Cover Image for X Banned in Brazil: How to Join Nostr

Cobrafuma.com provides an easy onboarding experience for Brazilians to join Nostr, the only truly censorship-resistant social media platform

M. K. Fain
M. K. Fain
Cover Image for Ditto 1.1

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 improveme

Cover Image for Announcing Henhouse: A Nostr Community for Women

Announcing Henhouse: A Nostr Community for Women

Join a moderated Nostr community for women, and remain conencted to the rest of the network

Cover Image for Announcing Ditto

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 abso

Cover Image for How to Follow Threads Accounts from Nostr with the Mostr Bridge

How to Follow Threads Accounts from Nostr with the Mostr Bridge

Nostr users can now follow certain Threads accounts via ActivityPub. Learn how to follow Threads users from Nostr.

Cover Image for How to Follow Bluesky Accounts from Nostr with the Mostr Bridge + Bridgy Fed

How to Follow Bluesky Accounts from Nostr with the Mostr Bridge + Bridgy Fed

Nostr users can now follow Bluesky accounts thanks to a combination of the Mostr Bridge and Bridgy Fed! Learn how to follow Bluesky users from Nostr.

Cover Image for Creating Curated Communities on Nostr with Ditto

Creating Curated Communities on Nostr with Ditto

Ditto empowers users build the community they want to see on Nostr

Cover Image for Announcing Nostrify

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.

Cover Image for Zapping Across the Bridge

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. Th

Cover Image for Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.

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 Bridg

Cover Image for Soapbox Awarded Grant by OpenSats

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.

Cover Image for Introducing Mostr: a Fediverse Nostr bridge

Introducing Mostr: a Fediverse Nostr bridge

We hope you enjoy getting to know each other, and that this opens new doors for collaboration.

Cover Image for Discovering Content on the Fediverse

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 li

Cover Image for Releasing Soapbox 3.0

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 create

Cover Image for Soapbox BE is now Rebased

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 innova

Cover Image for Why the Future of Social Media is Decentralized

Why the Future of Social Media is Decentralized

Mainstream social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Youtube have been under fire for years, blamed for nearly any issue you can thin

Cover Image for How to Take Down Big Tech? With Great UX

How to Take Down Big Tech? With Great UX

Ask a random stranger on the street how they feel about “Big Tech”, and you’re likely to be met with some criticism. Whether you think tech giants lik

Cover Image for What is the Fediverse? (And How to Join It)

What is the Fediverse? (And How to Join It)

The Fediverse is a network of decentralized social media sites which all have the ability to communicate with one another. There are currently over 5,

Cover Image for Server Safety and Moderation Features in Soapbox

Server Safety and Moderation Features in Soapbox

Soapbox and the Fediverse offer site administrators multiple tools to ensure the safety of their users and the enforcement of community standards. Thi

Cover Image for Choosing a Backend for Soapbox

Choosing a Backend for Soapbox

Soapbox is a versatile frontend for the Fediverse which supports multiple backends. The most obvious choice for most use cases is Soapbox BE, our in-h

Cover Image for Soapbox FE v1.3: The Cryptocurrency Release

Soapbox FE v1.3: The Cryptocurrency Release

This update to the user interface for Pleroma+Soapbox brings cryptocurrency features to the Fediverse.

Cover Image for Releasing Soapbox BE v1.1

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 sour

Cover Image for Announcing Soapbox BE v1.0

Announcing Soapbox BE v1.0

Soapbox BE is a production ready Pleroma branch. It's being maintained alongside Pleroma, with additional bugfixes and features. Our goal is to move f

Cover Image for Soapbox FE v1.2 Released

Soapbox FE v1.2 Released

With a slew of administration new features, this release builds on the stability of the v1.1 release. It brings us up to speed with Pleroma 2.3, relea

Cover Image for Soapbox FE v1.1 Released

Soapbox FE v1.1 Released

This release is so solid it makes v1.0 feel unfinished. Truly, Soapbox FE was put to the ultimate test — a real social network with 14,000 users. 185

Cover Image for Announcing Soapbox FE v1.0

Announcing Soapbox FE v1.0

After 12 weeks of strenuous labor, we're excited to announce that the Soapbox Frontend is finally stable. Countless hours and late nights were spent p