Sources

Checked 7 October 2026. If a page moves, the quote on this site is the quote as fetched that week. The live bundle was https://armada.buzz/ with build stamp 2026-10-07 14:28:02Z. Scripts named below were the ones that HTML loaded.

The live site

• https://armada.buzz/. HTML, content-security policy, Onion-Location, build meta, and the /_npanel/errors.js and /_npanel/script.js tags.
• /_npanel/script.js. Plausible init for domain armada.buzz, endpoint /_npanel/api/event, page URL taken from location.href.
• /_npanel/errors.js. Error reporter, endpoint /_npanel/api/report, breadcrumb of clicks, navigations, and fetches, nsec scrubber.
• /assets/platform-BwrAzseL.js. Relay, voice, bridge, link-preview, and push defaults. The filename hash will change on the next deploy. The fallbacks are quoted on The client.
• /assets/useAppContext-DTYTe5I0.js. Blossom server fallbacks.
• /assets/index-tXLbua7a.js. Login setItem path: localStorage.setItem on the web.
• /assets/PrivacyPolicyPage-C-EbCK_L.js. Policy text, last updated 11 July 2026, including the analytics branch.
• /assets/TermsPage-B4cS0GAg.js. Terms, last updated 28 August 2026.
• /assets/DiscordImportPage-BvAtuavF.js. Bridge admin role and the plaintext-mirror consent line.
• /assets/DiscoverPage-DcukJX3U.js. "An encrypted community that runs without a server."

Soapbox's own writing

• Armada: The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative, M. K. Fain, 22 July 2026.
• The Best Discord Alternatives in 2026, Compared, M. K. Fain, 30 July 2026. The chart, the "technically impossible" line, the Android-push line, the bounty sentence.
• How to Self-host Armada, Derek Ross, 30 July 2026. The three hosted pieces, AUTH_KINDS, the iOS email line, the "no asterisk" line.
• Building an Armada, on Concord and the move off Signal.
• Use Buzz on Your Phone, M. K. Fain, 22 July 2026. A Buzz workspace is one relay.
• How to Migrate Your Discord Server to Armada, M. K. Fain, 4 August 2026.
• Announcing Henhouse, M. K. Fain, 17 June 2024.
• Mostr Bridge Updates, Alex Gleason, 19 July 2026. The bridge holds derived keys.
• Soapbox Awarded Grant by OpenSats, Alex Gleason, 17 July 2023.
• Funding transparency.
• Media kit. Titles, Truth Social, Spinster, the timeline.
• soapbox.pub. "Owned by no company. Not even ours." Operates relay.ditto.pub.
• Soapbox 3.0 release note, 25 December 2022, Gab UI fork and Truth Social. Indexed on soapbox.pub/blog and on the author page for Alex Gleason. The direct post URL returns the site shell.

The repository

• gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada, read-only mirror. README defaults, AGPL text, Soapbox Technology LLC app-store permission. Project last activity observed 29 September 2026.
• src/lib/secureStorage.ts. "plain localStorage on the web."
• src/lib/platform.ts. Link-preview comment: the proxy "sees every previewed URL."
• src/lib/plausibleUrl.ts. The URL sanitizer in the app. The host script sends location.href and skips it.
• src/pages/PrivacyPolicyPage.tsx and src/components/PersistentVoiceRoom.tsx. NIP-29 voice, "no media E2EE."
• src/sw/worker.ts. Decrypt key stored for nsec web push.
• AGENTS.md. "no baked-in servers," voice default https://armada.buzz, no Google Play Services on Android, image loads reveal the viewer's IP unless a proxy is on, iOS team id.
• CHANGELOG.md. 0.55.2 share-intent note and the filename fix. The copy quoted here matches the changelog as published on the project's git host in August 2026.
• Concord CORD-07. Voice media is specified as end-to-end encrypted. The client implements that for Concord. NIP-29 voice is the relay-trusted path.
• Commit f671e4c3, "I am BDFL, not CEO," Alex Gleason, 1 January 2026.

Filings, press, and discussion

• USPTO serial 99824668, SOAPBOX, Soapbox Technology, LLC, filed 14 May 2026, Watertown, SD.
• Reuters, 17 July 2023. Gleason resigned as head of engineering at Truth Social. Hired January 2022. Soapbox was the front end.
• Citadel Dispatch 164, 13 June 2025. Gleason: "on Donald Trump's social media team," Soapbox under the Truth Social interface, "the Donald Trump version of Mastodon."
• "Pleroma is dead," Alex Gleason, 5 August 2022. "This is, of course, because I'm a transphobe." Spinster at about 20,000 users.
• "Fired For Feminism," M. K. Fain, 19 December 2019. The Promptworks termination letter, the non-binary essay, then Spinster and 4W.
• OpenSats, 29 August 2024, long-term support grant.
• Hacker News item 49873048. Gleason's "this part by hand." The default-relay comment is by user coldblues.
• r/DiscordAlternatives, 22 July 2026, "Has anyone used Armada?" Team reply on ciphertext and self-hosting.
• r/DiscordAlternatives, 7 October 2026, "regarding armada (tw: politics)," by North_Proposal_1374. Points at Gleason's essay and the Todon.nl ban. A reply names Chad as lead developer.
• "Why I don't support transgender ideology," Alex Gleason, on his blog by April 2019. Archive capture 31 March 2023.
• "Mastodon deplatformed me, but they don't want me using Gab either," Alex Gleason. Archive capture 30 March 2023. Todon.nl deletion, 19 April 2019. "Literal Nazis," the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting link, "Blocking Gab promotes extremism," and "I'm still not a Nazi."
• site.olavo.fiatjaf.com, a homepage of Olavo de Carvalho's writings on a fiatjaf.com host. fiatjaf is the Nostr protocol author, not an Armada developer.
• Gleason's BDFL note, 1 January 2026.
• Gleason, 1 October 2026. He prompted a SolidJS port of Armada and wrote that he was not shipping it.
• marykatefain.com. spinster.xyz. henhouse.social.

Left out on purpose

• Ages, birth dates, and family details.
• Automated trust-score pages that flag a young domain. A scanner score is outside what this site uses.
• Soapbox LLC of Marietta, Georgia. That name shows up in SEC filings for different people. The Armada notice and the trademark are Soapbox Technology, LLC, of Watertown, South Dakota.