Meet the Team

Alex Gleason

Alex Gleason

Alex is the Founder and CEO of Soapbox. He has over a decade of experience building social platforms, and is one of the foremost experts on ActivityPub and the Fediverse. He is still learning, and still dreaming.

marcin mikołajczak

marcin mikołajczak

marcin has contributed at least once to every Fediverse project in existence, but Soapbox is his favorite. He likes to move fast and break things. He joined the team in 2022 with a focus on new feature integrations.

Thanks to the Community!

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Soapbox is seeking active contributors to join our volunteer and freelance community. Browse open issues on GitLab to begin contributing today!

Federated Social Media… Without the barriers.

Soapbox is a powerful frontend for the most popular federated social networks. Currently home to some of the largest servers on the Fediverse, Soapbox makes the freedom of decentralized communication accessible to all by focusing on a familiar and friendly user interface with all the features today’s users have come to expect.

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Built for sustainable growth

Soapbox focuses on user experience, discoverability, and providing monetization avenues for server hosts and content creators. Leading the way in the Fediverse on important growth features like quote posting, donations, and crypto integration, Soapbox is the front-end choice for platforms that want to attract users and keep them coming back for more.

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Always Open Source, Always Free

Soapbox is dedicated to the mission and power of open source software. Soapbox is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 and is always free to use, run, copy, and build on. We are proudly providing jobs for free software contributors across the globe who share our vision! Soapbox is spreading the freedom of decentralized social media a mainstream audience.

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