I'll try to write about my experience here, both as a test and as a diary for future reference.
My first contact with #bonfire is that it ressembles a lot with #mastodon, so it feels like at home. My first task was to fill in my profile. It was a very straightforward and familiar process, but two subtlelties (not maybe not too subtle) got my attention: the possibility of linking my orcid and other profiles. That looks interesting!
⁂ Article
Linking ORCID
When I tried to link my orcid, I got an error. After reporting the issue in the matrix room, @mayel@bonfire.cafe and @ivan@bonfire.cafe almost immediately fixed the issue.
Once the issue was sorted, linking my orcid was as straightforward as with any other service using orcid. Not only that, but it populated my profile with very interesting data for #academics: a list of current and former institutions where I work/have worked, my most recent publication, the topics I write about and publication types.
I find this implementation to be very neat and useful for the use case of open science, so kudos to @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe for this great idea. I particularly love how the last publication is displayed, showing if it's open access, and links to the article and to the PDF version. Amazing! 🎉 (probably, I'd prefer to choose the publication I want to show there, but the last one is a good default criteria, so this is me being picky)
