From reading the 'about' page I understood that this is a new social media platform in the Fediverse.
Now there is obviously one question: why should I participate in this and not in the existing projects like Mastodon? Why did you split up?
I suggest the Bonfire people should put the answer to that question on the top of the 'about' page.
If Bonfire isn't compatible with Mastodon or Lemmy it doesn't fit into the former category.
(Anyone who's tried to implement ActivityPub knows it's a lie. You implement Mastodon Protocol or Lemmy Protocol. If you follow ActivityPub you'll be alone on your own new protocol)
Why using Bonfire? The first thing that comes up to me from the website is that this model of community-focused development seems more resilient to the wave of AI slop. A small Mastodon instance with 30-40 active people and limited federation would be useless. A Bonfire instance with the same people where you can work on community projects or scientific projects, sounds a lot more viable while keeping the shields up against the slop.
This is so true, I've had to put a timer on how much I can use it as I'm addicted like the old school reddit days
I think all it'll take is reddit messing up and lemmy.world might be the new front page of the internet
That permanently lost me from reddit, I tried kbin.social for as long as it was up and I really liked using it. I never really got on with lemmy for some reason. The outcome ended up being me just not using reddit like things, and I really don't miss it that much.