Soapbox Blog
soapbox.pub · Company blog · on HN since 2020
The team behind Soapbox builds open-source software for the Fediverse and Nostr, including a Mastodon-compatible web interface and a Nostr bridge.
What HN saysHN commenters mention Soapbox as a mature alternative frontend for Pleroma and Mastodon, noting its link to Truth Social and that it is hard to find on Google.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Soapbox – Software for a Free Internet6 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 2Ditto: Build Your Community on Nostr4 people · 17 points · first shared 2024 · 3 comments on HN
- 3Mostr: A Fediverse Nostr Bridge3 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.1 people · 49 points · first shared 2023 · 61 comments on HN
- 5Soapbox, a Web UI for the Fediverse, releases version 3.01 people · 8 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Show HN: Sheila, an AI agent that replaced our accounting flow1 people · 6 points · first shared 2026 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Nostr 101: A Beginner Guide to the Decentralized Social Network1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 8MKStack – AI-Powered Nostr App Build with Dork AI1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 9Soapbox FE v1.1 for Pleroma released1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
- 10Zapping Across the Bridge – Soapbox Blog (2024)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 11Releasing Soapbox 3.01 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12Armada: Open-Source, Encrypted, Discord Alternative Officially in Beta1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Soapbox – Ditto: ActivityPub and Nostr = Decentralized Future1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 14Discovering Content on the Fediverse1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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nathanmarz · 2023-08-15
What do you mean? Every post I do shows up instantly.
Reloading the page from scratch can be slow due to Soapbox doing a lot of stuff asynchronously from scratch (Soapbox is the open-source Mastodon interface that we're using to serve the frontend). https://soapbox.pub/
brucethemoose2 · 2023-07-18
Soapbox is hard to find on Google:
https://soapbox.pub/
> TMTG hired Gleason in January 2022 to adapt Soapbox’s technology for its own needs, eventually using it as the front-end technology - which users see and interact with - for the Truth Social app.
This bit is interesting. I wonder if Truth Social is like a "closed fediverse" under the hood, or if its just the UI that's adapted.
unicornporn · 2022-12-21
> would it be possible for them to look for a second "pleroma/akkoma" server
Soapbox[1] is probably the most mature alternative to Mastodon, but the general consensus seems to be that it can't be used because most users of Mastodon don't align with the Soapbox creator's view on politics.
[1] https://soapbox.pub/
loonshi · 2022-04-05
https://jointhefedi.com gives a good list of instances to join. Check out https://soapbox.pub/ as a great frontend for pleroma.
https://fediverse.express
https://yarrps.xyz/ (domain expired)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210817035751/https://yarrps.xyz/
https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=pleroma
LukeSmith.xyz 's take on Federation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOiCACmjKBM
hawkoy · 2020-08-03
https://soapbox.pub for the lazy.
I was thinking of using a fediverse instance for my blog but I am unsure whether it's a good idea.
greentea23 · 2023-10-17
Why get bit by proprietary+centralized again when we have nostr now? https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr and nostr even bridges to ActivityPub https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/