Varanda
Your First Kickflip, Part 117:30
Bia Santos
Interests
- Skateboarding
- Photography Club
- Music
Privacy
- Profile
- Private
- Phone Number
- Hidden
- Secret Chats
- End-to-End Encrypted
Sovereign Social Media on National Infrastructure
Channels, communities, family chats, photos, video and voice for a whole country, run by a national operator on servers at home, under its own brand and its own rules.
- 1,000+
- Messages per Second
- 20+
- Interface Languages
- 6
- Client Platforms
Throughput from one confidential government deployment, which we do not name.
Overview
A Country’s Public Conversation, Hosted at Home
Families, schools, clubs, creators and public institutions talk every day in chats and channels. When that happens on networks run from abroad, the photos, videos and contact lists of a whole population sit on infrastructure the country does not operate, under terms it did not write.
Sover lets a national operator run its own public messenger: channels, groups, direct chats, voice and video, on servers in the country, released under a national brand. Which content rules apply, and how foreign services are treated, stay decisions the country takes under its own law.
Why Sover
A National Network, Not a Foreign Service
Global social networks and public messengers are services their providers host and run for everyone. Sover is software a national operator runs for its own country.
| Global Social Networks | Public Messengers | Sover | |
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| Where the Data Lives | On the provider’s servers, in the locations the provider chooses. | On the provider’s servers, under the provider’s terms. | On servers in your country, run by the national operator or a trusted in-country provider. |
| Whose Rules Apply | Community rules written by the provider for all its users worldwide. | Terms of service written by the provider. | The operator sets the policy under national law; channel and group owners moderate their own spaces. |
| Whose Brand Users See | The provider’s app and brand. | The provider’s app and brand. | Rebrandable apps for Android, iOS, the web, Windows, macOS and Linux, released under the operator’s name. Custom Branding |
| Who Builds the Services | The provider decides which services exist and who may offer them. | The provider’s own features and partner terms. | National institutions, creators and businesses build bots and services on the Bot API with 50+ REST methods. |
| How It Connects to Government | Through the provider’s public pages and advertising tools. | Through the provider’s business interfaces. | Through federation with government instances, each side limiting what crosses, for example message forwarding or contact sharing. |
Compared by category of service; individual services differ, so evaluate each against your requirements.
Use Cases
Everything People Share, on One National Network
- Messaging & Channels
Channels, Groups and Chats
Broadcast channels with optional comments, open and closed groups, and direct chats with photos, videos, voice messages, polls, stickers and GIFs.
- Video Conferencing
Calls with Family and Friends
One-to-one and group voice and video calls, and video meetings for clubs, schools and communities.
- Video Library
Video for Creators and Institutions
Video posts in channels and groups, with in-app previews. A video library for longer content is scoped with each deployment.
- AI Agents & Assistants
Moderation with AI Agents
Owners and admins remove comments and members. An agent appointed as administrator can do the same through the Bot API, under the operator’s policy.
- Integrations & APIs
Services on the Bot API
Official bots, creator tools and citizen services that institutions and businesses build on the Bot API and connect to their own systems.
- Custom Branding
Under a National Brand
The apps carry the operator’s name and identity; the source code can be licensed by agreement.
What a National Operator Can Build for Social Media
Illustrative chats from Olinda, Brazil. Varanda, its people, creators and messages are fictional; feeds and services shown are examples a national operator could build.
Varanda is a fictional national network drawn for this example. It is not a real service or a Sover customer.
One Person’s Network
Meet Bia: Skateboarding, Photos and Family
Bia Santos is 16 and lives in Olinda. Her network is the people and clubs she chooses, with privacy settings that start closed.
Her Circles
A family group with her parents and grandmother, the skate crew, the school photography club and a direct chat with her best friend, each with its own members.
What She Follows
A skateboarding creator’s channel: video lessons, meetup notices and comments that the creator and her moderator bot keep kind.
How She Stays Safe
Only her contacts and earlier chat partners can find her profile in search, her phone number is hidden, and group owners and admins remove what breaks the rules.
Bia, her family, friends, school and the creator she follows are fictional. Age rules, such as a minimum age or parental consent, are the operator’s policy.
Built by the Operator
What Sover Provides, and What the Operator Builds
Sover provides the messenger: channels, groups, direct chats, media, calls, bots and administration. A national network adds its own services on top, designed with its partners.
Official Channels
Broadcast channels for ministries, cities and public media, run by the institutions themselves. The operator decides who may run an official channel.
Creator Programs
How creators are verified, promoted or supported is the operator’s program, built with its partners on the Bot API.
Feeds and Discovery
A news feed, stories or recommendations are not Sover features. An operator can build them in its own apps, for example under a source-code license.
Services and Payments
Citizen services, payments and commerce come from national providers and need their own design and integrations.
Deployment
Shared Instances for Citizens, Federated with Government
A national operator runs Sover on servers in the country, in its own data center or with a trusted in-country provider. For citizens and small businesses it runs scalable shared instances, sized for the population it serves.
In a national federation, for example, those shared instances sit beside the dedicated instances of ministries and city governments and the high-security instances of defense and national police. Each organization controls its own instance and can limit what crosses, for example disabling message forwarding or contact sharing while allowing messages and calls.
On-Premises
Bare metal in the operator’s data center, with the Sover Private Cloud included as one installable product.
Deployment OptionsFederated Network
Open or closed federation with the instances the operator approves, under per-user and per-group policies.
Federated NetworkSecurity Controls
Two-factor authentication, role-based access, device and session management, and administrative audit logging.
Security & ComplianceIncluded
What Is Included, and Where the Limits Are
Included
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The messenger. Direct chats, open and closed groups, and broadcast channels with optional comments.
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Media. Images, video messages, voice messages, files, polls, stickers and GIFs, with in-app previews.
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Calls. One-to-one and group voice and video calls, and video meetings.
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Moderation tools. Owners and admins of groups and channels manage members and comments; agents can act as appointed administrators through the Bot API.
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Your brand. Rebrandable apps for Android, iOS, the web, Windows, macOS and Linux, in 20+ interface languages.
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Your hosting. Three deployment options in one model, with the Sover Private Cloud included.
Stated Limits
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Enrollment is designed per project. Open self-registration for the public is not part of the current release; how citizens join follows the operator’s registration policy.
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Feeds are operator-built. News feeds, stories, recommendations and creator payouts are not Sover features.
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Content policy is the operator’s. Content rules, age rules and the treatment of foreign services are decisions the country takes under its own law.
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End-to-end means secret chats. Standard chats use transit, at-rest and payload encryption; the end-to-end claim covers secret chats.
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Video library scope per deployment. Video posts work in chats and channels; a library for long-form video is scoped and confirmed for each deployment.
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Mobile push uses platform services. Push notifications to phones are delivered through the Apple, Google or Huawei notification services.
Beyond Social Media
One National Platform, Many Applications
The network that carries a country’s public conversation can extend, on the same platform or through federated instances, to the applications below.
Government Agencies
Ministries and agencies collaborate on their own instances and federate with the partners they approve.
Learn MoreE-Government Services
Official channels and service bots a national operator builds on the Bot API, in the messenger citizens already use.
Learn MoreLaw Enforcement
A national police force can run a high-security instance of its own and open only the exchanges it approves.
Learn MoreFirst Responders & Alerts
Broadcast channels and operational bot notifications for the teams that respond, with IREX alarm notifications where IREX runs.
Learn MoreFinancial Services
Regulated institutions keep communications on infrastructure they operate, with role-based access and audit logging.
Learn MoreHealthcare
Messaging and video meetings for clinical and administrative teams, hosted where the organization decides.
Learn MoreCritical Infrastructure
Separately hosted operators keep their own instances and connect them where they need controlled communication.
Learn MorePlanning a National Network?
Contact Sales
Tell us about your country and your operator, and we will arrange a briefing for your team.
Can a national operator provide services to citizens and small businesses?
An operator can design a service around shared instances connected to other instances under its policies. This is an operator-run deployment model, not a promise that Sover itself is a public cloud service.
Can a national operator build citizen services around Sover?
Sover can be part of an operator-run communication service. Functions such as payments, e-wallets, or commerce need their own service design and integrations; they should not be assumed to be built-in Sover capabilities.
What is the difference between a group and a channel?
A group supports conversation among its participants. A broadcast channel is suited to announcements, with optional comments controlled by the channel owner.
What kinds of messages can I send in Sover?
Sover supports text, files, images, voice messages, video messages, polls, stickers, and animated GIFs. You can use direct conversations, group chats, and broadcast channels for different kinds of communication.
Can I share documents and media in a conversation?
Yes. Sover supports file and media sharing with in-app previews for supported formats. Upload limits and preview behavior depend on the deployment and client, so check large-file and specialist-format requirements during evaluation.
Does Sover offer end-to-end encryption?
Yes. Sover offers end-to-end encrypted secret chats for sensitive private conversations. Standard chats have a different security model, including transport, at-rest, and payload-encryption controls; the secret-chat claim should not be extended to every conversation or integration.
Can anyone register for our organization's Sover environment?
Access follows the organization's registration and account policies. The application FAQ describes registration for employees of authorized organizations, so downloading the application alone does not grant access to an organization's environment.
Can Sover use our organization's branding?
Yes. Sover is rebrandable, so an organization can discuss a deployment under its own identity. The branding scope, application distribution, and delivery responsibilities are agreed for the project.
Does federation mean all data stays on its original server?
Do not assume that federation prevents information from reaching another participating instance. Data exchange, local copies, contact information, and treatment of historical content need to be assessed as part of the federation design.
Is Sover available in multiple languages?
Yes. Sover supports interface localization in more than 20 languages. Confirm the languages and client versions required by your users during deployment planning.