Media Kit
Meet the Soapbox leadership team available for interviews, presentations, and media appearances. Our team combines decades of experience in decentralized technology, AI innovation, and community building.
Latest Press Release
Soapbox Launches Ditto: A Customizable Social Hub for the Open Web, Powered by Bitcoin
Soapbox launches Ditto, a fully customizable social platform that connects Nostr, Bluesky, and Mastodon in one place. Built on open protocols with Bitcoin Lightning payments. Available now on iOS, Android, and web.
Alex Gleason
BDFL of Soapbox
Alex Gleason
BDFL of Soapbox
Alex has more than decade of experience building social platforms, and is one of the foremost experts on decentralized social protocols, including Nostr, and the Fediverse. He was the head of engineering at Truth Social from 2022-23, and has built some of the largest communities on the decentralized web.
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MK Fain
Chief Product Officer
MK Fain
Chief Product Officer
M. K. is a passionate advocate for digital freedom with a track record for building spaces for silenced groups online. In 2019 she founded Spinster, the largest women's community on the decentralized web. She is the former Communications Director for the Women's Liberation Front, and her work has been profiled in outlets such as the Atlantic and Vice.
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A Dictator's Worst Nightmare: Digital Tools of Empowerment
Nostr vs. the Fediverse
Derek Ross
Developer Relations
Derek Ross
Developer Relations
Derek Ross wears many hats, reflected by his many nicknames in the Nostr space. Called "The Nostr Evangelist" in all seriousness and, jokingly, "The Nostr CEO," no one loves the open source protocol of Nostr more than Derek. He is passionate about building the Nostr ecosystem through education, evangelism, and creating useful applications.
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Media Coverage Archive
Recent Press Mentions
TechCrunch
"Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media"
Read article →Feminist Current
"Spinster is in its infancy, but already making waves on the Fediverse"
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TechCrunch featured coverage highlighting Soapbox's impact in decentralized social media
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Company Background & Timeline
About Soapbox
Soapbox is a technology company building free and open-source software for decentralized social media. Our mission is to empower communities online through tools that prioritize user freedom, data sovereignty, and censorship resistance. We're the creators of Ditto, MKStack, Shakespeare, and other innovative platforms that are reshaping how people connect and communicate on the internet.
Founded by Alex Gleason, Soapbox has grown from a single developer's vision to a distributed team of passionate builders working to decentralize social media. Our tools power communities with thousands of users and have facilitated millions of interactions on decentralized protocols like Nostr.
Key Milestones
Launched a massive update to Ditto, the world's first fully customizable, open source, and decentralized social platform. Introduced deep personalization with themes, backgrounds, and fonts, plus support for infinite content types including articles, music, photos, livestreams, and more.
Released Shakespeare Act 2, transforming from a simple AI website builder into a full-featured development environment with Git integration and local file storage.
Introduced Shakespeare, an AI-powered website builder running entirely on the Nostr protocol, making web development accessible through natural conversation.
Soapbox joined And Other Stuff (AOS), a collective of open source developers committed to building the Nostr ecosystem
Launched Ditto, a Nostr community server with moderation, spam filters, and enterprise features, now powering multiple communities with thousands of users.
Built the Mostr Bridge, connecting Fediverse and Nostr protocols for seamless cross-platform communication. This marked Soapbox's strategic pivot to focus on Nostr protocol, recognizing its potential for truly decentralized social media infrastructure.
Truth Social deployed using Soapbox technology, demonstrating the platform's enterprise-grade capabilities and scalability for large-scale social media applications.
Alex Gleason founded Soapbox, focused on building user-friendly and customizable Fediverse frontend with a community-centered experience.
Launched Spinster, a women-focused social platform that demonstrated the early vision for building censorship-resistant, community-driven, and decentralized social media.
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Our team has a combined reach of over 200,000 followers across Nostr, X, and other platforms. We actively share interviews and coverage with our audience.
200k+ followers across our team's social platforms
Active Nostr community of developers and builders
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