Announcing the Launch of Ditto 1.0: Community-Based Nostr Client + Relay
Team Soapbox, 6/14/2024, 7 engagements
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Team Soapbox Weekly update! Week of March 9 - 16, 2025
🚀 Launched! New Explore Tab: We officially launched the new Explore tab last week, designed and built by
! This new tab helps you discover the content you are looking for on #Nostr and beyond with easy-to-use filters.
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added basic support for custom emojis!
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and Daniel continued working on adding #Cashu wallet support to #Ditto.
📋 improved development and testing environments.
📈 planned out our product roadmap for the next year.
🪐 Coming soon… Ditto 1.3 This week we’re preparing for the release of Ditto 1.3 and Soapbox 3.3, featuring all of the latest improvements and features we’ve added this past month.
🔮 Looking forward to what’s next? We’ve got a lot ahead of us! Next quarter for Ditto will be all about the admins: featuring a new Admin Dashboard with improved user management, server customization, and content moderation tools to make hosting your own community on Nostr easier than ever.
Want to stay up to date on the latest changes or submit an issue? Follow Soapbox on Gitlab!
https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub
Special thanks this week to all of the brave people already self-hosting their own Ditto server! And, as always, thanks to for making this work possible! 💜 #GrowNostr
🚀 Introducing the #Ditto Explorer! 🪐
We’re excited to launch the new Explore tab, designed to make discovering content across #Nostr easier than ever.
🔍 Powerful Search: Find exactly what you’re looking for with an intuitive search UI over the global feed. Filter by language, media type, replies, and even protocol.
📈 Trending & Account Search: Stay updated with the latest discussions and discover new accounts. (More features are planned for these tabs in the future!)
🎨 Seamlessly Themed: The Explore tab adapts to the custom Ditto theme for self-hosters, ensuring it blends perfectly with your community’s unique style.
This feature was designed and built by
as part of the Soapbox Mentorship Program. Thank you, Daniel, for all your work! #GrowNostr
Try it out here: https://ditto.pub/explore
Team Soapbox Weekly update! Week of March 03 - 09, 2025:
📨 New: Improvements to profile and event fetching!
has improved Ditto's ability to retrieve content on the Nostr network, through both search and automatically pulling in missing events and profiles.
👀 New features in the pipeline:
- continued working on adding Cashu wallet support to #Ditto
- continued working on adding filter UI and new Explore tab to Ditto to improve content discoverability
🐞 Bug Fixes:
- fixed the Streak Modal not popping up from the compose form
- Daniel fixed the ability to remove a 👍 reaction
- Patrick fixed the ability to promote user to Admin in the UI
- Alex fixed nip05 requests, link previews, and a memory leak
🪐 General / Other:
- experimented with building an AI help bot to assist Ditto users, open issues, and suggest improvements to documentation
- MK added new Ditto communities to our featured servers page: Seewan and Cvrkut, who are building Arabic and Croatian communities on Nostr with Ditto! (ps. Are you already hosting a Ditto community we don’t know about? Comment and we will feature you, too!)
- We spoke to new groups who want to use Ditto to get their own communities on Nostr! We’re excited to be moving forward on these projects, and looking forward to collaborating!
Want to stay up to date on the latest changes or submit an issue? Follow Soapbox on Gitlab!
https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub
Thanks to our awesome global team for their contributions. And, as always, thanks to for making this work possible! 🚀 #GrowNostr
We’ve decided to start sharing a weekly rundown of all the work Team Soapbox is doing that you may have missed! This is our first Weekly Update post, for Feb 23 - March 03:
👀 New features in the pipeline:
- worked on adding Cashu () wallet support to #Ditto
- worked on adding new search filters to the Ditto UI
🐞 Bug Fixes:
- added video transcoding to support multiple media types
- Daniel fixed an issue with the timeline focus
- Patrick fixed the ability for an Admin to revoke a username
- Patrick fixed the ability for the Admin to promote other users to Admin
- @[email protected] fixed the streak modal going off screen on mobile devices
- Alex fixed the Admin ability to upload a new site logo (thanks for the bug report!)
- Daniel fixed the missing login button
- Alex made quote-posts of himself show up on #Nostr
- Alex improved Arabic translations for some words
🪐 General / Other:
- added a new frontend testing suite for Ditto with Playwright
- Chad created a staging server for Ditto
- Alex added AI code review to Soapbox repos with Code Bunny
- MK improved Ditto documentation for self-hosters
- Alex improved error handling in #Nostrify
Want to stay up to date on the latest changes or submit an issue? Follow Soapbox on Gitlab! #GrowNostr
https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub
Thanks to our amazing team for their tireless work. And, as always, thanks to for making this work possible! 🚀
New resource: Frequently Asked Questions about #Ditto!
See something we missed? Please let us know! 🚀
Negative filters now work on #Ditto search! For example, try... "protocol:nostr -bitcoin" 😏 #GrowNostr
What is #Ditto?
Ditto is a web-based #Nostr client designed for communities. Here's just a few of the things Ditto offers:
- Free NIP-05 self-service for your Nostr identity
- Fully customizable UI color scheme including light & dark themes
- A local feed of all the users in your Ditto community
- Advanced search and discoverability features
- Lightning payments to monetize your content
- Integrated bridge to other decentralized platforms including #Fediverse and #Bluesky
We have even more awesome community & discoverability features coming soon! Stay tuned!
NEW: #Ditto 🪐 now shows #Nostr posting streaks on user profiles!
Write a post or comment every day within 36 hours to keep your 🔥 streak going.
Want to see your streak? Check it out on https://ditto.pub 👀
We are proud to announce the release of #Ditto 1.2! 🚀
This release is jam-packed with improvements for users, with a focus on #Nostr onboarding, content discoverability, and performance.
ps. More great features coming soon! 🪐
NEW! We've added search filters on #Ditto to help you find the type of content you want to see.
Filters include: videos (#tiktok), media (#instagram), protocol (#Nostr or search over the
bridge to the #Fediverse, #Mastoson, and #Bluesky), language, and domain. You can also combine multiple filters to find, for example, videos only from Nostr.
Experiment with these filters on Ditto today by typing them into the search bar. We plan to expand the UI to make this experience seamless in the future.
Here's the full filter breakdown:
protocol:<nostr|bluesky|activitypub>
media:<true|false>
video:<true|false>
reply:<true|false>
language:
domain:
Update: #Ditto home pages will now feature the profiles of the newest community members to help with onboarding, user retention, and discoverability. Please be sure to make new #Nostr users in your community feel welcome! 👋 🪐 🌱
Anunciando o lançamento do Cobrafuma.com, uma comunidade Nostr para o Brasil! 🐍 🚬 🇧🇷
#Brasil #Brazil #Ditto #Nostr #introductions
https://soapbox.pub/blog/como-entrar-no-nostr-brasil-cobrafuma/
#Ditto 1.1 has been released!
This version comes with many performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as Prometheus metrics.
Next up: a custom relay pool with outbox support.
https://soapbox.pub/blog/ditto-1.1
Thanks to everyone who has been using Ditto and giving feedback!
NEW! Announcing the launch of our third official #Ditto community: Henhouse, administered by
https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-henhouse
Henhouse is a #Nostr community for women. Users get a henhouse.social NIP-05 identity and enjoy local feed with a moderated community, while remaining connected to the larger Nostr network.