Announcing Armada Stack
A full-stack implementation of the Concord Protocol that "just works"
vor 3 Wochen3 w ago4 Min.4 min
Alex Gleason
I create software that empowers people online. I'm vegan btw.
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NostrHub 2.0: A Meritocracy for Building Nostr Together
NostrHub 2.0 is a Nostr-native hub where developers build the protocol together. Not a democracy, not a dictatorship, but a configurable meritocracy curated by Nostr experts, with NIPs, a plan graph, apps, and git repos.
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago8 Min.8 min
Onchain Zaps in Ditto: Bitcoin Tipping Without Lightning
Ditto 2.12 ships an onchain Bitcoin wallet that uses Nostr keys as Bitcoin addresses. No Lightning, no setup — send Bitcoin tips to any Nostr user, immediately.
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago12 Min.12 min
Bluesky vs Nostr
Let's compare Bluesky and Nostr to see how they stack up.
vor 20 Mon.20 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Announcing Knox (Beta)
knox is a new Nostr bunker CLI for running a NIP-46 remote signer and granting credentials to members of your team.
vor 24 Mon.24 mo ago6 Min.6 min
Ditto 1.1
Last month we released Ditto, a powerful new server for building communities on Nostr. This new release adds major stability and performance improvements we discovered after it became adopted by the Nostr community.
vor 28 Mon.28 mo ago4 Min.4 min
Announcing Ditto
It has moderation. It has spam filters. It has NIP-05 self-service. It has quote posts, emoji reactions, and zaps. ⚡ The scope of this project is absolutely huge. It aims to take everything that's good about Mastodon and implement it on Nostr, with none of the downsides.
vor 29 Mon.29 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Intrinsic Limits of Nostr Filters
Improve performance of Nostr clients and relays by analyzing filters and limiting results.
vor 29 Mon.29 mo ago4 Min.4 min
Announcing Nostrify
Nostrify is a flexible library for building Nostr apps in TypeScript. It provides Relays, Signers, Storages, and more to help you build your app.
vor 31 Mon.31 mo ago2 Min.2 min
Hate
Karma is not a mystical force. It's the idea that people will create their own demise through their own downward spiral. "Karma" is not something to be believed, it's intrinsic and self-evident. It does not mean the world is naturally fair, just that negative lifestyles leads to negative outcomes.
vor 33 Mon.33 mo ago3 Min.3 min
Zapping Across the Bridge
It is now possible to zap across the bridge. By leveraging existing technology in the ecosystem, sats can now flow between Nostr and the Fediverse. The is a first step in the journey to integrate payments with Soapbox.
vor 33 Mon.33 mo ago5 Min.5 min
Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
Threads has begun testing federation over ActivityPub. And they have blocked two important servers I administrate. The first server is the Mostr Bridge. The Mostr Bridge connects ActivityPub and Nostr together, so people can communicate across protocols. The second server is Spinster.xyz, which is arguably the largest independent feminist community online.
vor 34 Mon.34 mo ago8 Min.8 min
Soapbox Awarded Grant by OpenSats
Today I'm pleased to announce that Soapbox has been awarded a grant by OpenSats to build out Ditto, our new project to port Soapbox to Nostr.
vor 40 Mon.40 mo ago3 Min.3 min
Introducing Mostr: a Fediverse Nostr bridge
We hope you enjoy getting to know each other, and that this opens new doors for collaboration.
vor 44 Mon.44 mo ago3 Min.3 min
Discovering Content on the Fediverse
So you've started a new server on the Fediverse - and it's completely empty. By default, nothing happens. You're stuck there alone on your personal little island with no way to the external world.
vor 46 Mon.46 mo ago3 Min.3 min
Releasing Soapbox 3.0
This is the biggest release of Soapbox ever. What started out as a fork of Gab’s 2019 UI has now become a mainstay on the Fediverse. Originally created for the feminist platform Spinster, Soapbox now powers Truth Social, which has quickly become the largest website running Mastodon online.
vor 47 Mon.47 mo ago11 Min.11 min
What I believe
I'm an atheist. Well, I guess I'm agnostic. I think they mean the same thing, it's just that agnostic means "atheist, but not an asshole." But it's not that I don't believe in anything. I do believe in things. I just have my own made-up religion.
vor 51 Mon.51 mo ago2 Min.2 min
Soapbox BE is now Rebased
Back in 2019 I released Soapbox as a fork of Mastodon with a much nicer UI. Over time I got fed up with Mastodon being slow, expensive, and not innovating enough. So I decided to jumped ship to Pleroma.
vor 51 Mon.51 mo ago4 Min.4 min
Soapbox FE v1.3: The Cryptocurrency Release
This update to the user interface for Pleroma+Soapbox brings cryptocurrency features to the Fediverse.
vor 65 Mon.65 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Releasing Soapbox BE v1.1
The Erlang 24 cataclysm event. I hate to start off with something negative, but it needs to be addressed. For a long time we pointed to Pleroma's source install guide, and even used it as the starting point for our own install docs. In that guide, we recommended installing a repo from "erlang-solutions.com" on your server. This was a mistake, as that repo pushes out bleeding edge versions of Erlang literally on the day of a new release.
vor 66 Mon.66 mo ago4 Min.4 min