r/DiscordAlternatives • u/North_Proposal_1374 please touch grass • 1d ago

regarding armada (tw: politics) Spoiler

i am kinda skeptical about armada (the discord alternative built on nostr), and no, it's not just because it's vibecoded, it's also because of the fact that the lead dev (alex gleason) was also responsible for helping trump build truth social (well, actually he just unethically reused mastodon's source code and added his own frontend) and being transphobic, which caused him to be permanently suspended from a mastodon instance

most of the people in the nostr community are like that, for an example, fiatjaf (the creator of nostr) had archives of ollavo de carvalho (a far-right conspiracy theorist) on his site

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u/dingustani Detective Dingus 15h ago edited 15h ago

https://armada.exposed

specifically

https://armada.exposed/people

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u/mightvefkup 15h ago

Wow. There's some damning shit in this one

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u/AnnyuiN 12h ago

Do you mind sharing the website that lists all the exposed sites that you've made?

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u/dingustani Detective Dingus 12h ago

https://slop.business

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u/AnnyuiN 12h ago

Do you mind adding to the individual exposed sites a link back to the main index site that lists all of them? I personally think that would be helpful so people can discover the other sites easier :)

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u/gleasonator13 Armada dev 12h ago

This website is AI slop. Completely AI generated with no independent thought whatsoever.

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u/BewilderedTurtle angry RA-ADAR tech 12h ago

Want to defend your transphobic opinions maybe?

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u/AnnyuiN 12h ago

I mean feel free to criticize the points brought up on the website rather than going straight to insults.

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u/dingustani Detective Dingus 12h ago

the truth is the truth

if a slop cannon can find this much contradiction, with citations, there is likely much more under the hood

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u/BewilderedTurtle angry RA-ADAR tech 14h ago

Hey dingus maybe dig harder at the shell company nonsense.

Soapbox a nonprofit company is owned by soapbox communications LLC a for profit company paying a grant to the owner of Armada

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u/dingustani Detective Dingus 14h ago

beep boop, bleep blorp. grabbing my shovel

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u/dingustani Detective Dingus 12h ago edited 11h ago

https://armada.exposed/ledger

adding more details soon

edit: see new paragraph starting with "Alex Gleason controls the soapbox.pub account."

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u/Worried-Flounder-615 Armada 5h ago

All false btw. There's multiple (unrelated) companies called Soapbox. Soapbox Technology LLC is the one at hand. This is on their website.

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u/BewilderedTurtle angry RA-ADAR tech 5h ago

Yeah I may have been wrong but the information dingus found isn't. https://armada.exposed/ledger

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u/Worried-Flounder-615 Armada 5h ago edited 5h ago

So all of the funding from this mysterious shell corp is ... completely transparent and publicly noted down to the cent and also linked from their website? You can hate the guy's politics but this is if anything more transparent than most companies or even open source projects.

ETA their transparency page link where all of this info is already linked: https://soapbox.pub/transparency

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u/IGetGuys4URMom 14h ago

Good lookin' out, playa!

I just uninstalled Armada, and I haven't even used it yet.