@newsmastNewsmast Foundation is working with 
@Bonfire as a backend as well for their solutions. It's great to see this implementation in progress, I had heard of it before. Curious if they are using the Community flavor.
From a Q&A: An important thing to note - as people try to find alternatives to large socials, it doesn't mean it HAS to be federated. Or perhaps just partially federated.
Newsmast is building according to the needs of their communities, and that doesn't always include federation.
There's a lot to say about local community instances. Not EVERYTHING needs to be federated.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/box464/statuses/116127351385878510 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)