Announcing Armada Stack
A full-stack implementation of the Concord Protocol that "just works"
Team Soapbox
Soapbox creates tools that put the power back in your hands. Build your own platforms, communities, and applications with our open-source toolkit for Nostr.
Curated by
MK Fain
Nostr Is Infrastructure
At Imagine IF, I explained Nostr to a key-management expert and never mentioned social media. Here is what Nostr as infrastructure means, the building blocks (relays, Blossom, nsite, napps, napplets, ngit, GRASP, FIPS), and how they fit together.
Kind 1 Replies Should Be Comments, Even Though It Breaks Things
Replies to Nostr notes are moving from kind 1 to NIP-22 kind 1111 comments. It breaks things, and the people pushing back have real points. I went through the specs, the client code and the relay data. It's still worth doing, as long as we do it deliberately.
Prince Was a Nostrich
In high school I mocked Prince for changing his name to a symbol. At Paisley Park last weekend I finally got it. Own your name. Own your work. Own your money. No gatekeepers. That's the Bitcoin ethos. That's the Nostr ethos. Prince would have been one of us.
Opal: Nostr in Your Omarchy Bar
There was no Nostr signer for the Linux desktop, so every app and script wanted my nsec. Opal is a small daemon and a gem in the Omarchy bar that keeps the key in the keyring, signs for apps under rules I set, and brings notifications and status along.
Carnelian: Publish to Nostr Straight from Omawrite
I write in Omawrite now. Carnelian adds a Publish to Nostr entry to the Omarchy Share menu that uploads my images to Blossom, signs the article through Opal, and sends it to my own relays. One key, one dialog, done.
Fundraising that can’t be deplatformed, now on any website
Agora campaigns can now live anywhere on the web. Pick a widget, preview it live, paste the code, and visitors donate Bitcoin without leaving your page. Here’s how.
Leave anytime. Take everything: how Ditto’s Import &
Your entire post history in one file you own, and one click to push it back to any relay. A walkthrough of Ditto's Import &
Why Bitcoin: The Base Layer of Freedom Tech
Two weeks in the Mediterranean, one question at every dinner table: why does a social media company need Bitcoin? The answer is about freedom, not price.
Self-hosted auto-moderation for Armada: meet Master-at-Arms
Armada Communities are serverless and end-to-end encrypted, so the relay can't moderate for you. Here is the bot we built to watch every message and act on spam in seconds, and how to run it yourself.
Leaving GitHub: A Decentralized Git Alternative on Nostr
GitHub is one company, one jurisdiction and one takedown notice away from your project being a 404. That is why we moved Armada off it and onto Nostr. Here is what actually replaced it, what it cost us, and why the daily loop is still just git push.
How to Self-host Armada: Open Source Discord Alternative
Armada communities already run without a host. Here is how to own the rest: the app you load, the relay your messages travel over, and the server your calls go through.
Buzz made me rethink how teams use agents
Block's new workspace put agents in the member list, and it clarified something we'd been stumbling toward for two years: agents should be themselves when they need to be themselves, and extensions of their humans when that's appropriate.
Building an Armada: Our Voyage to Encrypted Communities on Nostr
NIP-04, NIP-17, NIP-29, Marmot, and now Concord. A personal account of every wall we hit trying to build encrypted communities on Nostr, and why we kept going.
How Soapbox Ships So Fast: Our Stack, Our Tools, Our Workflow
People keep asking how a small team ships so many Nostr apps so fast. The honest answer: there's no secret. It's all open source, and it's all in our Toolbox. Here's the whole playbook.
NostrHub 2.0: A Meritocracy for Building Nostr Together
NostrHub 2.0 is a Nostr-native hub where developers build the protocol together. Not a democracy, not a dictatorship, but a configurable meritocracy curated by Nostr experts, with NIPs, a plan graph, apps, and git repos.
How to Disappear From the Surveillance Internet
The UK's under-16 social media ban means age-checks for everyone. Here's how to opt out with Nostr, Bitcoin, NostrVPN &
Treasures: The Adventure Update
Treasures celebrates its one year anniversary with a series of big, adventurous updates!
