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Why we built SOCIAL
Social networks broke when they decided your attention was the product. Engagement algorithms reward outrage. Bots flood every platform. Ads require harvesting everything you do. We built SOCIAL on a different premise: give people a genuinely good experience, and let the community govern itself.
We keep the lights on without selling your data, and there are real consequences to being a jerk — getting banned means losing your account.
Philosophy
Accountability. Everyone here is a real person who chose to be here, and bad behavior has real consequences. That keeps the quality of conversation high.
No algorithmic amplification. We do not sort by controversy, outrage, or engagement score. Feeds are chronological. You follow people and hashtags; what they post is what you see.
Contained politics. Political content belongs in /s/politics. Everywhere else, it's off-topic by design. Communities stay focused on what they were created for.
Your data is not for sale. No advertisers. No third-party data brokers. No tracking pixels.
Security and privacy, first
Security here isn't a settings page you have to go find — it's on by default, for everyone, everywhere. Your account, your conversations, and your inbox are protected by the same standards security teams insist on, without you lifting a finger.
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Everything you store — posts, messages, email, and files — is encrypted with AES-256 while it sits on disk, and protected with TLS every time it moves across the network. A stolen drive is unreadable noise.
Passwords that can't be unscrambled. We never store your password. It's protected with a modern memory-hard algorithm (Argon2id) plus a server-side secret, so even in a worst-case breach there's nothing usable to take. New passwords are checked against known-breached lists and rejected if they've leaked before.
Two-factor by default. Every account is protected by an authenticator-app second factor — required, not optional. One-time codes can't be replayed, and changing your password instantly signs out every other device.
Built to shrug off abuse. Bot challenges, strict rate limits, disposable-email blocking, and reserved-name protection keep spammers and impersonators out before they ever reach you.
Hardened in your browser. Strict content-security and transport rules, clickjacking protection, and zero third-party tracking scripts mean the pages you load can't be hijacked to run someone else's code.
Your inbox, defended. Incoming mail is screened for spam and phishing, every attachment and image is scanned and sanitized before it's stored, and links shared in live chat are checked against known threats.
We keep less of you. Live chat is ephemeral and clears itself automatically, and we collect only what the service needs to run. No ads, no trackers, no data brokers — your attention isn't the product.
Email included — you@svpn.com + 25GB storage
Your SOCIAL username is your email address. Every member gets a full inbox at <username>@svpn.com — send and receive real email, no extra charge, no separate signup.
member stack
What you get
Membership covers the social network, private messaging, live rooms, and a real email inbox under one account.
Privacy first
No ads, no tracking pixels, and no selling your data. Your attention is not the product.
Your own @svpn.com inbox
Every member gets a real email address — you@svpn.com. Send and receive from anywhere. Your IP address never appears in outgoing mail headers.
Real communities
Create or join communities around specific interests. One community per member during beta — so people build things they actually care about.
Hashtag follows
Follow tags across all communities. Surface the conversations that matter to you without subscribing to every community individually.
Live rooms
Ephemeral chat rooms tied to communities. Messages disappear after 13 hours and 37 minutes. Real conversation, no permanent record.
Live radio
Stream a small set of low-key live music channels while you browse. The compact player stays with you as you move around the app.
Private messaging
End-to-end encrypted direct messages. We store ciphertext and metadata, not plaintext message bodies. You control who can reach you. More on this below.
Encrypted voice messaging
Record a voice note in a chat and it's end-to-end encrypted too. The audio is encrypted in your browser before upload; we store only the ciphertext, and the key travels inside the same encrypted channel as your messages.
Themes
Tune the interface to your taste with themes, accent colors, and background choices. It stays compact, readable, and yours.
Explore
Full-text search across posts, users, and communities. Discover content by keyword, browse trending tags, or find members to follow — all from one place.
Saved posts
Bookmark any post to revisit later. Your saved collection is private and syncs across devices.
Bluesky crossposting
Connect your Bluesky account and mirror your posts to the wider network — automatically with every post, or manually one at a time. Linking uses Bluesky's official sign-in, it's revocable anytime, and we never touch your DMs or account settings.
Transparent moderation
Community owners moderate their own spaces. Site-wide rules are narrow and written down. No shadow-banning, no secret scoring.
No ragebait
No quote-posting designed to mob people. No sorting by report count or controversy. The feed is calm by architecture, not by whack-a-mole moderation.
Desktop view
Wide-display members get a dedicated three-column layout at web.svpn.com with a live news panel alongside the social feed. HOT, LATEST, and RANKED tabs surface trending stories in real time. Panels are drag-and-drop reorderable and preferences sync across devices.
Private messaging, actually private
When you send a direct message on SOCIAL, the message body is encrypted in your browser before it leaves your device. The server stores encrypted envelopes and delivery metadata such as participants, device IDs, timestamps, and delivery state, but it does not receive plaintext message bodies.
Messages are decrypted only on sender and recipient devices that hold the local private keys. We can produce stored ciphertext and metadata if legally required; we cannot decrypt message bodies without device keys we do not have.
Private keys and ratchet state are stored in that browser's localStorage and are not sent to the server. If you lose access to your device or clear browser storage, old messages on that device are gone — that is the trade-off for browser-local E2EE.
You control who can message you: everyone, people you follow, or no one.
Technical specification
For the security-conscious. Wire version: v2 algorithm: P256-X3DH-DR-HKDF-SHA256-AES256-GCM
The implementation uses a browser WebCrypto X3DH-style handshake and Double Ratchet-style session ratchet to encrypt message bodies with per-message keys. It has skipped-message-key handling for out-of-order delivery and uses no third-party crypto library. Messages expose per-device safety numbers that users can compare out of band. Until users compare and mark those numbers verified, initial device-key discovery still depends on the server returning the correct public keys.
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