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Sadly I don't think I'm going to be able to continue to run #Soapbox. At least not integrated into #Pleroma (now #Akkoma).

Soapbox insists on having the #config be in the #database but when that's set Pleroma/Akkoma refuses to start.

Anyways, too tired right now to mess with it. Will have to look into it more tomorrow.


@alex Newb question: Are the Docs here https://docs.soapbox.pub/ for #SoapBox applicable to a very recent install that followed the install page https://soapbox.pub/install/ with Rebased? I was looking for info on how to best perform updates and backups, but some of that info looks to be for other types of SoapBox installs.


Not sure if I did something wrong, but my installation of #Soapbox with #Pleroma backend went surprisingly smoothly, uncanny really. Thanks a million for the documentation. Wondering if I should have used #Docker but the whole thing was so fast that I did not have to do anything. So far things are happy for my little server, :-)πŸ™‚


@alex@soapbox

does the - Managing relays - rubric in Admin FE also work with Rebased?

#soapbox #pleroma


@alex

Hello Alex,
I have a question about Soapbox. I hope you can help me. Currently I have Pleroma 2.4.4 installed. Here I have the problem that older posts from other instances are not loaded. Is there this problem with rebase / soapbox also?
Is there a possibility to switch from Pleroma to Rebase? Unfortunately I have not found any instructions for this. Many greetings

#pleroma #soapbox #rebase


@alex
Can you please advise what's the best way to find out user counts on #Soapbox? Also, how to disable/enable new account creation on an instance that runs #Pleroma with #Soapbox?


Don’t know. I will find out I guess. This lives on a tiny server running #Pleroma. I really like #Soapbox front end, @alex has done an amazing job. I am still learning a lot everyday, πŸ™‚

The part I like about hosting my own server is the freedom and flexibility. I can β€˜watch the world go by’ from my own instance. Follow whoever I want to follow.


How about setting up your own instance on a server such as #Vultr and use a lightweight app such as #Pleroma and use a skin such as #Soapbox to administer it?



It's nice that #Mastodon is getting all this new attention. Just wanted to remind everyone that there's more than just Mastodon on the Fediverse.

I wanted to setup a single-user instance on the Fediverse, but did not want to deal with the involved Mastodon install (which I've done a while ago). I found Soapbox with Rebased as the back-end and used that. The setup was super simple, it runs well on a low resource machine and the UI is fantastic.

Thanks to @alex for making Soapbox.

https://soapbox.pub/install/

#fediverse #mastodon #soapbox #software


Anybody know if it’s possible to run #Mastodon or #Soapbox in #VirtualBox? Thinking about messing around with self hosting today…


This website is still a WIP. I'll be adding participating projects soon, including #Soapbox #Mitra #Poast and #fediverseexpress

#hackiverse


I'm unable to locate the settings in #Rebased#Soapbox to add new #crypto coins and associated #explorer to the existing list. Couldn't find any documentation either. What's the best way to modify and add to the current list? @alex@gleasonator.com


Does #Rebased#Soapbox have internal point system (see screenshot)? Users can gain or lose points with specific actions on the #fediverse along with widget showing active point leaders. Thoughts on this @alex@gleasonator.com



Yeah...

Perhaps you can explain a bit Alex?

Last I checked, it was a #SoapBox frontend (pretty fricken' kewl), but no web access (WTF is sup wit dat, bitches?), And so I was unable to create an account.

And although there was an #Apple 🍎 app, no such #Android beast.

Is that correct? And what kind of goofy logic is that where you can only access the site if you have an #iPhone?

I suppose i would have tried to use #Fedilab, i would suppose, but you need to already have an account to do that.

I know I'm not "missing out" on anything, but What am I missing here?

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse

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If you use #Soapbox, hit F12, go into the Developer Console, and enter the following text:

β€œa scam and will give them access to your account.”


@alex I just got an idea...what if #Soapbox could incorporate trends by picking a #Mastodon instance (preferably the closest peer) as its trend "anchor" and mirroring the trends it recieves from that instance?


Hey @alex can scheduled task feature be used to schedule content deletions in the past?

I mean, we have "right to oblivion" in EU, and also someone can feel own content as disposable after some months. (For example bot and API)

Auto deletion is a missing feature in #Soapbox today πŸ€”


And will admit that @alex making the #Soapbox beta for #TruthSocial is a conspiracy theory, no hard proof, but I do think my hunch is right


Looks like @alex tidied up the #Soapbox beta! Hope we all get it soon enough.


Yep.

The goal of #Mastodon was, appeal to old ex #Twitter users. Success.

#Pleroma, appeal to nerds. Success.

#Soapbox, appeal to new ex #Twitter users. Success.

Of course all the software is still approaching their goals at varying speeds, but they're honestly largely complete. If you left the software alone for five years it'd all probably be fine.


hello, there is something that i don't understand regarding the #soapbox . soapbox-fe is located in opt/pleroma/instance/static, and there i can see only few folders, but when i clone it from the gitlab, there are a bunch of other folders, and i cant find any of them on my server. so, how can i update the soapbox-fe with the changes that i did in app/soapbox/components/sidebar-navigation.tsx thanks @alex


Yeah that's a #Mastodon limitation

#SoapboxFE is designed to be adaptable to #Mastodon. For example, use it with a #Mastodon instance and you can see trending hashtags, trending posts, and recommend users to follow, which are all #Mastodon features, but if you use it with a #Soapbox instance, you won't be able to use or see those features


This is pretty cool:

https://fe.soapbox.pub/

You can use #soapbox on any instance (although it seems like "soapbox lite")


#Soapbox sure has come a long way in just one year
RT: https://gleasonator.com/objects/3eabaf63-47f4-4314-9ddb-ce7dbf46b393


@alex@e when you're looking at a thread in #Soapbox and the OP's post isn't available to be read (either because the user blocked you or because the post is followers-only), can the space where the post should be say "post unavailable", rather than showing those "loading lines"?


Don’t forget that you can test #Soapbox against #Mastodon and #Pleroma backends by going to https://fe.soapbox.pub/ and pointing it at your site


The #Soapbox website also suggests #Namecheap to users, which is a CF’d registrar who shares your identity & domains with #Cloudflare even if you /buy/ whois privacy (indeed you have to pay extra for whois privacy & then they leak the info anyway). Then to top it all off, the s/w repo is jailed on another Cloudflare site: #Gitlab. WTF.


#Soapbox is a #Cloudflare site that asks for money β€œto support our mission to make decentralized social media the new standard and protect users from the abuses of Big Tech.” Yikes. Cloudflare sites are the opposite of decentralized & they surreptitiously feed you (& your private DMs) to β€œBig Tech”. Thus @soapbox@gleasonator.com is not β€œsexy”. #hypocrisy


If anybody tells you that #Soapbox ain't sexy, they're either lying or castrated


Pritty fricken' kewl Alex!

Although I don't know what you mean by entering credentials into the browser.

Do you mean enter the public key (ETH wallet addy) into the #Soapbox-FE pwd field?

#Mitra itself asks (requires, like you said) you to sign with say, MetaMask, but you're presumably (hopefully) not suggesting that someone paste a private key anywhere.

Regardless, and no matter how you stack it up, Soapbox-FE is a totally rockin' UI.

πŸ€˜πŸ’€πŸ€˜

https://mitra.social/

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My testing with #soapbox was short lived. If I add a soapbox URL in pixelfed search, I get an error occurred, results could not be loaded but if I try mastodon URL, no problem each time.

Maybe #pixelfed is just not compatible? Is soapbox the same as #pleroma the way it handles URL? Anything to check @alex@gleasonator.com?


@alex

I just see this person followed me, and then she blocked me for no reason.

I see it on #soapbox. Don't you think it's a stupid idea that I still can read her post in pleroma FE but #soapbox is unable to read her post?


Well, hardly anybody knows what #Mastodon is, and a good chunk of them don't know what #Pleroma is, and more people know what #Pleroma is than what #Soapbox is, do it actually doesn't surprise me too much. It's pretty sad tho.


It's better than if they built something else πŸ€·πŸΎβ€β™‚οΈ

#Soapbox is way better tho

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