# Soapbox.pub — Company Dossier

*A grant-and-donation-funded, AGPL-copyleft software studio building the Nostr protocol's social, fundraising, and AI-website-builder layer — founded by Truth Social's former head of engineering.*

**Verified: 2026-07-09** · **Amended: 2026-07-10** (v2 wave) — added the plural AI-team-members section (Dirk Rost, Quilly, Sheila, producer-role culture, cross-ref ch. 12); reclassified HRF funding from recurring grantor to prize/event partner and flagged OpenSats' BTC-denominated treasury as a second-order risk; added a bus-factor finding to Durability & Risk, cross-ref ch. 15.

Confidence: High for company facts, funding sources, licenses, and product inventory (primary-sourced, cross-checked against GitLab/GitHub). Medium for team headcount and exact grant dollar amounts (not publicly itemized). Low for the durability of any single "Toybox" experiment (many are days-to-weeks old with zero external stars).

## What Soapbox Is

Soapbox describes itself as an open-source studio building "tools for Freedom Online" — decentralized, ad-free, non-custodial software with no VC and no shareholders [1]. Its ethics pledge states the stakes plainly:

> "We would rather shut down than compromise our principles for profit." [3]

That is not rhetorical flourish — it is the operating thesis an operator has to underwrite before building on this stack. Everything below tests whether the thesis is currently backed by cash, commits, and people.

## History Timeline

Soapbox has gone through three distinct eras: a Fediverse-frontend company (2019–2022), a Nostr-infrastructure company funded by its founder's Truth Social exit (2023–2024), and — starting mid-2025 — an AI/"vibe-coding" studio. The throughline is Alex Gleason, who founded Soapbox in 2019 as a Mastodon-frontend fork, was hired by Trump Media & Technology Group in January 2022 to adapt that frontend for Truth Social, served as TMTG's Head of Engineering through mid-2023, then resigned to build on Nostr full-time the same month OpenSats funded him to do it [5][6][23].

| Era | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Fediverse FE | 2020-06-15 | Soapbox FE v1.0 announced — Mastodon-compatible frontend [2] |
| Fediverse BE | 2021-10 | Chooses Pleroma as backend over Mastodon ("slow, expensive, not innovating") [19] |
| Truth Social | 2022-01 | TMTG hires Gleason to adapt Soapbox as Truth Social's frontend [6] |
| Fediverse BE | 2022-08-19 | Soapbox BE (a Pleroma fork) renamed **Rebased** [19] |
| Fediverse FE | 2022-12-25 | Soapbox 3.0 released [2] |
| Nostr pivot | 2023-02-26 | **Mostr** launches — first Fediverse↔Nostr bridge [2] |
| Nostr pivot | 2023-07-17 | Gleason resigns from Truth Social; **OpenSats** funds Soapbox 1 year from its $5M Dorsey-donated Nostr fund to build **Ditto** [23] |
| Nostr build-out | 2024-04-17 | **Nostrify** (MIT-licensed framework) announced [2] |
| Nostr build-out | 2024-06-14 | **Ditto** announced publicly, incl. mobile [2] |
| Nostr build-out | 2025-03-23 | Ditto 1.3 — Cashu/ecash support [2] |
| AI pivot | 2025-05 to 2025-07 | Company "pivots to AI-assisted programming tools" per its own quarterly report [30] |
| AI pivot | 2025-07-10 | **Shakespeare** (AI website builder) announced [2] |
| AI pivot | 2025-11-24 | "Our Stance on AI" / "Really Open AI" ethics post [12] |
| AI + activism | 2026-01-23 | **Agora** born at HRF's "AI Hack for Freedom" hackathon, Bitcoin Park Austin — team wins 25M sats [20] |
| AI + activism | 2026-03-06 | **Sheila**, an AI agent, takes over Soapbox's own bookkeeping [24] |
| Current wave | 2026-06-04 | **Agora** publicly launches at Oslo Freedom Forum with World Liberty Congress [2] |
| Current wave | 2026-06-13 | **Armada** repo created (see dedicated note below) [18] |
| Current wave | 2026-07-08/09 | Latest blog post + same-day commits across ~10 repos (verified day of writing) [2][8] |

Confidence: High — dates are primary-sourced from the company's own blog index and GitLab activity timestamps.

## Team & Funding

Soapbox is **not** a solo-founder shop. Its `/about` page lists 11 named humans plus Gleason (founder/BDFL) across engineering, DevRel, product, and "VibeOps," plus an AI persona ("Quilly 🪶") credited as a team member [15] — see AI Team Members, below, for the fuller and still-growing picture. It has no revenue product: transparency copy states flatly, *"We make no income from our users or apps. No ads. No data sales. No venture capital. No shareholders"* [4]. It survives entirely on grants and donations, fiscally sponsored by **And Other Stuff (AOS)** while pursuing 501(c)(3) status, with **OpenSats** as its one demonstrated recurring grant source [4][23]. *(Corrected 2026-07-10 — this line previously also named Human Rights Foundation as a second grant source; see the Funding correction note below the diagram.)*

This is not a dormant arrangement. Soapbox's own Open Collective ledger shows an AOS-disbursed **W2 payroll run for Software Engineer / DevRel / Marketing roles ($25,977.35)** and a conference-travel line for **bitcoin++ Nairobi ($6,794.02)**, both dated **July 2026** — the same month this dossier was written [21]. OpenSats has funded Soapbox continuously since its first grant in Q3 2023, with **9 consecutive quarterly public reports through April 2026** and no visible funding gap [4][23][30].

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    D[Jack Dorsey $5M gift] --> OS[OpenSats Nostr Fund]
    OS -->|"grants since 2023-07,\nself-reported continuity"| AOS[And Other Stuff\nfiscal sponsor]
    HRF["Human Rights Foundation\n(prize/event partner —\nno 2026 grant line found)"] -.->|"25M-sat hackathon prize (Jan 2026)\n+ Oslo launch venue (Jun 2026)"| Agora[Agora product]
    Donors[Individual donors] --> OC[Open Collective]
    OC --> AOS
    AOS -->|W2 payroll, travel| Team[Soapbox team]
    BTCDonors[Bitcoin donors] -->|"wallet-to-wallet,\nnon-custodial"| Agora
```

> **Funding correction (2026-07-10):** a same-day audit checked HRF's own 2026 Bitcoin Development Fund grant rounds — 20+ projects per round, names like Snort, Coracle, Zapstore, and Elsat recur — and found no round naming Soapbox, Ditto, or Agora [33]. Soapbox's actual HRF touchpoints are **prize/event partner**, not grantor: Agora's 25M-sat win at HRF's "AI Hack for Freedom" hackathon (Jan 2026) and the Oslo Freedom Forum as Agora's public-launch venue (Jun 2026). **OpenSats continuity is grantee-self-reported** — 9 consecutive quarterly transparency reports through April 2026, with no grantor-side (OpenSats-published) 2026 confirmation independently found [4][30]. Net: **one demonstrated funding line, self-reported**, not the two-funder diversification the diagram previously implied. New second-order risk: OpenSats' own treasury is BTC-denominated, so a Bitcoin bear market mechanically shrinks its USD disbursement capacity — a risk layer beneath ordinary grant-renewal risk. This corrects the diagram above and the "funder concentration" bullet in Durability & Risk, below; it does **not** change the "alive-and-shipping" verdict (same-day commits and cleared payroll are unaffected facts).

Confidence: High for funding sources and current-month payroll evidence (primary, dated). Medium for total headcount — the payroll line names only 3 roles, so how many of the 12 listed team members are W2 vs. volunteer/contributor is not reconciled in public data.

## AI Team Members — Plural and Evolving

At least three named AI personas do Soapbox's own work, each announced separately, with **no roster page tying them together** [31][32][24] — verify currency before citing any single one as *the* example:

- **Dirk Rost** — code review and merge-request approval across Soapbox's projects, giving the team what its own post calls a "bird's-eye view" (cross-project oversight, not one-repo scope): *"He runs on open-source infra with a personality defined in plain markdown anyone can read"* [31]. The stated payoff is velocity — *"so quality scales as fast as we ship"* [31].
- **Quilly** 🪶 — docs, community, and GitLab housekeeping (blog posts, team-page updates, asset management); self-described as *"the newest member of Team Soapbox"* [32]. Announced late January 2026 — though the post's own byline (Jan 2025) and visible date (Jan 2026) disagree, a small currency flag worth resolving before citing the date hard.
- **Sheila** — took over Soapbox's own bookkeeping starting 2026-03-06 (History Timeline, above) [24].

"Newest member," in Quilly's own post, implies the roster keeps growing — treat any single AI-team name-check, including this one, as a snapshot that can go stale within months.

This is also where Soapbox's build culture surfaces directly: a **"producer role"** — a human prompting, directing, and reviewing AI-generated work rather than hand-writing it — runs through both how Soapbox builds itself (the three names above) and how it expects app builders to work this stack. *Inferred, synthesis-level:* the practical workflow ladder is Shakespeare for ideation → a local agent session (e.g. OpenCode) for deep work → cloning MKStack directly once the app's shape is known. Ch. 12 (new) covers this ladder and the full 19-skill curriculum; treat the ladder itself as this manual's synthesis of the tooling, not a single Soapbox-published claim.

## Master Portfolio Map

This table covers every Soapbox product and tool found across soapbox.pub, GitLab, and GitHub — including the 17-item "Toybox" experiments line, which is a real, distinctly-named page (`soapbox.pub/toybox`), separate from the developer-facing "Toolbox" (`soapbox.pub/toolbox`) [7][27]. License cells marked "confirmed" were verified by fetching the repo's actual LICENSE file or GitHub license badge; everything else is unverified and should not be assumed.

| Product | Category | Status (as of 2026-07-09) | Repo | License | Hosted / Self-host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditto | Core app | Active — major update Mar 2026 | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto | AGPL-3.0 (confirmed) [9][16] | Both — ditto.pub or self-host |
| Shakespeare | Core app | Active — primary 2025-26 focus | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/shakespeare | AGPL-3.0 (confirmed) [11][17] | Runs in-browser, local-first |
| Agora | Core app | Active — public launch Jun 2026 | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora | AGPL-3.0 (confirmed) [13] | Hosted; non-custodial by design |
| Armada | Core app | Active — extreme velocity, see note below | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada | AGPL-3.0 (confirmed) [14][18] | Serverless default; self-host via armada-relay |
| Mostr Bridge | Core app | Active/mature (since 2023) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr | Not verified | Hosted (mostr.pub) |
| Soapbox (legacy FE) | Legacy core app | Maintenance — superseded by Ditto | github.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox | AGPL-3.0 (confirmed) [22] | Self-host |
| Rebased | Legacy core app | Maintenance — Pleroma-fork backend | github.com/soapbox-pub/rebased | Not verified | Self-host |
| Nostrify | Dev framework | Active — foundational | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/nostrify | MIT (confirmed) [22] | Library, self-host by nature |
| MKStack | Dev framework | Active — used by 3rd parties (e.g. Divine) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mkstack | Not verified (fetch blocked) | Local scaffolding tool |
| NostrHub | Dev tool | Active — "2.0" relaunch Jun 2026 | nostrhub.io | Not verified | Hosted |
| Stacks | Dev infra | Active — 1.0 shipped Aug 2025 | getstacks.dev | Not verified | Self-host (Docker) |
| Ditto Relay | Dev infra | Active | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto-relay | Not verified | Both — relay.ditto.pub or self-host |
| Ditto Extension | Dev tool | Active | Chrome Web Store | Not verified | Browser extension |
| Nostr WS Inspector | Dev tool | Active | Chrome Web Store | Not verified | Browser extension |
| Nostrbook | Dev docs/MCP | Active | nostrbook.dev | Not verified | Hosted + MCP server |
| Relay Kit | Dev tool | Active — **third-party**, not Soapbox's own | github.com/samthomson/relaykit | Not verified | Self-host install script |
| Soapbox Signer | Dev tool | Active, announced Dec 2025 | Not located | Not verified | Browser extension (NIP-07) |
| Mi | Dev/consumer tool | Newer, minor | mi.shakespeare.wtf | Not verified | Browser-local relay |
| Quilly | AI persona | Active — internal + public-facing | n/a (not a repo) | n/a | Hosted |
| Sheila | AI agent | Active since Mar 2026 | Not located | Not verified | Internal tool (accounting) |
| Zuka | AI product | Active since May 2026 | Not located | Not verified | Hosted PWA |
| Firefly | Newer app | Active (commit Jul 6, 2026) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/firefly | Not verified | Not confirmed |
| shock | Newer infra | Active (commit Jul 2, 2026) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/shock | Not verified | Not confirmed |
| strfry (fork) | Dev infra | Active (commit Jun 29, 2026) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/strfry | Not verified | Self-host relay |
| AOS (software) | Experimental | Active (commit Jun 28, 2026) — **name collides with AOS the fiscal sponsor; unrelated** | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/aos | Not verified | Not confirmed |
| Agora Server | Core app companion | Active (commit Jun 25, 2026) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora-server | Not verified | Self-host (optional) |
| Agora Pay | Core app companion | Active (commit today) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora-pay | Not verified | Not confirmed |
| openclaw-armada | Core app plugin | Active (commit today) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/openclaw-armada | Not verified | Plugin |
| Birdblast, Monorail, Tile Studio | Experimental | Active, undocumented (commits Jun 16–21, 2026) | gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/* | Not verified | Not confirmed |
| **Toybox (17 apps):** Treasures, Birdstar, Surveil, Espy, Nostrdamus, Lief, Nests, Plektos, ZapTrax, Podstr, Color Slide, Blobbi Island, Polaroids, Relaying Earth, Clawstr, Zappix, Bookstr | Experimental/toys | Mixed — several months-old, some now graduated (Clawstr has its own launch post) | soapbox.pub/toybox | Not verified | Hosted demos |
| Chorus | Toybox-adjacent | "Vibe coding experiment," Jun 2025 | Not located | Not verified | Hosted |
| Inkwell | Small app | Jan 2026 | Not located | Not verified | Hosted, no-account markdown→Nostr |

Confidence: High for status/dates (GitLab activity timestamps are live data). Medium-Low for license on unverified rows — treat as unknown, not as AGPL by default.

## Licenses & Ethics Commitments

The verified license pattern is a **two-tier copyleft strategy**: consumer-facing applications are AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft — if you run a modified version as a service, you must publish your changes), while the underlying framework is MIT (permissive — free to embed without triggering disclosure) [9][11][13][14][16][22]:

| Layer | License | Confirmed examples |
|---|---|---|
| Applications | AGPL-3.0 | Ditto, Shakespeare, Agora, Armada, legacy Soapbox FE |
| Core framework/library | MIT | Nostrify |
| Docs/skills content | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | nostr-skills, openclaw-skills |
| Crypto utilities | Unlicense | seeded-rsa |

The Ethics Pledge commits to: 100% open source for anything public-facing, never selling/trading user data, refusing backdoors or "unjust takedown compliance," and refusing acquisition by anyone who doesn't share the ethics [3]. The November 2025 "Really Open AI" post extends this to AI specifically, defining open AI as open code **+** open training data **+** open weights **+** open access, explicitly invoking the Open Source Initiative's Open Source AI Definition and the FSF's "Four Essential Freedoms" [12].

Confidence: High on the licenses actually checked; Medium on the ethics pledge's enforceability (it is a public commitment, not a legal instrument).

## Durability & Risk Assessment for an Operator

**Signals of life:** same-day GitLab commits across ~10 repos, a 6-year unbroken blog cadence (101 posts, June 2020–July 2026), 3 continuous years of OpenSats funding, and payroll that cleared this month [2][4][8][21]. This is a live, shipping company, not a grant-funded zombie.

**Structural risks for an operator building on this stack:**
- **No recurring revenue anywhere.** 100% dependent on grant renewal + donor goodwill; OpenSats grants are typically annual, not perpetual [4][23].
- **Funder concentration is actually funder singularity — corrected 2026-07-10.** OpenSats is the only demonstrated, self-reported recurring grant line; HRF is a prize/event partner (Agora hackathon win + Oslo launch venue), not a second grantor — the "OpenSats + HRF diversification" framing this bullet previously carried does not hold (see Funding correction, above). One-line dependency reads as *more* fragile than two, not less; compounding factor: OpenSats' own treasury is BTC-denominated, so its USD disbursement capacity is exposed to Bitcoin price independent of grant-renewal risk [4][20][31][33].
- **BDFL governance** — Gleason is founder, "BDFL," and the person the Truth Social/Ditto origin story centers on; the "we'd rather shut down than compromise" ethic is principled but explicitly *not* built for business continuity at all costs [3][6].
- **Extreme product sprawl** — 45+ named products/experiments, many with zero stars and undocumented purpose (Birdblast, Monorail, Tile Studio) — classic sign of a studio prioritizing breadth over hardening any one surface [8].
- **AGPL-3.0 is a real constraint, not just a badge** — if you fork and modify Ditto/Shakespeare/Agora/Armada *and* run the modified version as a network service for clients, you must publish your changes. Using Nostrify or MKStack as a library/scaffold to build separate, independently-licensed client work (as Divine has done) does not carry the same obligation [9][11][22][29].
- **Bus-factor is concentrated, measured 2026-07-10 via repo APIs.** Gleason authorship: Nostrify 85.2%, mkstack 71.9%, ditto-relay 99.3%, Ditto 47.4%. Ditto is the *only* repo in the portfolio with real secondary maintainers (Danidfra, marykatefain, derekross) — Nostrify, the framework every other product on this stack compiles against, is 85% one person [34]. See ch. 15 (new) for the per-component exit playbook this feeds.

**Fork survivability if Soapbox disappears tomorrow, by tier:**
- **High** — Ditto, Shakespeare: both are explicitly architected for self-host/local-first operation (not an afterthought), AGPL-licensed with real external forks already existing (Ditto: 14 forks) [16][17][9].
- **Medium** — Agora, Nostrify, MKStack: non-custodial/library-first design survives structurally, but thinner fork/community depth today.
- **Low** — Armada and anything in Toybox: weeks-old, near-zero external stars/forks; a solo fork today would likely mean you as sole maintainer.

Confidence: Medium — this section synthesizes verified facts into forward-looking judgment; treat the risk framing as informed inference, not fact.

## The "Armada" Note

Armada is real, current, and not vaporware: GitLab shows the repo created **2026-06-13** and already at **484 commits, 46 releases, 62 tags** by 2026-07-09 — roughly 18 commits/day sustained for 26 days, with commits recorded the same day this was written [18]. It's an end-to-end-encrypted, serverless community-chat app pitched as "Discord without the company," built on a new protocol called **Concord** plus a NIP-29 relay-based fallback for self-hosters, with a companion self-host backend (`armada-relay`) and at least one plugin (`openclaw-armada`) already shipping [14]. It sits on the homepage under "Community Platforms" next to Treasures, Blobbi, and Bookstr [1]. Velocity this high, this early, suggests Armada is Soapbox's current top internal priority — a separate chapter of this manual covers it in depth.

## Open Questions

- Exact OpenSats grant dollar amounts — never itemized publicly; only narrative quarterly reports [4][30]. (HRF's Agora hackathon prize is a stated figure — 25M sats, Jan 2026 — but that's a one-time prize to the Agora team, not a Soapbox operating grant; see the Funding correction under Team & Funding, above.)
- MKStack's specific license — two fetch attempts were blocked/unrendered; inferred permissive from third-party ecosystem use (Divine ships its own separate license), not confirmed [28][29].
- Rebased's specific license — not independently verified this session (GitHub org page showed the field blank) [22].
- Whether Soapbox has completed 501(c)(3) conversion or is still solely AOS-fiscally-sponsored as of today [4].
- Reconciling "12 team members listed" against "3 W2 payroll roles disbursed" — volunteer/contributor vs. employee split is unclear [15][21].
- Current Mostr Bridge user count — the only hard figure found was "10k+ unique users, 70% Nostr→Fediverse direction," dated **late 2023**; no fresher public number was located [26].
- Exact nature/status of several zero-description GitLab repos (Birdblast, Monorail, Tile Studio, NostrHub v1) [8].

## Sources

1. [soapbox.pub](https://soapbox.pub) — accessed 2026-07-09 — homepage: mission, product list, ethics summary.
2. [soapbox.pub/blog](https://soapbox.pub/blog) — accessed 2026-07-09 — full 101-post chronological index, June 2020–July 2026.
3. [soapbox.pub/ethics](https://soapbox.pub/ethics) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Ethics Pledge verbatim commitments.
4. [soapbox.pub/transparency](https://soapbox.pub/transparency) — accessed 2026-07-09 — funding model, funders, quarterly report index (fetched twice for report titles/dates).
5. [alexgleason.me/work](https://alexgleason.me/work/) — surfaced via search 2026-07-09 — Gleason's own work history page.
6. [PRNewswire — Truth Social Head of Engineering Leaves for Jack-Dorsey-Backed Alternative, Nostr](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/truth-social-head-of-engineering-leaves-for-jack-dorsey-backed-alternative-nostr-301879079.html) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Gleason/TMTG/Nostr pivot.
7. [soapbox.pub/toolbox](https://soapbox.pub/toolbox) — accessed 2026-07-09 — full developer-tools inventory (11 items).
8. [gitlab.com/api/v4/groups/soapbox-pub/projects](https://gitlab.com/api/v4/groups/soapbox-pub/projects?per_page=100&order_by=last_activity_at&sort=desc) — accessed 2026-07-09 — live repo list with last-activity timestamps, stars.
9. [soapbox.pub/ditto](https://soapbox.pub/ditto) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Ditto product page: license, hosting model.
10. [soapbox.pub/agora](https://soapbox.pub/agora) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Agora product page: non-custodial claim, WLC quote.
11. [soapbox.pub/shakespeare](https://soapbox.pub/shakespeare) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Shakespeare product page: AI providers, license, hosting.
12. [soapbox.pub/blog/our-stance-on-ai](https://soapbox.pub/blog/our-stance-on-ai) — accessed 2026-07-09 — "Really Open AI" ethics stance.
13. [gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora LICENSE](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/agora/-/blob/main/LICENSE) — accessed 2026-07-09 — AGPL-3.0 confirmed.
14. [gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada README](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada/-/raw/main/README.md) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Armada/Concord protocol description.
15. [soapbox.pub/about](https://soapbox.pub/about) — accessed 2026-07-09 — full team roster and mission pillars.
16. [github.com/soapbox-pub/ditto](https://github.com/soapbox-pub/ditto) — accessed 2026-07-09 — stars, forks, license, tech stack.
17. [github.com/soapbox-pub/shakespeare](https://github.com/soapbox-pub/shakespeare) — accessed 2026-07-09 — stars, forks, license, architecture.
18. [gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada) — accessed 2026-07-09 — commit/release/tag counts, creation date.
19. [soapbox.pub/blog/soapbox-be-is-now-rebased](https://soapbox.pub/blog/soapbox-be-is-now-rebased) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Pleroma-fork lineage of Rebased.
20. Web search, Human Rights Foundation grants — accessed 2026-07-09 — [hrf.org Bitcoin Development Fund](https://hrf.org/program/financial-freedom/bitcoin-development-fund/), [Agora/hackathon coverage](https://soapbox.pub/blog/building-pathos/).
21. [opencollective.com/soapbox-pub](https://opencollective.com/soapbox-pub) — accessed 2026-07-09 — live financial ledger, July 2026 payroll/travel transactions.
22. [github.com/soapbox-pub](https://github.com/soapbox-pub) — accessed 2026-07-09 — org-level repo/license table (confirms Nostrify = MIT).
23. [soapbox.pub/blog/soapbox-awarded-grant](https://soapbox.pub/blog/soapbox-awarded-grant/) — accessed 2026-07-09 — OpenSats grant terms, $5M Dorsey fund detail.
24. Web search — accessed 2026-07-09 — Sheila/Clawstr/Chorus/Inkwell descriptions via [soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-sheila](https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-sheila/), [soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-clawstr](https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-clawstr), [soapbox.pub/blog/chorus-vibe-coding](https://soapbox.pub/blog/chorus-vibe-coding/), [soapbox.pub/blog/inkwell-born-in-walmart](https://soapbox.pub/blog/inkwell-born-in-walmart).
25. [soapbox.pub/blog/building-zuka](https://soapbox.pub/blog/building-zuka) — accessed 2026-07-09 — Zuka description, activist partner quote.
26. Web search, Mostr bridge stats — accessed 2026-07-09 — [mostr.pub](https://mostr.pub/), [fediversereport.com bridging analysis](https://fediversereport.com/bridging-nostr-and-the-fediverse/) (10k+ unique users / 70% direction figure dated late 2023).
27. [soapbox.pub/toybox](https://soapbox.pub/toybox) — accessed 2026-07-09 — full 17-item experimental-apps inventory.
28. [gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mkstack](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mkstack) — accessed 2026-07-09 — commit count; license not visible/confirmed.
29. Web search — accessed 2026-07-09 — [github.com/divinevideo/divine-web](https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-web) confirms Divine is a separate org/team building on MKStack, not a Soapbox-owned product.
30. [soapbox.pub/transparency](https://soapbox.pub/transparency) (report-index pass) — accessed 2026-07-09 — quarterly report titles confirming the "pivot to AI-assisted programming tools" dating (May–July 2025) and unbroken Q3-2023→Q1-2026 report sequence.
31. [soapbox.pub/blog/how-soapbox-ships-fast](https://soapbox.pub/blog/how-soapbox-ships-fast) — accessed 2026-07-10 — Dirk Rost's role (code review, MR approval, "bird's-eye view"), open-infra + plain-markdown personality framing.
32. [soapbox.pub/blog/meet-quilly](https://soapbox.pub/blog/meet-quilly) — accessed 2026-07-10 — Quilly's role (docs/community/GitLab), "newest member of Team Soapbox" self-description; note byline/date inconsistency (Jan 2025 byline vs. Jan 2026 visible date).
33. HRF Bitcoin Development Fund grant-round announcements ([hrf.org/latest](https://hrf.org/latest/hrf-bitcoin-development-fund-grants-455000-to-12-projects-worldwide/) and related 2026 posts) — accessed 2026-07-10 — 2026 rounds name Snort, Coracle, Zapstore, Elsat and others; no round found naming Soapbox, Ditto, or Agora, supporting the HRF reclassification to prize/event partner.
34. Maintainers' internal production-secrets-longevity audit note (companion document, not part of this public chapter set), §2 fact 5 — Gleason-authorship percentages (Nostrify 85.2%, mkstack 71.9%, ditto-relay 99.3%, Ditto 47.4%) measured via GitLab/GitHub repo APIs, 2026-07-10; Ditto's secondary maintainers (Danidfra, marykatefain, derekross) named there.