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A home for your field

curated by real experts.

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We use social media to follow our interests, but it hooks us and wastes our time. 

What if you could get the good stuff without the  noise ? 

Meet  campfire.
Communities for your interests where quality comes first. 

Get the slice of the web you care about.

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Camps for your interests

Conversations, ideas, and news for your field, hobby, team, neighborhood, and more.

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Reputation that rewards quality

Camp members curate the best posts, earning reputation that amplifies their voice and votes.

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Real people, real conversations

Everyone's verified as human, so you can make real connections without spam or bots.

Our vision for a social web that works

The social web is distracting us for profit.

The web was created to connect us. But today, social platforms are addictive tools that mine our attention. Apps like Instagram, X, and TikTok are draining our time and focus while they generate billions in ad revenue.

Campfire helps communities find what's worth their time.

Campfire is a platform for self-organizing communities: groups that automatically curate and moderate themselves to find what's worth your attention. Think friendly groupchats for your professional interests, hobbies, and fandoms, where the most interesting conversations rise to the top and members are rewarded for contributing.

We're bringing new technology to hard problems.

The systems powering Campfire include proof-of-humanity to prevent spam, a PageRank-inspired reputation layer to elevate experts, and topic grouping to help you find what's relevant.

We're growing the open social web. 🦋

Campfire is built on the open Authenticated Transfer Protocol. Users can sign in to Campfire with Bluesky accounts, control their own data, and see the best posts for their interests from Bluesky's 40 million users.

We're committed to respecting your attention.

We believe your time and attention are sacred. Campfire is funded without infinite-feed ads via subscriptions, donations, philanthropy, and data products.

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