More bonfire b...

2026-07-27 22:15:36

Hubzilla Support Forum

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citc wrote the following post Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:15:34 +0200

More bonfire b...

Hubzillians need to wake up and dispute the nonsense from bonfire fanboys.
https://social.coop/@dajb/116993697791418690

2026-07-28 00:31:48

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Hubzilla Support Forum What's wrong with it?

2026-07-28 13:49:03

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Ferret Bonfire is Hubzilla ordered from wish.com.

The only ones who are utterly impressed about Bonfire are those who don't know Hubzilla.

Those who have been daily-driving Hubzilla since the 2010s can only laugh about how pathetic Bonfire really is.

Bonfire promises a lot. But most of what Bonfire promises is only a promise and has yet to be implemented. Most of what is implemented appears to be barely functional.

At the same time, just about all of it is readily available as rock-solid stable features on Hubzilla. Right. Now. It usually has been since Hubzilla was launched, ten months before Mastodon was launched. Even Mistpark had some of it as early as May, 2010.

But Bonfire's propaganda claims that Bonfire is a pioneering software that's the first to invent all of this from scratch and the first to bring any of this into the Fediverse. And thousands of Mastodon users believe them because they don't know any better.

@Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ has actually tried Bonfire. I guess he can tell you a lot about his first-hand experiences. Or lack thereof.

2026-07-28 15:22:24

Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂

pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu

@Jupiter Rowland @Ferret

Since 2012: "Hubzilla, formerly Redmatrix, formerly red": Groups (forums) and tools for collaborative organisation

Schon seit 2012 „Hubzilla, formerly Redmatrix, formerly red": Gruppen (Foren) und Tools für die gemeinsame Organisation

😉

2026-07-28 19:22:51

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Jupiter Rowland Good to know. Maybe it's ass software, but if it isn't malicious I don't see the reason for tearing into it?

2026-07-28 21:04:51

Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂

pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu

@Ferret

Good to know. Maybe it's ass software, but if it isn't malicious I don't see the reason for tearing into it?

I’m not trying to slag this off at all; rather, I want to point out that all the features which Bonfire presents as new and of their own invention have actually been available for well over ten years in a very well-developed piece of software. Potential users should be aware of this and perhaps take a look at Hubzilla from this perspective, rather than waiting for a piece of software that promises a lot but is still a long way from being truly useful.

2026-07-28 06:24:58

NSOddity

nsohq@hub.hubzilla.de

8GB+ of RAM required to run your own server seems steep?