here, I believe Bonfire provides the flexibility and potential to alter what social media and the open web mean to communities. And that is supporting communities against techno feudalism and surveillance capitalism. ⛓️‍💥 Fuck them and techno fascists. 🗡️💣 🪢 That’s why we’ve fallen in love with the idea of Bonfire. And our Manade project 🐴 is going to help in a small way to bring that potential to fruition and to you and your communities! 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Manade is an example / starter private instance of Bonfire that {preferably} local communities can {preferably} use democratically to support themselves against techno feudalism and surveillance capitalism without government interference)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"The Difference"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":34,"byteStart":18},"features":[{"uri":"https://www.thefulcrum.dev/grab-a-seat-at-our-bonfire-the-revolutionary-community-platform/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"As mentioned in a previous article:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"\"Bonfire stands apart from other Fediverse platforms due to its Circles, Boundaries, and upcoming Groups. 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And permissions control circle activities."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Shared Circles are co-managed by users and can include other Fediverse users (interoperability). (Again this will be disabled for Manade as it's a members only, quick start instance)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Everyone in a circle can be followed. Circles can also be used as lists or to filter sidebar feeds. And they can be made into custom feeds."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire allows you to define circles based on your unique style of relationships and interests. And circles give you the ability to manage relationships and activities in a way that works for you."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"You can find your circles in settings and create new ones. Add members to a circle when creating it or by editing an existing circle."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"And every circle has its own feed, showing posts and activities from its members."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Circles are private by default, but you can share a circle with others."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"When someone receives your share link (and has permission via the boundary you selected), they can:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList","children":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"View the circle's feed and see activities from its members."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"See a list of members and optionally click a \"Follow all members\" button to quickly follow everyone in the circle."}}]}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":" "}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Admins can create default circles. Bonfire also comes with some default circles, like “people I follow”. Obviously, these capabilities makes it simple to coordinate, discover, and connect with others in your Bonfire instance. It's all up to you."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Boundaries"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"As you might expect, Boundaries are limits that you place on yourself or other users to control what you're comfortable with while using Bonfire."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"They control how others interact with individual users' content / posts / activities etc. And there are many options."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire succinctly notes: \"Boundaries takes things to the next level by enabling you to combine one or more circles and then grant specific roles to each circle.\""}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"And they are compatible with Mastodon quote authorizations and GoToSocial interaction controls. (But not for Manade of course)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"With Boundaries you can allow your \"friends\" circle to reply and like, but restrict \"acquaintances\" to only read. You can even block a specific user from interacting at all."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Define boundaries when posting or create one in your boundary settings. Just give it a name and description and you can reuse it anytime you post and want to apply the same boundaries."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Groups"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire Groups have come along since some of our previous articles."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"They are self-governed spaces where members from different servers coordinate, collaborate, and organize around shared topics without platform lock-in. (Obviously, this will be disabled in Manade. Again, it's a private not public starter instance. But you can also create groups inside a Manade instance. I think.)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Anyway, groups can be public, private, or unlisted with fine-grained control over who can see their content."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Community members can join groups, leave at any time, and admins will manage membership, roles, and permissions. Along with moderators they manage content and enforce community standards."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"As an user, you may create posts, discussions, and threaded conversations within a group. These are separate from your personal feed. This is fairly unique in the Fediverse."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"When enabled, group posts and activities can appear in remote Fediverse platforms. There, remote users can interact with them at a basic level."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"And you can discover public groups based on interests, topics, or recommendations."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":4,"plaintext":"Channels"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Groups can have multiple channels (topics / rooms) for various topics. This has the benefit of allowing group members to organize conversations without everything collapsing into one poorly navigable feed. This is similar to Matrix's functionality."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Feeds, Custom Feeds, & Filters"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Speaking of feeds, Bonfire gives you powerful tools to customize your experience via your navigation controls as well as in feeds and timelines."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Select the feeds that appear in your navigation section. They include:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList","children":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"presets like Following, Local, Articles, Bookmarks, Explore, Likes, and more (Events, Audio, Images, Bookmarks, etc.)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"and your custom circles of people are also shown as feeds, as mentioned above."}}]}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"You can filter feeds:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList","children":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"by content types (only images, only articles, only events, etc.)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"by activity types (only boosts, only replies, etc.)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"and by time range, local / remote, and more."}}]}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":" "}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Extensibility"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":4,"plaintext":"Widgets"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire developers can create widgets. They are reusable components that encapsulate data and provide context-specific information to users based on the pages they are currently viewing."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Widgets are typically placed in the right sidebar and developers can define which widgets should appear on each page and in what order."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Developers can also include options for users to enable, disable, or rearrange the order of some widgets."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"They usually consist of a title and data formatted in various ways. They could include links, data visualizations, actions, or information fetched from third-party apps."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"(FYI, Manade will try to avoid 3rd party widgets and apps unless Bonfire explicitly integrates them. For example Ghost CMS and their LAUTI calendar capabilities. And I am not sure about those to be honest)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":4,"plaintext":"Extensions"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"(Also, Manade will come with limited extensions {maybe the two below}, at this point.)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire's extensions are code collections that deliver new features and enhance the platform's functionality. Or they could create a different user experience for an existing feature."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"For example adding entirely new pages, such as bonfire_invite_links. These let admins create and share invites with usage limit and expiration date. They could also implement specific components or widgets."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Another example is bonfire_editor_milkdown, which integrates a markdown-first editor for publishing activities. Which is fantastic as we recommend writing everything in markdown."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Extensions are versatile:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList","children":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"they can implement their own schema, database, logic, and components"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"they can leverage existing fields, context functions, and UI components"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"or more commonly, a combination of both."}}]}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":" "}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"So, your instance's developers and admins have a tremendous amount of customization power."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Community-driven governance"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Instance admins also have access to advanced tools to manage users, extensions, and the overall health of their Bonfire instance."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"These tools include:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList","children":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"user management"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"instance settings"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"circles, roles & boundaries management"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"and advanced monitoring and maintenance."}}]}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":" "}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Of course your community's admins, moderators, and user members can democratically agree on its norms."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":89,"byteStart":87},"features":[{"uri":"https://site.manade.org/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"(As a starter instance, Manade will be a magical kingdom run by an enlightened despot, me. 😉 But, communities will customize it in their image {democratic I hope} once their admins have the instance up and running)."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Privacy/security-focused"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"As you saw in the boundaries section above, Bonfire provides flexible tools to help you manage your experience, protect your boundaries, and keep your community safe."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"You can also flag or hide posts."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"To flag, report a post to moderators for review. You should explain which boundaries were broken and the action you request. To hide a post just remove it your feed. You can still view it via direct link."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Blocking in Bonfire includes silencing and ghosting."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"If you silence someone it hides all content from that user in your feeds. You won't see their posts, mentions, or messages, but you can still view their profile via direct link."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Ghosting stops a user or instance from seeing or interacting with you or your content. They won't see your private posts, can't follow you, and you can't mention or message them."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"When you block someone Bonfire combines both the silence and ghost functionality."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"You can manage your block, silence, and ghost lists from the Safety section in the sidebar. You are in total control. This is rare in the Fediverse."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire also lets you import blocklists from trusted sources to silence or ghost multiple users or instances at once. These are a fantastic resource."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"And of course admins and moderators can do all of this instance wide. Be sure to give them your input."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"OK, that's enough for now."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"Wrapping it up"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"As you have seen, Bonfire might (just maybe) have the potential to be the everything app of the open web. 🤯"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"And it contributes to the trend of people leaving public social for authentic, private, and preferably local communities. This a truly fortunate one IMHO. 😈"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"In any event, Bonfire is very flexible, customizable, and even a little anarchic. 🏴‍☠️"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Other open social platforms will have similar capabilities. And there are simpler options available. I am impressed with Acorn from Blacksky which is built with ATProto. However, it's not self-hostable."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"But for the reasons stated here, I believe Bonfire provides the flexibility and potential to alter what social media and the open web mean to communities. And that is supporting communities against techno feudalism and surveillance capitalism. ⛓️‍💥 Fuck them and techno fascists. 🗡️💣 🪢"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":81,"byteStart":67},"features":[{"uri":"https://site.manade.org/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"That's why we've fallen in love with the idea of Bonfire. And our Manade project 🐴 is going to help in a small way to bring that potential to fruition and to you and your communities!"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Thanks for reading and go build a community on Bonfire. 🔥 Eventually you will be able to with Manade."}}]}]},"bskyPostRef":{"cid":"bafyreibkpzgyqx5lojtq5zgjqi6brxmcbbhc7mmmpfgocq5tg6wxm5qhmy","uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhqmnpiek2d","commit":{"cid":"bafyreihjshhmzgu5kr5f55q7ouaw3iy4im4ddlwacfmcwph5pqmopumrpi","rev":"3mmhqmnuoem2l"},"validationStatus":"valid"},"description":"This article explores what sets Bonfire apart (for its users) from closed commercial social platforms and even its peers on open social.","publishedAt":"2026-05-22T20:11:54.802Z","theme":"$undefined","preferences":"$undefined"},"uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.document/3mmhqmhliv22s","sort_date":"2026-05-22T20:11:54.802+00:00"}}] 50:T2bd0,This article explores Bonfire Flavours, the platform’s starter apps targeted to specific types of communities. It originally appeared on The Fulcrum’s official website. In the May 8, 2026 The Programmers Fulcrum we announced the beginning of development work on our Manade project with a co-op. It will be built on the Bonfire platform and you will hear more about it over the coming months, starting today. Manade will function as an opinionated (blueprint, template, example, starter-kit, etc.) instance for communities to (hopefully) get a quick and easy installation of Bonfire up and running. They can then customize it to meet their needs and goals. Our goal is to have something you can build off of in 2027. Bonfire is aimed at communities and can permit completely private instances. This is what Manade will be. It’s not for the masses. That’s what Fediverse platforms like Mastodon or ATProto ones like Eurosky, Blacksky, Northsky, etc. are built for. At the same time any Bonfire instance will be a community, not a silo. There are differences of opinions in communities. If you think of public instances as pubs, you can think of Bonfire instances as clubs. But not the rave type.🕺 One is open to the general public and the other requires a membership. And in turn that membership may have requirements. A great aspect of Bonfire is that you can seamlessly migrate your entire social presence (including posts, follows, circles, and bookmarks) between instances with import tools and a migration dashboard. Finally, if the community wants it (and the administrators allow it) you still have the option to interact with millions of users across Mastodon, PeerTube, Mobilizon, and the wider Fediverse using ActivityPub. When enabled, protocol bridges also connect you with the Atmosphere and beyond. We want to provide a tool for future communities to support local individuals, groups, and alternative small businesses that take power away from extractive big capital, enshittifying big tech, and abusive big government. 🏴‍☠️ ⛓️‍💥 🛠️ Anyway, in this article we’ll explore Bonfire Flavours. What is a Bonfire Flavour? As I wrote in Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform , Bonfire will eventually have multiple options for new installations. These apps called Flavours are a curated set of features, extensions, and default settings. Flavours are designed to suit particular styles of communities or their activities. They are set during installation or via an instance’s configuration. However, they are just starting points. You can enable or disable Bonfire extensions. If you’re hosting your own instance, you can even install other extensions not included in the flavour. Flavours allow the adjustment of settings and the development of plugins to fit your community’s unique needs. So, here are Bonfires flavours and the stage of development they are in: Ember (which is basic and stable if you want to customize Bonfire) Social (which is recommended and in Beta) Open Science (Beta) Community (which is in Alpha) Coordination for teams (Alpha) Cooperation for organizations, co-ops, or mutual aid groups (Prototype) Federated Archives for the Federated Archives Alliance (Prototype) As an example, the Social flavor would be similar to other Fediverse apps. Since Manade’s purpose is to support communities against techno feudalism and surveillance capitalism, our blueprint will use the Community flavour. Plus, a manade is a semi-wild herd of horses led by a gardian in the Camargue area in France. Herd / community. Gardian / administrator. Get it. The Community flavor features group spaces and collaborative moderation. Again, these are features unique to Bonfire. The Flavours Ember This app is a minimal, privacy-focused flavour with only core features enabled. Ideal for individuals or small groups who want a lightweight, distraction-free experience, or who care most about privacy and simplicity. All the remaining flavors will have Ember’s capabilities. Social This app will be familiar to most social network users. While similar to Mastodon or other Fediverse microblogging platforms (posts, follows, etc.) it also has circles, boundaries, and groups. In addition, it supports long-form blogging, both public and private posts, custom feeds, content warnings, and rich privacy and security controls. Bonfire Social is also your gateway into the Fediverse while staying self-hostable and community-governed. Features Let’s explore the Social flavour’s features. Custom feeds allow users to filter and sort by content type, circle, date, engagement, source instance, and more. You can save presets and arrange them however you prefer. Circles are lists of people (community friends, teams, mutual aid groups, etc.) with their own feed comprising posts from the circle members. Users create their circles. And they can only include members of the instance if desired. Boundaries allow you to choose who can see, reply, quote, or even edit a post. For example a user could make a post public but accept replies only from a specific circle. Boundaries are compatible with GoToSocial interaction controls and Mastodon quote authorizations. All of the Flavours below will have most of social’s capabilities. If you want to sample this familiar flavour, visit https://campground.bonfire.cafe. Open Science This app was created for researchers, academics, and open science communities. It was one of Bonfire’s first projects and includes features for sharing publications and discussions around scientific work. And it demonstrates the flexibility, customizing potential, and componentization capabilities of the platform. Thus, it has the most features out of the box. Features Users can federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate their social graph with scholarly data. They can also transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers. Members can sign in with ORCID, Zenodo, or an institutional SSO. Publications, affiliations, and research interests can be imported directly from sources like ORCID and OpenAlex. Posts and conversations may receive DOIs and become citable FAIR objects. Meaningful user exchanges can be preserved as part of the scholarly record (not lost in private threads) through integrations with a growing list of repositories. Members can share papers and see them come alive where metadata, co-authors, datasets, and related works appear instantly. Colleagues can join the conversation no matter what platforms they use. Finally, you may add repository connectors, peer review workflows, or research tools as your community evolves. Sample this sophisticated flavour at https://sandbox.openscience.network. Community This app focuses on group collaboration and shared spaces. Ideal for neighbourhoods, clubs, or grassroots groups who want to organize, discuss, and make decisions together. Includes group spaces and importantly collective moderation. The community flavour facilitates coordinated activities, topical discussions, and more nuanced governance structures. It includes Groups for flexible discussions and Topics for organized conversation. This capability promotes clarity and focus along with the flexibility to set specific visibility and permission levels. Members can create public and private groups for wide-reaching discussions or confidential, selective conversations. This flexibility supports both inclusive community engagement and private interactions. Users can also organize discussions in topics. This functionality allows categorization of discussions into distinct topics. It has the benefit of encouraging focused dialogue and easier navigation through group activities. In addition, community members can create and assign roles in groups. This feature allows for personalized management of group dynamics and responsibilities. Role assignment enables tailored governance structures within communities, enhancing both organization and user experience. The community flavour will allow Manade to have minimal moderation headaches, and maximum freedom from governmental regulations. Because it will be private and will only accept new members from existing member invitations. Preferably, it can require more than one member to invite someone to join. Of course, upon appeal admins will be able to add new members directly in order to avoid cliques and discrimination. Coordination This app is tailored for teams or networks that need to coordinate tasks, events, and shared goals. Features include task boards and collaborative decision-making tools. So, it’s perfect for ActivityPub developers. 😈 With federated Kanban boards and task management, this flavor can enhance team efficiency and empower individual users. Coordination uses the ValueFlows open economic vocabulary, offering the potential to foster decentralized and cooperative workflows. Cooperation This app is for communities requiring co-operative tools. It too uses the ValueFlows open economic vocabulary. Members can manage and share resources. And this flavour supports more complex governance and tools for managing collective assets, production, and exchange. Again, it’s just a prototype for now. Federated Archive Alliance This app connects and empowers public media archives worldwide. It enables archives to maintain autonomy while participating in a collaborative network. The flavour also allows their collections to be discoverable and accessible across the Fediverse. It facilitates seamless sharing of movie catalogs between participating archives, with granular permission controls that respect each organization’s policies. Curators, researchers, and other authorized members can search across the federated network, create curated collections, and contribute to the curation of metadata. All while preserving the provenance of each item. It’s also just a prototype. How do you choose a flavour? When joining Bonfire, users choose an instance with a flavour that fits their individual needs. So, this is an important decision that merits some research. You can always migrate, but it’s better to start with an instance where you will feel comfortable. For a new community an instance’s flavour determines which extensions are enabled by default. But administrators can always add or remove extensions later. Again, they can switch flavours or customize the instance at any time. Wrapping it up As you have seen, Flavours make it easy to get started with the right set of tools for your community. You don’t need to be an expert to launch a Bonfire instance that fits your goals. And we hope our Manade project will provide some guidance and an easier launch process for your community. Like the Bonfire platform itself, Flavours are incredibly flexible, customizable, and extensible. Choose one that will let you savor the satisfying and nourishing banquet your community will provide. Thanks for reading and start a bonfire today. P.S. Too learn more about Bonfire, read our article Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform . 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At the same time any Bonfire instance will be a community, not a silo. There are differences of opinions in communities."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"If you think of public instances as pubs, you can think of Bonfire instances as clubs. But not the rave type.🕺 One is open to the general public and the other requires a membership. And in turn that membership may have requirements."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"A great aspect of Bonfire is that you can seamlessly migrate your entire social presence (including posts, follows, circles, and bookmarks) between instances with import tools and a migration dashboard."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Finally, if the community wants it (and the administrators allow it) you still have the option to interact with millions of users across Mastodon, PeerTube, Mobilizon, and the wider Fediverse using ActivityPub. When enabled, protocol bridges also connect you with the Atmosphere and beyond."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"We want to provide a tool for future communities to support local individuals, groups, and alternative small businesses that take power away from extractive big capital, enshittifying big tech, and abusive big government. 🏴‍☠️ ⛓️‍💥 🛠️"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Anyway, in this article we'll explore Bonfire Flavours."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"What is a Bonfire Flavour?"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":78,"byteStart":14},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#italic"},{"uri":"https://site.manade.org/notes/exploring-bonfire","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"As I wrote in Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform , Bonfire will eventually have multiple options for new installations. These apps called Flavours are a curated set of features, extensions, and default settings. Flavours are designed to suit particular styles of communities or their activities."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"They are set during installation or via an instance’s configuration. However, they are just starting points. You can enable or disable Bonfire extensions. If you're hosting your own instance, you can even install other extensions not included in the flavour."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Flavours allow the adjustment of settings and the development of plugins to fit your community’s unique needs."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"So, here are Bonfires flavours and the stage of development they are in:"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList","children":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Ember (which is basic and stable if you want to customize Bonfire)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Social (which is recommended and in Beta)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Open Science (Beta)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Community (which is in Alpha)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":22,"byteStart":13},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#italic"}]}],"plaintext":"Coordination for teams (Alpha)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":59,"byteStart":12},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#italic"}]}],"plaintext":"Cooperation for organizations, co-ops, or mutual aid groups (Prototype)"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.unorderedList#listItem","content":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":54,"byteStart":19},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#italic"}]}],"plaintext":"Federated Archives for the Federated Archives Alliance (Prototype)"}}]}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"As an example, the Social flavor would be similar to other Fediverse apps."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Since Manade's purpose is to support communities against techno feudalism and surveillance capitalism, our blueprint will use the Community flavour. Plus, a manade is a semi-wild herd of horses led by a gardian in the Camargue area in France."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Herd / community. Gardian / administrator. Get it."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"The Community flavor features group spaces and collaborative moderation. Again, these are features unique to Bonfire."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"The Flavours"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Ember"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"This app is a minimal, privacy-focused flavour with only core features enabled. 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In addition, it supports long-form blogging, both public and private posts, custom feeds, content warnings, and rich privacy and security controls."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Bonfire Social is also your gateway into the Fediverse while staying self-hostable and community-governed."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":4,"plaintext":"Features"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Let's explore the Social flavour's features."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":12,"byteStart":0},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#bold"}]}],"plaintext":"Custom feeds allow users to filter and sort by content type, circle, date, engagement, source instance, and more. You can save presets and arrange them however you prefer."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":7,"byteStart":0},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#bold"}]},{"index":{"byteEnd":78,"byteStart":29},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#italic"}]}],"plaintext":"Circles are lists of people (community friends, teams, mutual aid groups, etc.) with their own feed comprising posts from the circle members. Users create their circles. And they can only include members of the instance if desired."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":10,"byteStart":0},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#bold"}]}],"plaintext":"Boundaries allow you to choose who can see, reply, quote, or even edit a post. For example a user could make a post public but accept replies only from a specific circle. Boundaries are compatible with GoToSocial interaction controls and Mastodon quote authorizations."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"All of the Flavours below will have most of social's capabilities."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":82,"byteStart":51},"features":[{"uri":"https://campground.bonfire.cafe","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"If you want to sample this familiar flavour, visit https://campground.bonfire.cafe."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Open Science"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":8,"byteStart":5},"features":[{"uri":"https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/open-science/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"This app was created for researchers, academics, and open science communities. 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Ideal for neighbourhoods, clubs, or grassroots groups who want to organize, discuss, and make decisions together. Includes group spaces and importantly collective moderation."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":137,"byteStart":131},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#bold"}]},{"index":{"byteEnd":173,"byteStart":167},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#bold"}]}],"plaintext":"The community flavour facilitates coordinated activities, topical discussions, and more nuanced governance structures. It includes Groups for flexible discussions and Topics for organized conversation. 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It has the benefit of encouraging focused dialogue and easier navigation through group activities."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":58,"byteStart":53},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#bold"}]}],"plaintext":"In addition, community members can create and assign roles in groups. This feature allows for personalized management of group dynamics and responsibilities. Role assignment enables tailored governance structures within communities, enhancing both organization and user experience."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"The community flavour will allow Manade to have minimal moderation headaches, and maximum freedom from governmental regulations. Because it will be private and will only accept new members from existing member invitations. Preferably, it can require more than one member to invite someone to join. Of course, upon appeal admins will be able to add new members directly in order to avoid cliques and discrimination."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Coordination"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":8,"byteStart":5},"features":[{"uri":"https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/coordination/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"This app is tailored for teams or networks that need to coordinate tasks, events, and shared goals. Features include task boards and collaborative decision-making tools."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"So, it's perfect for ActivityPub developers. 😈"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"With federated Kanban boards and task management, this flavor can enhance team efficiency and empower individual users. 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And this flavour supports more complex governance and tools for managing collective assets, production, and exchange."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Again, it's just a prototype for now."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":3,"plaintext":"Federated Archive Alliance"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":8,"byteStart":5},"features":[{"uri":"https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/federated_archives/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"This app connects and empowers public media archives worldwide. It enables archives to maintain autonomy while participating in a collaborative network. 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All while preserving the provenance of each item."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"It's also just a prototype."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"How do you choose a flavour?"}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"When joining Bonfire, users choose an instance with a flavour that fits their individual needs. So, this is an important decision that merits some research. You can always migrate, but it's better to start with an instance where you will feel comfortable."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"For a new community an instance's flavour determines which extensions are enabled by default. But administrators can always add or remove extensions later. 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And we hope our Manade project will provide some guidance and an easier launch process for your community."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Like the Bonfire platform itself, Flavours are incredibly flexible, customizable, and extensible."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Choose one that will let you savor the satisfying and nourishing banquet your community will provide."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","plaintext":"Thanks for reading and start a bonfire today."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.header","level":2,"plaintext":"P.S."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":111,"byteStart":47},"features":[{"$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#italic"},{"uri":"https://site.manade.org/notes/exploring-bonfire","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"Too learn more about Bonfire, read our article Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform ."}},{"$type":"pub.leaflet.pages.linearDocument#block","block":{"$type":"pub.leaflet.blocks.text","facets":[{"index":{"byteEnd":70,"byteStart":21},"features":[{"uri":"https://www.thefulcrum.dev/tam-and-omn-tools-for-potential-bonfire-workflows/","$type":"pub.leaflet.richtext.facet#link"}]}],"plaintext":"You can also explore TAM and OMN tools for potential Bonfire workflows."}}]}]},"bskyPostRef":{"cid":"bafyreihbhyz6vak6zgwi34b3qsqmk3cj23rx6l4w2xp3rn6igyznygjiqu","uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsvpdrdz225","commit":{"cid":"bafyreialx2rkt347ynrxsjg6auwqafu5kka2t7vvl7sovrajtt3axblu6e","rev":"3mlsvpdwcjt2i"},"validationStatus":"valid"},"description":"This article explores Bonfire Flavours, the platform’s starter apps targeted to specific types of communities. 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This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Cloudfare writes: WordPress powers over 40% of the Internet. It is a massive success that has enabled anyone to be a publisher, and created a global community of WordPress developers. But the WordPress open source project will be 24 years old this year. Hosting a website has changed dramatically during that time. When WordPress was born, AWS EC2 didn’t exist. In the intervening years, that task has gone from renting virtual private servers, to uploading a JavaScript bundle to a globally distributed network at virtually no cost. It’s time to upgrade the most popular CMS on the Internet to take advantage of this change. Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Joost de Valk says: When Cloudflare launched EmDash CMS on April 1st, the reactions came fast — from Matt Mullenweg himself, from Hendrik Luehrsen at Kraut.press, and from Brian Coords. Each piece approached EmDash differently, but together they crystallized something I’ve been thinking about for years: WordPress’s deepest technical problems aren’t at the surface. They’re architectural. And the WordPress project keeps treating them as cosmetic. WordPress needs to refactor, not redecorate Anything that simplifies WordPress would be welcome, especially if it’s open-source. Which unfortunately, this really isn’t. I tried to get it working locally and couldn’t. It’s effectively a Cloudflare only product for now. Plus while it’s built on top of Astro, it has the stink of AI code all over it. Rich Tabor comments: You’ve heard about EmDash, Cloudflare’s “spiritual successor to WordPress.” It’s an interesting demo with some good ideas. But a successor to WordPress? Not quite. Just Another CMS Sadly the ease of working with AI agents is what he is most impressed with. Personally, I am sick of open-source projects shoving AI in where it’s not wanted (core code vs optional plugins/modules). So, I am going to put my time where mouth is and stop daily WordPress and Drupal coverage. An item might make it into a TPF post every now and again. They are evolving into over-complicated clusterfucks anyway. Having said that, Drupal has one of the best communities going. Its corporate-oriented foundation leadership is just enshittifying. And agencies have always been the tail wagging the Drupal dog. Its why DrupalCamp Grenoble, which I attended and sponsored this week will be my last one. And that’s frustrating. You government and nonprofit Drupalers need to push back real hard against this shit. Open Media Network – Site/Blog/CMS And we have the first exception to our new rule: How to deactivate all AI features from Jetpack on WordPress 😉 CybersecKyle says: I Believe in Human Websites. I Still Care About Polish Same here. Toni Notes notes: Simple systems age better than impressive ones That’s why we preach KISS and another reason we’re dropping WordPress and Drupal coverage. I am going to primarily concentrate on markdown-based, database-free, static site tech going forward. Plus Bonfire. 😉 RunTimeTerror posts: Hello from Sveltia CMS! Great blog name. 🧛🏼‍♀️ Astro Astro announces: Astro 6.1 PurpleSyringa opines: There is absolutely nothing wrong with Web I think they mean Web 1.0. I am not sure if Astro is simple enough for us to endorse and cover long-term, but at least you can use vanilla Javascript. Personally, it reminds me too much of my fullstack webdev bootcamp. 😱 Bear A Barrel of Words goes: From HackerNews to Bear Backdrop CMS Backdrop CMS shares: Backdrop CMS Core Priorities: We Want Your Input Tell them if they want to add a lot of disaffected Drupal users to stay the fuck away from AI in their core. Ghost Closing Tags explores: Theme Development for Ghost Great blog name. Build Awesome Web Awesome announces: Web Awesome is now available on our public CDN Write.as / WriteFreely Musing Studio announces: Since our Markdown preview has been working well on WriteAs, we’ll also be bringing it to WriteFreely in v0.17 Back to top 👆🏼 Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools TechPolicy shows us: How the Internet Can Survive an Era of Rivalry and Fragmentation Interoperability and standards are key to freedom. ⛓️‍💥 CNet reviews: This Privacy Smartphone Blocks Audio and Video Snooping at the Flick of a Switch NLNet announces: 57 Projects Receive NGI Zero Grants to Fix the Internet Some of those relevant here include YunoHost, Matdrige Spaces, FunFedi, Open PGP, LinuxBoot, and Loops Live. Browsers Waterfox announces: 6.6.11 – Security fixes and feature preview Cloud Writing LibreOffice announces: The New Writer Guide 26.2 Just Arrived The Document Foundation says: Let’s put an end to the speculation The Register reports: Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash Creative KdenLive announces: La version 26.04 RC de Kdenlive est prête pour passer en test. Linux/Open Android 9to5Linux reports: KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Is Coming on June 16th, Here’s What to Expect OpenSSL 3.6.2 Is Now Available for Download with Important Security Fixes Flatpak 1.16.4 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings Important Security Fixes F-Droid has: F-Droid Basic was updated to 2.0-alpha6 In the mirror universe This week’s featured OMN tool Kagi Kagi Search is a fast, private search engine. Orion Browser is a fast, zero-telemetry, browser. Kagi Back to top 👆🏼 OMN Programming Infrequently says: The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge So, use PWAs and get your government to force Google and Apple to stop suppressing them. Speaking of, Atif Afzal asks: Are web apps really slower than native? Joel Chrono examines: Verifying human authorship with human.json Drupal founder, Dries Buyaertd is: Introducing headers.dev Git Martin Lysk looks at: SQLite on Git, Prologue: Why do we need random access in git Crazy Milk says: Ciao, GitHub! Molto bene. SO is: Migrating issues from GitHub to Codeberg Nice heading font, So. HTML Squarespace has: Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy Loading to Today’s Browsers Henry Catalini Smith looks at: Inspecting HTML elements that disappear on blur Oida, is des org! explores: Enhance Dialogs with the closedby Attribute HTMX Alchemists examine: HTMX Configuration CSS CSS Tricks has: Looking at New CSS Multi-Column Layout Wrapping Features Alternatives to the !important Keyword A great one to bookmark. Roland demonstrates: Scroll Spy with Pure CSS using scroll-target-group Web Components Jay Sherby Learning Lit with 7GUIs and TodoMVC JavaScript Polypane shares: The Intl API: The best browser API you’re not using AI Erik “kusma” Faye-Lund explores: Open-source and AI Matt Taggart writes: I used AI. It worked. I hated it. Fantastic article. Han, not Solo examines: [The AI Great Leap Forward](https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/) This is worthy of a featured article. Read it. Other XWIKI shares an: Webinar overview | XWiki vs. Confluence: open-source knowledge management and migration demo This week’s featured programming tool HTMX Access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and SSE directly in HTML. HTMX I only attended three sessions at DrupalCamp Grenoble, one on caching and two on HTMX. So, it gets the nod this week. Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub FediLab announces: HolosDiscover 1.3.0 has been released! Internet Archive Blogs shows: How DWeb Camp is Being Built in Berlin This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Rocks This site is maintained by the current steward of the ActivityPub stack of standards. ActivityPub Rocks Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse Hamish Campbell has: What happened over the last ten years on our Fediverse path Beyond Blocking: Building Trust Infrastructure for the Open Web Fast Company reports: The web can still be wonderful, and Flipboard’s Surf proves it I agree and have used Flipboard for years as well as being one of the first Surf users. Stefan Hayden announces: Liveblog – a new mastodon client to quickly post durring live events FediTips reports: The free open source Fediverse photo platform Vernissage is now fully available in the iOS app store Mastodon wants your input for: Designing Collections Connected Places has its: FR158 – What is Mastodon for? Bonfire LAUTI announces: LAUTI Updates 2026 It’s being integrated into Bonfire! Back to top 👆🏼 More Lamb announces: Lamb 0.8.0 Web Mentions Max Glenister looks at: Baking webmentions into the build RSS Ben Crowder announces: Digest NetNewswire announces: NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac — new iCloud features XMPP Thanos Apollo is: Bringing jabber.el Back From the Dead Other Slightly Federated Social Media Kat Excellence shares: Thoughts on ATmosphereConf as an ATProto Newbie Connected Places has: Reflections on AtmosphereConf Bailey’s Retrospective announces: PDS MOOver: The mobile app? Any thing that migrates people off Bluesky and elsewhere in the ATmosphere is a great tool. Brittany Ellich explains: Why I’m betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) I would say hedge your bets. Just don’t join Bluesky. The same goes for mastodon.social BTW. Jake Lazaroff explores: Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto Blacksky wants some input from the community: Blacksky Algorithms’ Policy Towards Agentic Coding Democracy Tech Relational Tech Project looks interesting: Remixable Tools A good way to build something for your community. Decidim has: Nos infrastructures démocratiques ne peuvent pas être propriétaires : à propos de l’acquisition d’Open Source Politics eMail / Newsletters Ghost examines: Saving your subscribers Buttondown announces: Recovery codes for two-factor authentication CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at thefulcrum.eurosky.social for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Professor Patsch writes: I understand that in order to get people away from the places that are damaging to them, we should first provide an alternative that feels familiar. I posit that we have done that, and the big storm of people into the Fediverse has not happened, and probably will not ever happen. So where does this leave us, as activists, technologists, and dreamers? First off, I think it’s incredibly freeing. We have a license to try new things! We can come up with new ideas in small groups, driven by the actual wants and needs of us as the wider fediverse, small friend groups, and individual human beings. And best of all: advertisers are not our masters, and scaling is not our dogma! Can we have a more “social” media? This coincides with my opinion that the Fediverse is for communities not the masses. Hamish Campbell writes: The Open Media Network is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. If people can’t picture how the system works, they can’t govern it. Think: pipes, flows, and holding tanks. Content flows. People shape the flow. Let’s try and simplify the OMN A fantastic explanation. Open Media Network Site CMSs Joost de Valk of Yoast SEO fame asks: Do you need a CMS? And even if the answer is yes, you still probably need an SSG one. Timeland shares a similiar story: How I Migrated This Blog from WordPress to Astro Forbes reports: Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website Is enshittification exponential? Madblog Fabio Manganiello has: Support for post visibility in Madblog Support for About Me and custom nav links WordPress WordPress has: WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 2 WP Packages is Working the Way Open Source Should Make WordPress publishes its: WordPress 6.9.2 retrospective Alex Kirk announces: Friends 4.0 Learn WP Theme Dev shows us: How to set default block styles in a block theme The Repository reports: WordPress Is Colliding With AI — and Nobody Had ‘None’ on Their Bingo Card KISS is driving this but using AI to do so is still an immoral choice 95% of the time. Terence Eden explores: Adding human.json to WordPress Great idea. ClassicPress ClassicPress announces: ClassicPress Version 2.7.0 is Out! Ghost Ghost announces: Members-only podcasts Synaps Media is: Launching Free Ghost Theme Demo Hosting: Starting with ThemeX Studio John Nolan says: I built a CLI for Ghost Ben Werdmuller shares: His thoughts on it Drupal CMS I have selected my schedule for DrupalCamp Grenoble. Which, incredibly does not have any DrupalCMS or Canvas sessions. There are a few tangental and HTMX ones at least. Anyway, if you are attending, get in touch and I will treat you to a few (commiseration) beverages of your choice. Because ⬇️. I am going to the camp to decide if DrupalCMS 2.0 is easy enough for the average person to use for small sites (historically it’s sucked at usability). And also to determine if we keep covering it here. I think the answers will be no and that it doesn’t tightly fit with our objectives. And this was before they went all in on AI cuntitry and fascism at DrupalCon North America. It’s a shame because other than its tone-deaf, clueless, and business-suckup leadership, Drupal has a great community. It will probably be my last DrupalCamp. I definitely have no interest in using it personally anymore. Wim Leers opines about a: Validation-first Back to top 👆🏼 Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools The Image Cooperation shares: Why we started Image Cooperative A great TAM project. Bastian Greshake Tzovaras examines: Maintaining a human web: human.json & the ‘AI’ blacklist Kagi announces: Small Web Just Got Bigger Cool. It’s good for curation now that it has categories. Terence Eden recommends: Caboom! Comment Anywhere, Bring Onto Own Media A good strategy. Framablog has: L’alternative The European Commission looks at the: Cyber Resilience Act – Open source Clingendael shares: From Common Worries to Digital Commons: How Europe Can Stop Renting Clouds and Build Its Own Open_Future asks: Public Money, Public Platforms? On a related note, the Digital Public Goods Alliance explores: 5 Surprising Truths We Learned About Open Source in Government Interesting. VPN Mullvad announces: Mullvad Browser Alpha moves to Firefox Rapid Release and adds Linux ARM support Chat Signal has: Signal is working on the ability for admins to end group chats for everyone Insights into the latest encryption developments at Signal from the Real World Crypto Symposium Signal brings cross-platform on-device backups to Android beta Browsers 9to5Linux reports: Firefox 149 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New Prepare to update your Zen, Librewolf, and Waterfox browsers soon. Servo has its: Highlights from last week Cloud How to Geek explores: 6 Google Drive replacements for Linux Writing LibreOffice has: Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward Now that I’m a retired solo/social-preneur I mainly use markdown. But, this is still great to see! The Document Foundation announces the simultaneous availability of LibreOffice 26.2.2 and LibreOffice 25.8.6 It brings better markdown support which is tres bon. 9to5 Linux reports: Calibre 9.6 Adds New Card-Based View of Full-Text Search Results with Book Covers Creative Where’s Your Ed shares: Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Adobe 9to5Linux reports: OpenShot 3.5 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Default Timeline Krita 6.0 Digital Painting App Released with Wayland Color Management Support Linux A.B. Murrow says: I Don’t Want Birthday Gifts From Systemd, Even Optionally GrapheneOS announces: GrapheneOS version 2026032000 released Sailfish OS has: Sailfish Community News, 19th March 2026 – Meetup in Lyon next Saturday PostmarketOS has: New postmarketOS installations now by default use sudo-rs instead of doas Unmaintained devices to be archived after v26.06 9to5Linux reports: openSUSE Releases Agama 19 Installer with Many New Features and Improvements Fedora announces: The forge is our new home They are moving from rolling their own to Forgejo. Hosting / Serving Co-op Cloud has its: March 2026 community update You can deploy Bonfire and NodeBB with it among many more cool apps. Elena Rossini continues a series: A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance This week’s featured OMN tool Drupito Drupito is a hands off, coding-optional, maintainance-free version of Drupal CMS built with Drupal under the hood. Drupito It’s Drupal with less horseshit. Back to top 👆🏼 OMN Programming Geo Coop looks at: The Best Creative Commons License for the Solidarity Economy Git The Register reports: GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all Codeberg or Forgejo, peeps David Viramontes explores: Using Git Worktrees for Parallel Branch Development Markdown Armand Halbert says: Vim + Markdown = Writer’s Heaven Vlad Rișcuția has: DevLog 6: Extending Markdown HTML W3C shares: Two editors for HTML slides A great idea and two new OMN/TAM tools. CSS CSS Tricks explores: Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations Slick little effect. Kilian Valkhof examines: Progressive enhancement as a benefit of CSS Nesting Web Components I have been following this PWA-focused project for a while and its ready for production. Elena Ariel Saliminen explains its: Progressive Web Components JavaScript ESLint announces: ESLint v10.1.0 released Frontend Masters looks at: Shadow DOM Focus Delegation: Getting delegatesFocus Right AI Matthias Ott explores: The Shape of Friction Agents of Chaos publishes: An exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model–powered agents Any fucks that use AI should read this. Other XWIKI announces: Release Notes for XWiki 18.2.0-rc-1 Sasha Corti explains: Why Running Redis in a Local Docker Container Is a Smart Move for Developers This week’s featured programming tool Elena As mentioned above its: Elena Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub The Real Grunfink announces: I’ve just published version 2.91 of Snac New Public announces: Open Social Awards If you’re eligible, pat yourself on the back by applying. You could get some deserved recognition and cash. This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool Social Docs They’re the comprehensive developer resource for ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the Fediverse. Social Docs Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse FediSuite announces: Social media management for the Fediverse with a strong self-hosting focus Mastodon announces: A Redesign for Profiles Holos announces: Release 1.0.0 An automatic encrypted recovery system Letting you use your root domain as your identity while still using a subdomain for the relay Fedilab Apps announces: UntrackMe will be updated soon Funkwhale announces: Funkwhale 2.0.0 release Loops has: Introducing Starter Kits Starter Kits are federated I added an account and created a starterkit. It will take a while to build up of course. But, you can follow it now. Johnnny Wesley explores: Replacing Disqus with Mastodon Comments Another great though small OMN-friendly project/technique. Bonfire Newsmast announces: The new Newsmast Foundation website This is a mainstream news-oriented approach similar to what I am thinking about with Manade. Here’s Bonfire’s FOSDEM presentation: Bonfire: Modular Communication Tools on the Open Social Web Back to top 👆🏼 More Movim announces: Movim to ensure that UI is keyboard navigable Slidge announces: The Slidge family is growing RSS Alexandre Dulaunoy advises: Bring Back RSS for Operational Security P2P Sammy shares: 30 years of learning the hard way about p2p networks p2Panda says: We’ve been busy implementing p2panda’s high-level Node API! Other Slightly Federated Social Media A New Social announces: Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed Daniel Holmgren shares: Permissioned Data Diary 4: The Big Picture ATProto is: Introducing Hubble: A Public Mirror for the Whole Atmosphere Beaver(?) announces: ATProto Support Ryosuke examines: Free Auth and DB using ATProto Read this one in your browser’s reading mode. Democracy Tech Le Grand Continent asks: American heresy: should Peter Thiel be burned at the stake? One can hope. Open Source Observatory reports: Voxit polling platform launches European collaboration eMail / Newsletters 9to5 Linux reports: Thunderbird 149 Email Client Enables Exporting of Selected Address Book Cards CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at thefulcrum.eurosky.social for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! Blasts from the past Previous Battalion Posts Previous Symfony Station Posts3f:["$","$L30","at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.document/3mo3zv7y7bjwe",{"publication":{"href":"https://newsletter.mobileatom.net","pubRecord":{"url":"https://newsletter.mobileatom.net","icon":{"ref":{"$link":"bafkreigtyd64kg4l36lpkvnrxeat42geif5g2mt6t7cmqms7oc5oy27fri"},"size":36212,"$type":"blob","mimeType":"image/png"},"name":"The Fulcrum, too","$type":"site.standard.publication","basicTheme":{"$type":"site.standard.theme.basic","accent":{"b":17,"g":17,"r":17,"$type":"site.standard.theme.color#rgb"},"background":{"b":255,"g":255,"r":255,"$type":"site.standard.theme.color#rgb"},"foreground":{"b":17,"g":17,"r":17,"$type":"site.standard.theme.color#rgb"},"accentForeground":{"b":255,"g":255,"r":255,"$type":"site.standard.theme.color#rgb"}},"description":"Destroying Techno Feudalism","preferences":{"showComments":true,"showMentions":true,"showPrevNext":false,"showFirstLast":false,"showInDiscover":true,"showRecommends":true,"prevNextDirection":"rtl"},"theme":"$undefined"},"uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.publication/3mo3zofu7rpmq"},"ownerDid":"@thefulcrum.eurosky.social","contributors":[{"did":"did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath","handle":"thefulcrum.eurosky.social","displayName":"The Fulcrum by Reuben Walker"}],"documents":{"comments_on_documents":[{"count":0}],"document_mentions_in_bsky":[{"count":0}],"recommends_on_documents":[{"count":0}],"data":{"path":"/the-programmers-fulcrum-27-march-2026/","site":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.publication/3mo3zofu7rpmq","tags":["ActivityPub","ATProto","Beaver","bluesky","Bonfire","bridgyfed","Calibre","CSS"],"$type":"site.standard.document","title":"The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 27 March, 2026","updatedAt":"2026-03-28T16:21:48.000Z","coverImage":{"ref":{"$link":"bafkreiarnete5qi76yc6fpavloclsdkuejgewqmxdbos64nu5g7pevco6q"},"size":68555,"$type":"blob","mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"bskyPostRef":{"cid":"bafyreiab2q7ozhcc7qay23ejruz5kdwgegaqiicakmc4sl3qymyml7drdu","uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3zv7yicjwe"},"description":"Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of...","publishedAt":"2026-03-28T16:21:46.000Z","textContent":"$52","theme":"$undefined","preferences":"$undefined"},"uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.document/3mo3zv7y7bjwe","sort_date":"2026-03-28T16:21:46+00:00"}}] 53:T215d,Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Hamish Campbell writes: What can grassroots openweb people actually do when the EU is building alternatives to dotcons, but with very real risks of recreating European versions of the same problems? This is a historic moment, for the first time in decades public funding is flowing toward digital commons and infrastructure sovereignty is being taken seriously. But alongside this opportunity comes an obvious risk, that they replace Californian platform capitalism with European platform capitalism. The EU opportunity and danger, what grassroots projects can offer And he has this as one option: An affinity group is not just “a group of people who agree” Good Internet Magazine shares: One could argue that the modern web has become a Rube Goldberg machine of sorts, where instead of deliberate inefficiency, it has been inflicted accidentally. Pointless bloat brought on by tracking scripts, analytics, and optimization tools that serve no real purpose to the user and even prove disruptive to the provider in some cases. In the unrelenting pursuit of maximum efficiency and conversion, we’ve created the most inefficient systems imaginable. In spite of this, there is a counter-movement of sorts. Digital creators embracing the philosophy of Harold Harold and building websites that serve no corporate purpose. People creating interactive experiences that generate no revenue and crafting digital art that exists purely for the joy of creation and discovery. Rebelling against efficiency Be sure to buy an edition from them. And join the OMN with a useful or unuseful website. Open Media Network Site CMSs Simon Repp shares: Another early Faircamp 2.0 teaser WordPress Make WordPress has: What’s new in Gutenberg 22.5? (04 February) WordPress Playground has: wp-env now runs WordPress with Playground runtime This is simpler for simpler sites. Groundworx explains: Why I Choose Gutenberg Over Elementor The Repository reports: WordPress Meetup Organizers Back Revamp Plans, but Warn Infrastructure Must Catch Up WordPress AI Client Proposal Prompts Debate Ahead of Planned Core Merge in 7.0 Well, fuck. Mullenweg Calls for Markdown Endpoints on WordPress.org as He Pushes “Web OS” Vision Matt Mullenweg: Global Sponsors’ Products Should Be “Fair Game” For WordCamp Talks More on Automattic’s enshitification. Learn WP Theme Dev continues a series: Building a Custom Block Part 5: Adding Block Styles Delicious Brains explores: The Art of the WordPress Transient: Performance, Persistence, and Database Bloat WP Editor and Blocks examines: Client-Side Navigation with the Interactivity API Router Ghost Ghost has: Comment moderation Micro.blog Micro announces an: Updated text editor with full-screen mode and editing improvements Write.as Write.as announces: Post previews are here! Introducing Write.as Memberships If you are interested, now would be a good time to commit for $3 a month. See below. Celebrating 11 Years on the Web! Back to top 👆🏼 Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools Picalilli shares: The open source design stack Some good stuff here. Murena announces: Meet Murena Maps Chat Signal has: New Signal updates for Android, iOS, and Desktop bring mostly behind-the-scenes improvements Signal raises limit for audio and video calls to 75 participants Browsers FOSS Force says: Get Your Zen on With Zen Browser Fair warning, you might want to view this in reader mode. Igalia has: Interop 2026 Focus Areas Announced Cloud Nextcloud has: February maintenance updates before Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter release Writing Joplin announces: Joplin will come preloaded on the HMD Terra M Creative Linuxiac reports: GIMP 3.0.8 Delivers Bug Fixes Across Core, Tools, and Plugins KdenLive shares: Parametrized Keyframes – Status Report, February 2026 Linux Igalia reports: Linux 6.19 Released TecMint lists: 10 Tools to Make Bootable USB Drive from ISO in 2026 We all know Linux is a pain in the ass to install. But, here are some tools to help. LineageOS announces: Linux 6.19 Released Dominik Chrastecky shares: Patch what Android thinks is the installer of the given app This week’s featured OMN tool Publii Our retirement site, Les Chroniques de Walker is built with Publii. I’ve grown to like it. With the Publii app, you can create a beautiful, safe, and privacy-friendly website. Publii Back to top 👆🏼 OMN Programming Good Internet Magazine looks at: Unlocking a better future with old computers Seth Larson shows us: How to disable Copilot in GitHub? Better yet, don’t use GitHub. Mark Sample announces: Here’s Glitchlet HTMX OpenRelay explores: Building Infinite Scroll with HTMX Twig CSS Always Twisted examines: Underlining Links With CSS A good review. Frontend Masters has: Background Patterns with CSS corner-radius An Over-The-Top Spoiler Design with the Details Element Web Components Igalia looks at: Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too JavaScript Roberto Butti reviews: State of JS 2025: Popular Syntax Features Explained with PHP Equivalents David Duymelinck says: Javascript has a Typescript problem AI Local Ghost says to: Stop generating, start thinking Other Larvitz Blog reports: Podman 5.8: Quadlet Multi-File Install, Automatic SQLite Migration, and the Road to 6.0 This week’s featured programming tool Penpot Penpot is the web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers. Penpot Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub ActivityPub Space shares: ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce forum ActivityPub for WordPress announces its: Roadmap 2026 — Charting the stars of the open social web Great stuff coming. I wish I could say the same for Ghost. This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Rocks This site is maintained by the current steward of the ActivityPub stack of standards. ActivityPub Rocks Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse I ran across this tool: Thread Reader Holos has: Deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub’s adoption of JSON-LD Holos 1.0.0-rc-2 has been published Connected Places has: FR152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech ToToSocial announces: v0.21.0-rc1 Sacrilegious Sloth Mastodon has: Trunk & Tidbits, January 2026 FOSDEM 2026 Recap Thankfully Mastodon has picked up its game in the last year. Stefan Bohacek created a: Bridgy Fed bookmarklet for Mastodon Back to top 👆🏼 More The Register reports: Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty Fabio Manganiello prepares: Webmentions with batteries included Absolutely awesome. RSS NetNewWire reports: NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS Other Slightly Federated Social Media Roost announces: Meet Coop V.0 A New Social announces: Launch: Interact with Unbridged Replies & Mentions eMail / Newsletters Tuta shows us: How to disable Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, & Google apps. Opt out of AI tracking now! Ghost updates: Welcome emails CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) This what I mean when I encourage you to join the Open Media Network. 😈 Melanie Cat purrs: Oh nice social media account, did your Zuckerberg give it to you? Aww, how cute. Now grow the fuck up and get your own fucking website. Make a Fucking Website I am pretty sure she is a black cat. IYKYK 🐈‍⬛ Open Media Network Site CMSs Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki looks at: The Weight of the Good Days We love you Jannis. Keep at it. TechDirt reports: Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake WordPress Make WordPress has: WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is now available Call for Testing – Customizable Navigation (“Mobile”) Overlays Anne McCarthy is: Exploring work in progress for WordPress 7.0 HeroPress explains: How Art School Led Me To Web Design Great DIY story. FAIR shares its: 2025 FAIR Recap Varun Dubey explores: Gutenberg Blocks in 2026: WordPress Development in the AI Era The Repository reports: WP Engine Launches Newsroom, a Publishing Platform Built on Big Bite’s Newsroom Expertise Ghost Magic Pages shares a: Post-Mortem on 29 January 2026 Outage Drupal CMS Drupal has: Inside Drupal CMS 2.0: Q&A with Product Owner Pam Barone Drupalize Me announces: Release Day: The Drupal Recipes API Back to top 👆🏼 Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools Hamish Campbell examines: The uncomfortable path Collabra announces: A Faster Friendlier Collabora Online – Part III Rebel Tech Alliance looks at: The Big Tech Walkout 2026 Framasoft has: Retravaillez vos PDFs sans crainte Chat Signal announces: Signal Desktop now available in the Microsoft Store Zulip announces: Zulip Server 11.5 security release Browsers Adam Varn says: I just want a browser TechCrunch reports: Firefox will soon let you block all of of its generative AI features Or better yet, use Zen, LibreWolf, or Waterfox. Speaking of, LibreWolf announces: LibreWolf bsys6 Release v147.0.3-2 Cloud Nextcloud has: Top 10 easy sharing tips with your SharePoint alternative: Nextcloud Files A new data access architecture for Nextcloud: introducing the ADA engine Nextcloud recognized as a Digital Public Good Writing LibreOffice announces: LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control I put this here because they have improved markdown support, which is great. Creative Linuxiac reports: Kdenlive 25.12.1 Brings Welcome Screen Polishing and Audio Fixes Linux The Linux Foundation Europe shares: Linux Foundation Europe 2025: Milestones, Momentum, and What’s Next The Linux Journal looks: Inside the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG): A New Layer of Kernel Integrity Protection This week’s featured OMN tool Want to publish something like a fanzine? Check out Scribus: Scribus is the go-to Libre Desktop Publishing Application. Scribus POST AS HTML Back to top 👆🏼 OMN Programming Derick Rethans shares: FOSDEM 2026 Reflections 404 Media reports: Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue HTML Mike Matuzović has an: Introduction to the new HTML element Frontend Masters demonstrates: Performance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript CSS Tricks has: I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way Evil Martians updates a classic: How to Favicon in 2026: Three files that fit most needs One to bookmark. CSS Smashing Magazine explores: Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts Groundworx says: Stop Fighting Your Layouts: The Real Power of CSS Grid Web Components Heydon Works shows us: How To Dynamically Install Custom Elements AI Internet Exchange reports on: Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries Other OpenProject shows us: How to work with project templates Linuxiac reports: Forgejo 14.0 Arrives With New Web Editor, Smarter Search DDEV announces: Release Notes for XWiki 17.4.9 XWiki announces: Release Notes for XWiki 17.4.9 This week’s featured programming tool HTML, master it. HTML is for people Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub ActivityPub for WordPress has: 7.9.0 — Spring Cleaning Swentel works on the: ActivityPub module for Drupal NodeBB shares: FEP-4f05: Soft Deletion This is interesting. This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Book Written by Evan Prodromou, the coauthor of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format, this is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs. I have it and am slowly reading it. Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse The Guardian shares: How the left can win back the internet – and rise again He’s right about competition among the left, but perhaps this fucker has never heard of the Fediverse. Hamish Campbell explains: How our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing InterLedger announces: Interledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media Speaking of, the Social Web Foundation shares its: EU Open Source Policy Feedback Stefan Bohacek provides: Fediverse: An overview for community organizers IFTAS shares: IFTAS Response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence “Towards European open digital ecosystems” Castopod is: Introducing the Castopod Installation Script Bonfire Elixir has: Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months This week’s featured Fediverse Platform/Tool/Resource There was a rare Castopod article so let’s feature it. Castopod is an open-source server made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience. Castopod Back to top 👆🏼 More Other Slightly Federated Social Media Blacksky announces: Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash Stefan Bohacek reports: Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS Anuj Ahooja examines: The Everything Account eMail Newsletters Tuta looks at: DeGoogle list with best private alternatives | 2026 Buttondown announces: Public descriptions for tags CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) The original article is in French, but I am summarizing in the English translation. Anyway, this is what we are up against. And we’re definitely the underdog. 👿 Ploum writes: For decades, I have been one of those people trying to alert you to the terrifying possibilities of technological blindness in which we are immersed. I thought I had to explain, inform again and again. I discover with dread that even those who understand what I am saying do not act. Even act in the opposite direction. Trump’s voters, for the most part, know very well what is going to happen. Artists defend Facebook and Spotify. The most left-wing politicians remain hooked on X as their only window to the world. Yet they are warned! It’s just that they think they’re not concerned. It’s just that we naively think that it only happens to others. Whether we are, in one way or another, among those who will be privileged. Don’t come and say you weren’t warned Hamish Campbell writes: A cohesive manifesto is needed as the world we inherited is fractured. Wealth, power, and knowledge are concentrated in the hands of the #nastyfew: platform owners, data hoarders, and corporate monopolies who extract value from our work, our attention, and our trust. Democracy has been hollowed out, captured and controlled by algorithms that decide what is knowable, profitable, and even true. Ecology, community, and care are sacrificed on the #deathcult altar of growth and consumption. In this mess, the Open Media Network (#OMN) is a #KISS project that exists to reclaim the digital commons, reshape society, and redefine what is possible when power, knowledge, and technology are returned to the people. Open Media Network: A Manifesto for the Digital Commons This is how we can win. 😈 Open Media Network Site CMSs The Torment Nexus explains: Why blogging is better than social media Great, great stuff. This is something we could have written. 😉 WordPress WordPress.com is: Introducing the Enhanced Code Block: Syntax Highlighting and More WordPress.org announces: A New Home for WordPress Education Programs Developer WordPress has: Streamlining block theme development with WordPress Playground and GitHub This moves WP more toward DIY development for non-developers. Make WordPress has: What’s new in Gutenberg 22.4? (20 January) Announcing the WordPress 7.0 Release Squad Recap: WordPress 6.9 “Gene” Retrospective The Repository reports: WordPress 6.9.1 Scheduled for Early February as Bug Scrubs Begin Ghost Ghost has: Filters for traffic analytics MagicPages has: What’s coming in 2026 Fighting Ghost Magic Link Spam (and Rethinking My CDN) Updating 1,200 Ghost Sites Ghost og:image Not Showing? Check Your Privacy Settings Drupal CMS Dripyard has a great debugging example: How an unclosed < em > broke Drupal’s JavaScript Grav CMS Grav has a: Cookbook with Recipes for solving common problems Write.as Inferno shares: Sobre escribir blogs Back to top ⬆️ Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools Organic Maps shares: Higher-contrast dark theme colors, parking, rental, and charging capacity, and more in the January 2026 release XWiki announces: Release Notes for XWiki 18.0.0-rc-1 Chat Signal announces: Signal is working on sending view-once photos and videos from Signal Desktop Ploum explains: Why there’s no European Google? Browsers Pale Moon announces: v34.0.0 (2026-01-20) Cloud Internet Exchange says: What Do We Want? To Stop Using Google Docs. Great case study. Nextcloud announces: A new chapter for digital autonomy: The Nextcloud Special Event with the Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter release Creative Speaking of creative, Chris Kirknielsen designed: A no-AI icon for humans to use There is a code block at the bottom of this post with Markdown and HTML code to link to the SVG on Chris’s site. Rep. Ro Khanna: Introduces Resolution to Protect Creators in the Modern Platform-based Economy It will go nowhere, but its a nice start. Krita has its: Monthly Report – January 2026 Programming Humor shares: This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp Linux Linux Journal reports: Zorin OS 18 Crosses 2 Million Downloads, Cementing Its Appeal to New Linux Users F-Droid has: Three hundred reasons in two weeks Wow. That’s a lot of news. 😉 5 years of UnifiedPush David Heidelberg explains: Why I Will No Longer Contribute to postmarketOS Drama. TechGlow reviews: The Jolla Phone Proved We’ve Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along Murena announces: e/OS 3.4 version available for Official or Community builds Hosting / Serving Speaking of hosting, I moved all my sites from U.S.-based, A2 Hosting (who I never had a problem with) to Iceland-based, 1984 Hosting. Which is a great name. The host I use for this site made a great decision: A Small Change Behind the Scenes: EUR-Based Pricing Kinsta asks: What happens when one site gets hacked on shared hosting? cPanel announces: cPanel & WHM version 126 Good news about the HTML editor. This week’s featured OMN tool Framatoolbox Using Framatoolbox is the first step on the road to your digital autonomy. Back to top ⬆️ OMN Programming Dries Buyaert explores: Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty This times 100. CSS Tricks examines the: HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac HTML Google announces: Introducing the HTML element Smashing Mag looks at: Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design HTMX HTMX has a case-study: Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics CSS Frontend Masters reports: Firefox Goes CSS Modules Web Components JavaScript jQuery announces: jQuery 4.0.0 Nice. ESLint announces: ESLint’s 2025 year in review It now lints CSS and HTML as well as Markdown, JSON, and of course JavaScript. AI Hamish Campbell says: There is no intelligence in AI – and no path to any Platformer explores: The AI productivity paradox The Guardian and Cory Doctorow share: AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage TechPolicy Press reports: AI Agents are Rewriting the Web’s Rules of Engagement. Here’s a Way to Fix it. 404 Media reports: How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI Other Nothing stood out here this week. This week’s featured programming tool HTMX HTMX allows access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and SSE directly in HTML. Back to top ⬆️ ActivityPub Nothing this week. 🙁 This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool The name is self-explanatory. ActivityPub Academy Back to top ⬆️ Fediverse Hamish Campbell shares: Europe, the Fediverse, and the story we failed to tell These are the types of things that may have led the W project to choose ATProto over ActivityPub. IFTAS examines: Behind the Numbers: Who Moderates the Social Web? Vernissage announces: [Vernissage 1.29.0 is out!]https://mastodon.social/@vernissage/115914983027268250 It is PixelFed for professional photographers. Nation Cymru reports: Welsh social network launches campaign inspired by Dewi Sant Sandra De Jong asks: Hoe wordt Mastodon jouw plek? (als mens en als ondernemer) – Een stappenplan GoToSocial has: An update Bonfire Bonfire announces: Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum Thanks to the Bonfire for mentioning my article, Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform. Ozoned shares: Light Up the Net: Step‑by‑Step Bonfire Installation I will definitely be checking this out. This week’s featured Fediverse Platform/Tool/Resource Mbin (successor to Kbin) is a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion, and microblogging platform. Back to top ⬆️ More Matrix has: This Week in Matrix 2026-01-16 Other Slightly Federated Social Media 9 to 5 Mac reports: Threads will start showing ads to all users next week Threads started as shit and will always be shit. A New Social announces: Launch: Domain Blocklists A better response to Bluesky’s becoming a Nazi bar is to make BridgyFed compatible with Blacksky, Northsky, Pinksky, etc. I ran across this earlier this week: Modal Foundation Free Our Feeds has more: Free Our Feeds – Update #7, January 2026 We have to keep our eyes on this to make sure it goes the way it should. ATProto Community has: Erin Kissane: People In Protocols, a Research Update Nick Gerakines: Smoke Signal, a journey in building open ecosystems for communities Well, Bluesky has decided which side of the fascism fence it’s on, so it’s more important than ever for non-bluesky devs to build non-bluesky ATProto projects. Like: W for ATProto And I never had much hope for Bluesky (it was doomed to enshittification from the start), but it’s off The Fulcrum’s Ghost site now. eMail Newsletters Buttondown has: Ask a Nerd: What are good open, click, and response rates for an email newsletter? CTAs That’s it for this week. 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Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each...","publishedAt":"2026-01-26T19:23:00.000Z","textContent":"$55","theme":"$undefined","preferences":"$undefined"},"uri":"at://did:plc:ztjsajckkmfscs3tshez4ath/site.standard.document/3mo3zxk4km5xd","sort_date":"2026-01-26T19:23:00+00:00"}}] 56:T232b,This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) These do not fit into a category so I am sharing them here. TechCrunch reports: The team is small, inventory isn’t being manufactured before it’s sold, and there’s no outside funding. Pebble founder says his new company is ‘not a startup’ If you are going to build a hardware for opensource company, this is a good way to do it. CSID shows us: How to Build an Organic Community… Inorganically Open Media Network Site CMSs WordPress WordPress has: What’s new for developers? (January 2026) Good work on responsive grids. Dropping support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3. WordPress Playground Brings Speed, Stability, and Momentum The Blueprints Gallery is a great resource. The Repository reports: WordPress 7.0 Planning Continues With Call for Release Squad Volunteers Misunderstandings Over AI Use Fuel Confusion Around WordPress.org Plugin Reviews Rich Tabor explains: Giving my blog a voice A legitimate use for AI at least. Ghost Progressier shows us how to: Turn your Ghost Website into a PWA Interesting if you have a large site. FreeCodeCamp has this course: How to Build a Custom Ghost CMS Theme Synaps Media demonstrates: How to create tables in Ghost? Useful. Drupal CMS While these don’t relate directly to DrupalCMS, this is a big week for Drupal. Founder Dries Buyaert shares: 25 years of Drupal: what I’ve learned See lessons 2, 11, 14, and 21. Drupal has: Drupal Turns 25 Today My Drupal buddy, Carlos Ospina shares: I Wanted to Celebrate Drupal’s 25th. So I Built Something for Our Moms. Building local and very targeted niche sites can be a legitimate use for AI. I guess Claude is one of the best of a shitty bunch of assistants. The Drupal community seems to like it. Micro.blog Jarrod Blundy notes: Micro.blog offers an indie alternative to YouTube with its ‘Studio’ video hosting plan Back to top ⬆️ Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools Hamish Campbell has: Software licenses and the geekproblem Anil Dash looks at: Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be Chat Philipe Baez shows us: How to deploy a Chatmail server Browsers This is a fantastic little service! Just the Browser Cloud I’m going a little further back in time for this one: A brave year for digital sovereignty: Nextcloud 2025 Wrap-Up Writing Joplin announces: Joplin 3.5 Scribus announces: Scribus 1.7.2 Released Creative How to Geek reports: Latest KDE release includes great updates for Kdenlive and KDE Connect Kdenlive has all the details: Kdenlive 25.12.1 released Linux Linux Journal reports: Linux Kernel 6.19-rc4 Released as Development Marches On Linux Mint announces: Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” released! Graphene OS announces: A new set of Releases Sailfish OS shares: Sailfish Community News, 8th January 2026 – New Year Hosting / Serving cPanel announces: cPanel & WHM version 134 Elena Rossini continues a superb series: A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud Cloudflare asks: What came first: the CNAME or the A record? This week’s featured OMN tool My final paid project was a large video series, so I am featuring Trelby. It’s a free, multiplatform, feature-rich screenwriting program! Back to top ⬆️ OMN Programming Infoworld explores: 6 incredibly hyped (AKA horseshit) software trends that failed to deliver. Let’s drive these failures all the way out of existence. Julia Evans examines: A data model for Git (and other docs updates) Markdown Anil Dash explains: How Markdown took over the world An inspiring example of building a tool for a community and the tool then taking over a world. HTML Terence Eden looks at: Maximally Semantic Structure for a Blog Post Thomas Steiner shares: A polyfill for the HTML switch element Cool. HTMHell advises: Replacing JS with just HTML Swallow this advice hook, line, and sinker. HTMX Mahdi M. explains: Why You Should Give HTMX a Shot He also linked out to this resource. Hypermedia Systems CSS Dave Rupert explores: Focus rings with nested contrast-color()? CSS Tricks examines: Playing With CodePen slideVars W3 Tutorials aks: What’s the Difference Between Putting CSS Files in vs. ? Key Impacts Explained WebKit announces: New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes Manuel Matuzović shares: Better defaults for popovers Great tip. Web Components ZeroHeight lists: 5 accessibility checks to run on every component Florian Geierstanger has: The Missing Link for Web Components JavaScript Navanath Jadhav has: I Converted My React App to Vanilla JavaScript — Here’s What Happened A fantastic K.I.S.S. example. AI The Register reports: Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows Nice and a great example of Techno Anarchism. AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them This is awesome and I added it to my sites. Most devs don’t trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway Please don’t be that person. If you have to use it be this one. The New Stack reports: The Key to Agentic Success? BASH Is All You Need Other XWiki announces: XWiki and Cryptpad communities meetup at FOSDEM 2026 Forgejo announces: Forgejo v14.0 is available And OpenProject announces: OpenProject 17.0.0 This week’s featured programming tool Speaking of OpenProject is open source project management software. Back to top ⬆️ ActivityPub The Social Web Foundation announces: New Social Web Working Group at W3C Connected Places looks at the consequences: Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance Smarter Articles explores: Interoperability or Isolation: The Standards Battle Shaping Social Media Interesting, though long. ActivityPub for WordPress has: WordPress Federation: Recap of 2025 On a related note, Alex Masters examines: ActivityPub Gremlins Larvitz provides: Mastodon on FreeBSD: Production-Grade Service Scripts This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool Social Docs is the comprehensive developer resource for ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the Fediverse. Back to top ⬆️ Fediverse Maho Pacheco looks at: The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters TootWales announces: Less Clutter, More Cwtch: Introducing the Tŵt App Renaissance Design opines on it: Vendor lock-in is hostile to the Fediverse Social Media Alternatives shares: Teaching Mastodon: Ethics, Moderation, and the Work of Participation Jaz-Micael King has: There Is One Fediverse. There Are A Thousand Ways To Join It. Another fantastic example of an open social/open media network/community project. If you could do this with a Bonfire instance it would be incredible. Bonfire Bonfire has a case study: Gifting with Integrity: Federated Digital Spaces for Mutual Aid Networks This week’s featured Fediverse Platform/Tool/Resource Mobilizon helps online platforms to create, share and find events. Back to top ⬆️ More Other Slightly Federated Social Media A Cloud Nihilist explores: A Model for addressing privacy on ATproto Just FYI, whatever Blacksky and Northsky are doing is 10,000 times more important than whatever the fuck Bluesky is doing. ATProto Community has: Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data Marc Faddoul: Developing the AT infra ecosystem and governance Devin Ivy: The Shape of Apps to Come eMail Newsletters Ghost examines: Email clipping warnings Buttondown announces: Announcement bars for your archives CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) First, we are featuring our debut article published on The Fulcrum this week. We write: It’s our view that Bonfire not only has the potential to revolutionize the Fediverse and Open Social Media but the internet as well. With it we can create digital spaces we fully control. There is no need to tolerate billionaires, algorithms, or enshittification. We, the individual citizens of the world can shape our own open social web. Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform Be sure to read it because IMHO Bonfire is one of the most important platforms we cover here. Anil Dash writes: It can be easy to feel overwhelmed at such an unprecedented time in the industry, especially when there’s so much change happening. But there are concrete actions you can take to have agency over your own career, and to insulate yourself from the bad actors and maximize your own opportunities — even if some of those bad actors are your own bosses. How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? My unsolicited advice is to still treat AI like the horseshit 95% of it is, but work in the governmental, non-profit, or small business areas. Fuck big tech and tech bro startups. Open Media Network Website CMSs Kevin Blades is back with: The New Digital Counter-Culture Denis Petitclerc has: Votre formulaire contact marche bien ou pas WordPress WordPress has: How to Build an Interactive WordPress Theme Demo with Playground Blueprints A Year in the Plugins Team – 2025 How to Choose WordPress Hosting: A Guide for Any Skill Level Be Accessible shows us: How to Make Your WordPress Website Accessible And Drazin Bebic shows us: How to Add Settings Pages to WordPress Plugins: A Developer’s Guide WordPress plugins are important. Just look at ActivityPub. But lets minimize our use of them. Haurand shares: Block Theme: Template-Teil in Template einfügen FAIR announces: Discover, trust, install: FAIR 1.0 is here Give explores: Fundraising on WordPress: the complete guide for nonprofits Ghost MagicPages has: Enhanced Security Layer with CrowdSec WAF Ghost Redirects Not Working? Here’s Why (And How to Fix It) Cathy Sarisky examines: Abusing the split helper for “short codes” in Ghost Synthetic Horizons shows us how to: Deploy Ghost on Scaleway Serverless Containers: A Production-Grade, Stateless Deployment Guide Lochy announces: Private RSS for paid newsletters It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Drupal CMS Florida DrupalCamp promotes: The state of JavaScript Code Components in Drupal Canvas Be sure to watch this when the audio and slides are released. Unless you are one of the lucky few attending the camp. Grav CMS I didn’t come across anything this week on GravCMS. So, I’m sharing this previous article of mine. Building a Simple Grav CMS Theme with Twig, PHP, and CSS Micro.blog Manton Reece explains: Why Micro.blog uses Markdown I am thinking of starting an experimental Micro.blog site. Back to top ⬆️ Techno Anarchist and OMN Tools Signal reports: Signal massively downloaded amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark Framasoft looks at: Les Accords du Lion d’Or, un tiers-lieu à dimension culturelle en cours de dégafamisation Great case study. CoMaps shows us: How CoMaps focuses on Privacy Browsers Alternative To shares: Our honest take on the best Firefox-based web browsers for top privacy and customization I use Zen, Librewolf, and Waterfox personally. Cloud Nextcloud has: Four reasons to consolidate collaboration for your online workspace Writing It’s FOSS has: I Thought this Wikipedia App for Linux was Pointless (I Was Wrong) Linux PostmarketOS reports: postmarketOS Tweaks integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings DistroWatch has its latest: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1154, 5 January 2025 This week’s featured OMN tool Web Components is a suite of different technologies allowing you to create reusable custom elements — with their functionality encapsulated away from the rest of your code — and utilize them in your web apps. Web Components Be sure to read the great article from LogRocket below.Back to top ⬆️ OMN Programming Hamish Campbell says: We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency Lionel Dricot explores: How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem A little dramatic. But still, no GitHub peeps. Cory Doctorow shares: Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) Absolutely. Uwe Friedrichsen has: We default to addition This is about IT. But, it also applies to programming. K.I.S.S. HTML W3Tutorials asks: Single vs Double Quotes in HTML: Difference, Best Practices & Should You Use Them to Distinguish Handwritten vs Generated Code? SelfHTML says: SELFHTML hält sich an Webstandards! HTMX Del Rosario explains: HTMX in 2026: Why Hypermedia is Dominating the Modern Web This seems to be a good explainer. Personally, I would stay away from the AI recommendations. CSS Adam Argyle explores: 4 CSS Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026 FrontendMasters shows us: How to @scope CSS Now That It’s Baseline Cool. Popover Context Menus with Anchor Positioning CSS Tricks examines: superellipse() This will be really cool, once it’s baseline. Kristoff Zerbe looks at: ChartsCSS – Without a single line of JavaScript JavaScript GNU Operating System explores: Setting Your JavaScript Free Or just use all vanilla JS and not have to worry about it. Speaking of, LogRocket has this fantastic article: Anti-frameworkism: Choosing native web APIs over frameworks Other I ran across this: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem This week’s featured programming tool Pear is an installable Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Runtime, Development & Deployment platform. Build, share & extend unstoppable, zero-infrastructure P2P applications for Mobile, Desktop & Terminal. PearsBack to top ⬆️ ActivityPub Alex Masters looks at: Self-Hosting my Social Media Profile using WordPress and ActivityPub This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Academy is a learning resource for ActivityPub. The protocol is brought to life by showing Activities sent between different instances in real time! ActivityPub Academy Back to top ⬆️ Fediverse IFTAS announces: The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Report Is Here NodeBB announces: Cross-posting is coming to NodeBB! Jonathan Kamens looks at: The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data Very nice WordPress site, Jonathan. Michael Thomas demonstrates: Adding Plausible to Mastodon Using nginx sub_filter Bonfire This week’s featured Fediverse Platform/Tool/Resource NodeBB aims to be a better forum platform for the modern web. NodeBBBack to top ⬆️ More Fabio Manganiello has: Webmentions are an often forgotten W3C recommendation Webmentions implementation on Madblog Matrix has: This Week in Matrix 2026-01-05 Sharing a safety tool: announcing policyserv RSS On Discourse, Arya K. says: RSS feeder auto-discovery can miss topic-specific feeds Robert Alexander reviews: RSS feed discovery with FeedLand Other Slightly Federated Social Media Bridgy Fed announces: We’ve been busy working on new features, internal improvements, bug fixes, and exploring new networks Friends, you should also learn what a H1 header is and use it. Speaking of Bridgy Fed, ATProto Community has: Anuj Ahooja: Bridges, The Last Network Effect And: Ms Boba: Yearning for the Open Protocols Phil: Small Scale ATproto Democracy Tech The Institute of Development Studies shares: Voice or Chatter? Case Studies decidim.barcelona, Spain eMail Tabular lists: 10 Substack Alternatives That Will Increase Your Revenue Today I would say reach instead of revenue and recommend Ghost or Beehive. Fuck Substack. CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb. The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend. There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Hamish Campbell writes: Historically, real social change doesn’t arrive by waiting for collapse. It arrives because people are active, they build alternatives in advance, strong enough to bridge the mess when existing systems fail and lose legitimacy. This isn’t theory. It’s how change has always happened. If you are interested in a better outcome, we need to remember, build first, collapse later is the lesson that we keep forgetting. You don’t wait for the crash, you prepare, are ready to catch people when it comes. Building, what comes next? Cory Doctorow writes: …after decades of throwing myself against a locked door, the door that leads to a new, good internet, one that delivers both the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 that let our normie friends join the party, that door has been unlocked. Today, it is open a crack. It’s open a crack! A post-American Internet is possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to join the fight on our side. My thesis here is that this is an unstoppable coalition. Which is good news! For the first time in decades, victory is in our grasp. The Post-American Internet Let’s start building friends. 🙂 Open Media Network Website CMSs Joan Westenberg makes: The Case for Blogging in the Ruins WordPress Make WordPress has: Gutenberg 22.3 Word Switcher: Extending Core Blocks with Interactivity WordPress.com has: [How to Manage Multiple Client Sites with WordPress Studio](https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/12/17/how-to-manage-multiple-client-sites/) Or just your own. Kinsta has: How to create magic effects in WordPress with core blocks The WordPress Block Bindings API: What it is and how to use it to build dynamic websites Very detailed. Willian Rodrigues shows us how to: Configurando um Ambiente de Desenvolvimento WordPress com DDEV (Docker) — rápido, padronizado e sem dor de cabeça Ghost Panos Tsamoudakis is: Reflecting on the year and building for the next Hostinger shows us: How to install and use Ghost CMS on Ubuntu On a related note, Sasha Corti has: Running Ghost CMS with Docker, Tinybird Analytics, ActivityPub and a Clean nginx + Caddy Split Publishing to the Open Social Web with Ghost (ActivityPub Explained) DXEN explores: Home Web Server Ep 4.2 — Cloudflare Access and Google SMTP Setup for Ghost MagicPages explains: Why ALIAS Records Can Cause Problems with Your Custom Domain Drupal CMS LostCarPark shares: Drupal CMS now and beyond David Duymelinck has: Drupal: exploring Canvas (part 1) Drupal: Exploring Canvas (part 2) Dripyard announces: Dripyard’s Drupal Canvas Webinar Recording Is Live Great stuff even if it’s on YouTube. Grav CMS Grav examines: Twig Tags Back to top ⬆️ Techno Anarchist and OMN Tools F-Droid announces: A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here! Framasoft has: Framasoft en chiffres, édition 2025 FramaPDF : modifiez, manipulez, signez vos PDF simplement Servo shares: November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more! Writing Zettlr announces: Zettlr 4.0 Released This looks great. Scribus announces: Scribus 1.7.1 Released Creative Kdenlive announces: Kdenlive 25.12.0 released Make Use Of reports: This photo-editing app is so good, I finally stopped using Lightroom GIMP announces: GIMP 3.2 RC2: Second Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2 9 to 5 Linux reports: Inkscape 1.4.3 Open-Source SVG Editor Improves PDF Import and Text on Path Krita announces: Krita Monthly Update – Edition 33 Linux Linux on Mobile has a: 2025: Year in Review PostmarketOS looks at: Getting sustainable work done in postmarketOS thanks to your donations AHoneyBun provides: A 2025 review of Mobile Linux with postmarketOS v25.12 Zorin OS announces: Our Gift to the Open Source Ecosystem this Holiday Season Tugaleres shares: Début de l’aventure Murena avec le Fairphone 6 sous /e/OS e/OS has: Leaving Apple & Google: Wrapping up the year 2025 with /e/OS and Murena “AI” Hamish Campbell explores: LLM`s and the openweb This Symfony Station article has the gist of my opinion on “AI” use: [Is there an ethical AI stack for Web Development?](https://symfonystation.mobileatom.net/original-articles/ethical-ai-stack) NV Digital Solutions sends: A thank you to WordPress, open source – and a little thing I’ve been building The Ollama route is the best option here. This week’s featured OMN tool Since I will use it every week to write posts, I thought I would start with Joplin. It is an open source note-taking app that uses markdown and is compatible with HTML. So, it’s perfect for pasting directly into Content Management Systems’ editors. Capture your thoughts and access them from any device via its cloud offering. Joplin Back to top ⬆️ OMN Programming Paul Allies shares: The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web 1000x this and not just for Africa! This is the K.I.S.S. approach we advocate. Open Project has: Looking back: OpenProject in 2025 xWiki has: Release Notes for XWiki 17.10.2 Joan Westenberg promotes: The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer Preach, sister. The Linux Foundation has: Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams Version Control Is Not Just for Code Good stuff from my Drupal peep, AmyJune. HTML That HTML Blog says: The Web Platform is a Triumph of Object-Oriented Programming Yep. HTMHell advocates: Replacing JS with just HTML Just do it. 😉 And see ⬇️. Robodobdob examines: Native HTML modals with HTMX and Dialog Zero Height shows us: How to annotate design system components for accessibility CSS CSS Tricks says: text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations Frontend Masters looks at: !important and CSS Custom Properties WebKit has: Introducing CSS Grid Lanes JavaScript Tyronne Ratcliff shares: The “this” Mystery Solved: A No-Nonsense Guide to JavaScript’s Most Confusing Keyword It certainly bedeviled me over the years. Balaji Bal explores: Getting Started with HTMX: Your Journey to Simpler Web Development Should I cover HTMX in addition to Vanilla JavaScript? HTML and CSS are doing more and more. But for those of you that use it, is HTMX easier than going the vanilla or web component route when you need something extra custom? I’m leaning toward it. Feel free to give your input in the comment section below. The New Stack reports: Web Components are the comeback nobody saw coming 🙂 Planet Performance explores: The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs Reason 48,407 React sucks and more on the worthlessness of 99% of SPAs. K.I.S.S. my friends. Other Elena Rossini has a series: A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup I will be moving my sites to European hosting. Currently, I am looking at Uber Host, 1984 Hosting, and YunoHost. If you have any input please let me know via the Fediverse or in the comments below. Elena inspired me to buy a book on self-hosting BTW. 😁 This week’s featured programming tool Codeberg is a community-led effort that provides Git hosting for free/open source projects. Codeberg Back to top ⬆️ ActivityPub Island in the Net announces: WordPress Cornerstone Theme 1.1.0: Fediverse Avatars Now Display Properly Marius looks at: REPL Ideas for GoActivityPub To be honest, I’m not following most of this. ??? But, maybe you will. DeadSuperHerson says: Ghost’s ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked I feel the same way. And it’s why I am running a backup of The Programmer’s Fulcrum on WordPress to keep Ghost honest. We’ll see where TPF ends up in 2027. This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPubFuzzer is a small program to help build social media software on the Fediverse. It emulates known Fediverse software, helping solve the problem where developers have to manually test compatibility with dozens of other projects. ActivityPubFuzzer Back to top ⬆️ Fediverse Tim Chambres shares: My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions Stefano Marinelli shows us: FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands This is what we are talking about when we sign off with “And please build something for a community!” Framasoft has: [Publiez vos vidéos avec PeerTube sur mobile!](https://framablog.org/2025/12/16/publiez-vos-videos-avec-peertube-sur-mobile/) Holos Social announces: Custom domain support for Holos is in development and coming along nicely! Bandwagon.fm has an update: December 2025: hooo boy! Speaking of tunes, The Indie Beat Television says: Welcome to The Indie Beat Television The Fediverse’s MTV has landed. The Elder Logs is: Taking on the Mammoth Is there a Fediverse alternative to LinkedIn in the works? FediWork Bonfire I plan on exploring Bonfire personally and featuring it extensively here on The Fulcrum. So, let’s take a quick look at it. “Bonfire is open, community-first social infrastructure. A digital commons where people gather, co-create, and care together.” While Big Tech centralizes for profit and blockchain prizes sovereignty over solidarity, both leave collective care and real community needs behind. They erase communities in the race to scale. They turn social life into products that use, abuse, or extract from us. Bonfire offers a different path: trusted communities with real autonomy and participatory governance, interconnected across the open web. It empowers communities to shape digital spaces that reflect shared values, like autonomy, mutual care, and collective power. We design for communities, not abstract “users”. We focus on relationships, not engagement metrics. We’re building for the long haul, not for scale or profit.” I also plan to experiment with Bonfire and have taken notes for a series of articles. I have even reserved the domain manade.org to possibly run subdomains off of for various communities I am in. According to WikiPedia, a manade (prov. menada, originally from lat. manus = hand) is a term used in the Camargue area in France for a semi-wild herd of horses led by a gardian. Herd/community. Get it. This week’s featured Fediverse Platform/Tool/Resource Mbin is a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform. Mbin Back to top ⬆️ More Uncountable Thoughts explores: The IndieWeb in 2030 Matrix shares: The 2025 Matrix Holiday Special RSS Robert Alexander is: Discovering the IndieWeb with calm tech Fantastic. Peter Ries pursues: Reading news from non-RSS websites P2P Jack Perkins examines: Private Discovery in p2panda Other Slightly Federated Social Media Connected Places has: [ATmosphere Report 147 – Year’s end reflections](https://leaflet.connectedplaces.online/3mao4mpv35c22) ATProto Community has: Ændra Rininsland: Supporting and growing ATProto development in 2025 and beyond I am going to check Leaflet out. Tales of Adding oAuth Login with Bsky to an OS Rudy Fraser: Building Communities for the Decentralized Era Great, great, great stuff. Rudy is the North star of ATProto, not fucking Bluesky. Democracy Tech Decidim shares: 2025 in a wrap! By the way, ‘Decidim, from the Catalan “let’s decide” or “we decide”, is a digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, a digital platform, built entirely and collaboratively as free software. More specifically, Decidim is a web framework produced in Ruby on Rails that allows anybody to create and configure a web platform to be used as a political network for democratic participation.’ It would be great if Decidim could interoperate with Bonfire. Can Ruby and Elixr get along? Now there is a project for you. eMail Buttowndown asks: Ask a Nerd: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! 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