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


Bonfire's mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.

There’s a decidedly disruptive bent to the software, which describes itself as a place where “all living beings thrive and communities flourish, free from private interest and capitalistic control.” In other words, its mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google. This puts the social software back under users’ control, instead of being subject to the whims of a platform maker with an ever-changing feature sets and algorithms.

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