Soapbox Launches Ditto: A Customizable Social Hub for the Open Web
Soapbox Launches Ditto:
A Customizable Social Hub
for the Open Web
Powered by Bitcoin Lightning, connecting Nostr, Bluesky, and Mastodon in one place — with full personalization, encrypted messages, and virtual pets.
Las Vegas, NV — April 20, 2026 — For Immediate Release
People are tired of social media that treats them like a product. Today at Bitcoin 2026, Soapbox announced the public launch of Ditto — a fully customizable, open source social platform that brings the personal web roaring back.
Ditto isn’t just another alternative to X or Bluesky. It’s a hub for the open web, connecting users across Nostr, Bluesky, and Mastodon in one place, with Bitcoin Lightning payments built in natively.
What Makes Ditto Different
Full personalization
Custom themes with colors, backgrounds, fonts, and layouts. Browse community-created themes or build your own. The era of personal, expressive profiles is back.
A hub, not a silo
Follow and interact with users on Bluesky and Mastodon without leaving Ditto. Your feed, your rules, across multiple networks.
Bitcoin-native payments
Creators receive Lightning tips (“zaps”) directly on posts and profiles. Peer to peer, instant, borderless. No payment processor takes a cut.
You own your account
Built on Nostr, users hold their own cryptographic keys. No company can suspend your identity, and you can take your social graph to any compatible app at any time.
Virtual pets — Blobbis
Tamagotchi-style companions that live in your feed. Hatch an egg, raise it through 16 forms, and watch it follow you around the app.
Encrypted letters
Decorated, personal messages with custom stationery, stickers, and 3D animated envelopes.
Build your own microapps
With Shakespeare, anyone can create lightweight apps and publish them directly to the Ditto network. Software as a creative act, powered by AI.
In Their Words
“Ditto is a place of creation. An endless garden where thousands of flowers can bloom. People can use Shakespeare.diy to create their own apps, then share them on a social network with Ditto. I want to prove that making software is a form of art. Especially with AI.”
Alex Gleason Founder, Soapbox — Former Head of Engineering, Truth Social
Open Source & Decentralized
Ditto applies the same principles that made Bitcoin unstoppable to social communication. Just as Bitcoin removed trusted intermediaries from money, Nostr removes them from speech. Your key is yours — no platform can revoke it.
Ditto is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and the full source code is available on GitLab. Anyone can read, copy, improve, or self-host their own instance. Documentation is available at about.ditto.pub.
About & Contact
About Soapbox
Founded by Alex Gleason, former Head of Engineering at Truth Social. Soapbox builds open source tools for the decentralized web, funded by grants and donations from OpenSats and the Human Rights Foundation. No ads, no investors, no data sales.
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