@ghard I tried that and it didn't succeed. In our local #BurningMan #art collective "Salon Leobard" we tried mattermost as self hosted chat/communication tool.

1. The signup needed people to go to the self hosted website and register. 2. The page was in English. These two were less convenient than Signal. It caused churn/effort. We lost people.

Same at our local association burners.at. We tried a discourse forum (not discord, mind the spelling). It was not inclusive enough.

The p2p self hosted stuff must be convenient for my mum & cousin Alice & Bob the artist. Same convenience as WhatsApp is expected.

When the FOSS/p2p system is as simple as commercial stuff, and when many people take new ones by the hand and guide them, it works.

It worked with Signal so far.

So let's cherish what we have - Signal - and work on convincing people to pay for it. That is energy well invested.

As seen written on the temple one year at Burning Man:

"STOP NOT DOING THAT!"
- Anon.

I’ve been collecting quotes for years. It’s time to stop not sharing them. 😁

Want to follow along? Follow me or the hashtag:
📣 #QuoteSharing

#stop #BurningMan #quote #quotes

@linos , @pfefferle do you have examples of interesting/ popular/ relevant wordpress event sites where ActivityPub Event Bridge is running?

I need some real-world samples to communicate the vision of federating events to my fellow #BurningMan community members in #Austria.

I am basing our new webpage for https://www.burners.at on @community . This is the Austrian #BurningMan page of the local chapter. The page is not public yet.

I use your stuff and GatherPress ... because you "told me" in a video that @alex recommended to me during dinner at #Vienna #WordCamp 2025

I am seeing a big opportunity here.

I **really** like Cool URIs as defined in https://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/ ...and I saw that (the suffix ?activitypub to wordpress URLs || content-negotiating) does give me ... very cool URIs.

That is a basis I trust to federate events of my community. We love participation and federation.

The Burning Man They DON'T Want YOU To See! (RARE FOOTAGE)

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/3vP5Zu9TipHJtRSDcqcazq

So how was Burning Man?

It was the hardest year yet. And great. The man burns in 368 days. )'( https://www.drcarlscamp.com/2025/09/03/build-build-it-again-and-again/ #burningman #brc2025

"They may as well have attached a sign to the thing saying HERE’S THE GENERIC UNIFYING ECSTATIC RITUAL YOU ORDERED."

@RationalizedInsanity #BurningMan folks circa 2000 in #SanFrancisco. It was quite a time!

ABC News: 2 months after a man was killed at Burning Man, experts say it will 'not be a quick solve'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-months-after-man-killed-burning-man-experts/story?id=126947515

#murder #BurningMan #crime

As I climbed onto my train, I wondered what the younger generation is doing these days to create visceral experiences. Are they going to #raves? Festivals?

I know #burningman still exists and so does #lalapolosza, but that seems so #corporate, so #safe.

There was danger in the things we did, and perhaps that's what made it so fun. The risk of consequences we never fully grasped at that young age.

#til: #BurningMan actively uses #Meshtastic as part of a community-driven initiative called Burning Mesh https://www.burningmesh.org/ #iot

Last week we went to Youtopia, which is the San Diego regional #BurningMan event. It was a ton of fun, on the grounds of a remote RV park way out in the scrublands near the Mexican border.

On the drive home, I learned something important: in a pickup truck pulling an 8000-pound trailer, emergency stops are _not_ an option. The freeway came to a quick halt, all my wheels locked up and I stopped with only inches to spare between us and the car in front of us. Terrifying.

Now this weekend ${SPOUSE} and I are nursing a case of Festival Crud that we picked up. Sinus and bronchial infections, locked in listening to The Doors and playing Stardew Valley together.

Still worth it.

@guyjantic same here my friend! I wish more #Burningman affiliated groups and ppl would join mastodon, it’s the perfect chill platform!

#Request for fediverse #recommendations -

I go to regional burns (#BurningMan - type events) in my USA region and the principal way of organizing and connecting people is #facebook. I do not love this. I have suggested my local burner groups create a parallel group or two here on #mastodon. I'm looking for

(a) Recommendations for a server to point people to (probably #mastodon but that's because Mastodon is all I know; I'm open to other ideas), and

(b) Pointers to how groups get done now that gup.pe is offline.

Notes:

• Local (above) means within a 2- to 5-state radius in the USA. Many people are hundreds of km (and miles) apart. Most people have no real chance of in-person meeting between burns.
• If it is possible to have both public and private forums (like on FB), that would be great; burners discuss things that happened at burns and, for a variety of reasons, many don't want those discussions visible to the wider universe (this need might be partly met with anonymous usernames, without truly private groups).
• Server recommendations: people with no #fediverse experience will be much more likely to make fediverse accounts and use them if I point them to a non-toxic, probably-functional-for-a-while server that would be a good fit, rather than just saying "Go find a server."
• Burners are pretty good fedizens already: they tend to be silly, friendly, and strongly social justice-oriented. Many are anarchists and burns are frequently described as temporary anarchist communities. Of course I immediately thought of beige.party, but I don't know a ton of servers. I have had good experiences with c.im, as well. I've heard some reasons not to send people to mastodon.social. Aaaaand I'm out of ideas.
• I'm not interested in running my own server. Years fighting with self-hosted services like nextcloud, limesurvey, and moodle have shown me I do not have the skills or time to maintain something like this. It's possible that, if enough burners come to the fediverse, someone with more skills and time might set up a server, but that is not on the horizon right now.
• The social aspect of social media is important here. I don't want to recommend lemmy; I think something that facilitates immediate interaction more smoothly would be better. If there's a recommendation to use services besides Mastodon, I think something with a lot of active users would be best, to make the newcomers understand at a gut level that they are in an active larger community. For that reason, I'm not as interested right now in a newer service that has few people and doesn't federate seamlessly with other services.
• I'm trying to avoid bluesky (for probably-obvious reasons). That's where I'm pretty sure some people will start recommending if the fediverse transition is too complicated or not "social-feeling" enough. All recommendations to leave corporate social media seem to gravitate toward bluesky recommendations, so I suspect those are going to happen, and I'd like for people to not feel a need to go anywhere but the fediverse.

Right now, probably because of my limited experience, I'm thinking #mastodon instead of #friendica (which seems less trafficked than mastodon... but IDK) or other fediverse platforms. I'm very open to other suggestions, recognizing my limited perspective.

Send me your suggestions for any of the following, if you have them:

• Mastodon servers to recommend for people who don't want or know how to search for one that fits them
• Different platforms besides Mastodon (if you think others would be better for this)
• Explainers for how groups work now (realizing I didn't really understand how they worked before gup.pe went down)
• Changing this entire plan if it seems misguided

#help #RegionalBurn #organize

@guyjantic I'm glad to have shared a forest with you this weekend, internet stranger. I searched #burningman, looking to connect with regional burners I could find in the Fediverse. Hi!

I think regional burns are keeping me alive

#burningman #burner

Michael Garfield – I Miss You And It's Okay: Live at Burning Man 2013
#BurningMan #Experimental #acousticguitar #ambient #chill #dinosaurs #fingerstyleguitar #guitar #happy #improv #live #liveelectronics #livelooping #postrock #psychedelic #sologuitar #SantaFe
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/i-miss-you-and-its-okay-live-at-burning-man-2013

Michael Garfield – Cosmic Perspectives From A Fractal Planet – Burning Man 2013
#BurningMan #Podcasts #consciousness #evolution #fractal #futurism #philosophy #podcast #psychedelic #science #transcendental #SantaFe
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://evolution.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-perspectives-from-a-fractal-planet-burning-man-2013

In 3 days I'm going to a burn. Those of you who have been to the "big burn" (#BurningMan) or a regional burn (my fave) know what this means. It's a bunch of stress to get ready, prepare my life to accommodate 4-5 days absent, and pack everything I need (radical self-reliance, folks!). It also means I will be in a place with no hierarchies, no bosses, no schedules, awesome music (until about 4 a.m.; I bring ear plugs these days), art everywhere, ridiculous whimsy, silly costumes, people trying to feed me, people open to conversation and meeting me, people making music, people dancing, people reciting poetry, people being weird and accommodating--even celebrating--the weirdness of others, and just... I think these are my people. I don't love all of them, but I love a hell of a lot of them, and loving them is my first instinct.

Where in the world are the joyful motherfuckers, though?
Fearless lovers though, rainbow shooters though?
Wild acceptors though, the hopeful sinners though?
Gentle teachers though, true forgivers?
Les courageuses, les amoureuses?
Les enfants braves? les grand-mères jeunes? les lumineuses?
- Allison Russell

I think a lot of them are going to be in a forest in Pennsylvania in a few days.

#RegionalBurn #JoyfulMotherfuckers #reset

How the largest #ArtCar at #2025BurningManPlaya came to #life https://zorz.it/SdCPV | #SaraBarnes #BurningMan #BlackRockDesert #LongFeng #ArtInstallations #performances #NorthwesternNevada

From Burning Man to Beclabito: Bikes get second chance at life on Rez #BurningMan https://www.nhonews.com/news/from-burning-man-to-beclabito-bikes-get-second-chance-at-life/article_0777a004-1a81-480d-82e4-2d938568e08a.html