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Okay, sure, you could make an ultra-niche Fediverse app that has integration with a digital toothbrush or something, I'll give you that. If three people can productively use it I'm not sure that counts as a form of social media, though. I'd use a descriptor more like "add-on service". The "social" part means you need a certain number of bodies involved.
What's the deal with Bonfire? As far as I can tell it's microblogging with an emphasis on customisability.
Open source endpoints are great. I'm a big fan.
Edit: Oh hey! They have a blog post about that. So basically, it's another framework on top of ActivityPub. I like the sound of that. From their GitHub they currently integrate microblogging and some weird thing that I can only describe as socially distributed accounting.
they are also doing a whole flavor just for research-oriented social media, geared towards the OpenScience community and the academia in general. It will launch soon.
Then they have a whole set of collaboration tools and groupware, that now kinda incorporates the basic features of Trello and GitHub, but on top of a social media with granular permission systems. There the use cases are many more, but it's also much more general-purpose than the research flavor. I think the end-game would be to have a platform that acts as a middleware and connect social life, gift-based collaboration, work and consumption in a single open platforms.
I also wrote an article envisioning a federated notion-like tool built on top of Bonfire, that clearly would allow to structure knowledge and implement no-code software on top of Bonfire, but clearly this would require a disproportionate effort for what the project is at the moment: https://fossil-milk-962.notion.site/Fractal-Software-for-Fractal-Futures-71e515597d6b424c994cae74f3341521?pvs=4
That's actually really neat! I'm going to have to play around with Notion so I can tell what you're talking about.