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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:21:49 JST Alex Gleason
   On this evening of September 11, I am pleased to announce that I have tagged a Ditto alpha1 release and deployed it to https://gleasonator.dev
   
   Ditto LIVES. Here's what you need to know:
   
   - It's Soapbox on Nostr.
   - Ditto pretends to be a Mastodon server while using the Nostr protocol.
   - You can use Mastodon apps other than Soapbox (but you need to obtain a Nostr private key first).
   - ActivityPub is not supported yet, but it will be. It's part of what makes Ditto, Ditto.
   - Ditto is about building communities on Nostr, similar to ActivityPub.
   - Nostr uses private keys. There is still a lot of work to do in Soapbox to improve this experience.
   - This is not optimized. Please excuse any slowness or glitches. If something isn't working, try refreshing the page. I will improve this.
   - It's still a demo. This is just for poking around, so don't get too attached.
   
   This is just the beginning. alpha1 is just BARELY usable. But I want to get the ball rolling. Things are going to change a lot in both Soapbox and Ditto. These things take time, but we will win. Thank you all for your patience, enthusiasm, and support!
   
   Follow along with #ditto here: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/issues
   
   Enjoy!
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:48:27 JST Matty

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     Nice job, Alex!
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:49:14 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Can you use the key extensions so you can’t steal my nsec?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:50:56 JST Alex Gleason

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     • sj_zero
     @sj_zero Potentially yes, see: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/merge_requests/45/diffs
     
     It might be easier to do this on a per-user rather than per-server basis. I'm thinking of supporting both ways.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:51:00 JST sj_zero

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     In the medium term, can we expect a migration path from rebased to ditto?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:51:24 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @bot Yep, it support NIP-07
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:53:13 JST Alex Gleason

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     I couldn't wait for Revolver any longer.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:55:03 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Do you have an opinion on nos2x vs alby, or something else entirely?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:57:28 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Salastil
     • sj_zero
     @Salastil @sj_zero Rebased will exist as long as it needs to to support the existing communities, but I think it kind of deprecated itself when Pleroma started puking out security vulnerabilities twice per week.
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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:57:29 JST Salastil

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     • sj_zero
     Is Rebased being deprecated once Ditto manages to get the ActivityPub stuff operational?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 09:58:41 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Fediverse Contractor
     @bot I use Alby, never tried nos2x. I think I may build a custom extension or remote signer app at some point.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:19:56 JST Alex Gleason

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     Well, my CPU is getting murdered. One moment.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:22:31 JST Alex Gleason

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     • shrimps!
     @animeirl snapd and ipfs are pushing it to 100%. Maybe IPFS is bad after all.
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     shrimps! (animeirl@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:22:32 JST shrimps!

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     the request was a legal request
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:29:35 JST Alex Gleason

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     And we're back. This is a fun lesson. And chaos.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:37:38 JST Alex Gleason

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     Jesus, did that much really happen in the span of like an hour?
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     Ademan (ademan@thebag.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:52:24 JST Ademan

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     alex gleason causes 9/11 2

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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 10:52:49 JST Alex Gleason

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     Here's what the 500 relays connected to my firehose think about my project.
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     gvs (gvs@rebelbase.site)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:47:17 JST gvs

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     Wow. I love this. Will run a ditto server when it is stable(r).
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 01:11:00 JST Sexy Moon

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     @alex how does it protect your private key right now?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 01:13:15 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Sexy Moon
     @Moon You have options. The main way to use Ditto seriously is with a browser extension like Alby or nos2x. This will expose only a `signEvent` function to Ditto, and the extension will prompt you when it wants to sign something.
     
     If you don't have a browser extension, it generates a key for you on pageload, and then as I discovered last night reloading the page makes you lose it and it seems to stop working.
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     Tassoman (tassoman@orwell.fun)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 04:45:32 JST Tassoman

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     I will join when core feature will be released too.
     For me now, it's just marketing, such as cute fluffies and mugs.
     🤙
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 09:22:31 JST Alex Gleason

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     • shitpisscum
     @shitpisscum Yep. In theory it will work with Pleroma FE. And yeah, it's broken rn. Check back in like a week and all that will be fixed.
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     shitpisscum (shitpisscum@mrhands.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 09:22:33 JST shitpisscum

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     @alex So for now this is basically a nostr client? Also any plans to get the 'edit profile' thing working, it seems to be just timing out after 60 seconds?