I create software that empowers people online. I'm vegan btw.
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 little island with no way to the external world.
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.
I'm an atheist. Well, I guess I'm agnostic. I think they mean the same thing, it's just that agnostic means "atheist, but not an asshole." But it's not that I don't believe in anything. I do believe in things. I just have my own made-up religion.
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 innovating enough. So I decided to jumped ship to Pleroma.
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.