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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.
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.
This update to the user interface for Pleroma+Soapbox brings cryptocurrency features to the Fediverse.
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.
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, released last month. Managing a Fediverse server can be challenging. That's why we brought the most important admin features into a convenient dashboard.
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 issues were closed. Major new features were added. This update brings us up to speed with the latest Pleroma, released last month.