very briefly, as I am on my phone now.

I've found the following issues about federation:

1. I've followed my bonfire account from a mastodon account. on mastodon I see the request is waiting for approval, but on bonfire I am not notified, nor I can see that request anywhere. that means that nobody from the fediverse can follow me!
2. posts look weird on mastodon

Now, about publishing content:

Again, publishing posts is quite straightforward. It has anything you'd expect:

1. I can write texts (not sure if there's a character limitation -I couldn't see that anywhere) and I can even use markdown syntax, use emojis, attach files, add content warnings... 🎉
2. When I upload images, I can easily write alt text
3. I can reply to posts
4. I can edit posts

Once I sent to "Post", I get a modal window (it was difficult for me to see, TBH, because it is displayed on the top of the window and not very prominently) confirming that the post has been published.

Once I like some #bonfire specific features here, such as changing how replies are sorted ❤️:

1. Replies can be shown as a thread of nested replies, or as a flat list
2. Additionally, replies can be sorted chronologically, reverse chronologically, by number of responses, latest reply... (see screenshot).

This is really cool, indeed! Following conversations on mastodon is difficult, and I feel/hope this can make this process easier.

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)