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⚠️ Privacy is a basic human right.
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• Private & Encrypted Messenger App
• Open-Source & Free-to-Use
• Built on Nostr

◤◢ Privacy by Principle ◤◢

Vector is a decentralized communication platform built on the Nostr Protocol, offering no-compromise encryption with zero metadata leakage and plausible deniability for all content, including texts, media, voice notes, and files, adhering to the NIP-17 standard. It natively integrates BIP-39, allowing every Vector account to function as a crypto wallet and vice versa, streamlining tasks like address sharing and payments through compatibility with native wallets like MPW. Vector leverages local, private, device-powered AI to provide practical features such as voice message transcription, language translation, and meme gif search via a decentralized relay-based index. Its resilience is ensured by community-run Nostr relays, eliminating downtime, and its fully open-source codebase—from infrastructure to protocol specs—avoids proprietary lock-in, making it unkillable and transparent.

Open-source technology developed by Formless Labs.

Relays (7)
  • wss://nostr.lol – read
  • wss://nostr.mom – write
  • wss://nostr.wine – read
  • wss://nostrelites.org – read
  • wss://relay.damus.io – write
  • wss://wot.nostr.net – read
  • wss://asia.vectorapp.io/nostr – read & write

Recent Notes

Gzuuus · 3d
Rev.1 of "Private communications over public infrastructure" is up. Hey everyone! How’s it going? I’m introducing Rev.1 of my article "Private communications over public infrastructure." The firs...
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Great coverage and thanks for highlighting Privacy Protocols in general, great way for people and developers to learn of new and different means that offer different use cases and pros/cons towards the model they are building. Rarely ever is there a one-size-fits-all approach and we discovered that personally in our journey, which is why we ended up developing Concord Protocol. It gives us the privacy, security, speed, and scalability we need in our mission to create large-scale communities and for your average person to replace their enshittified messenger app with Vector, a nice little trojan horse to Nostr. Though it does come with its own limitations like forward secrecy as you covered in your infographic and table.

After the next Vector v0.4.1 release, we will organize some more information, documents, and graphics to share a 2 part blog for your average person and developers about Concord Protocol.

Thanks again for the spotlight, we look forward to more adoption and also some more global contributors joining the repo and development. 💚
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We have finally arrived at the point where we can consider Vector at an MVP state. More or less it was touched upon with v0.4.0, but v0.4.1 will be the baseline moving forward. It only took a year and a half of development, but wouldn't have made it this far without you all.

The next version will patch just about every issue, bug, and request we've heard from the community, other than an iOS release (planned Q3-Q4) and we will open up testing shortly for our community and anyone else who would like to get involved.
Gzuuus · 1d
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvy5gaeftshz9kskduyvjhpunmhpstfcg55wlg69at85kh29v3rysppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqs9eep0ll6hurjkl3sc2fewgses07mjfwxsdcu3at2m8fd0xrdz3klfjms nostr: nevent1qqsvy5gaeftshz9kskduyvjhpunmhpstfcg55wlg69at85kh29v3rysppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqs9eep0ll6hurjkl3sc2fewgses07mjfwx...
Name Redacted · 3d
This link worked immediately
Imaginaero · 3d
The DarkMatter distribution’s selection criteria for this particular node suggests a prioritization of temporal stability metrics – an interesting signal given current network volatility.
Gzuuus · 3d
Hey great I think it'll be ready today or tomorrow. And well marmot was already covered. This v2 doesn't change privacy assumptions at first look. I'll take a deeper look to understand if I need to update that section 👌
Gzuuus · 2d
Article is released 👌
Name Redacted · 3d
Its saying that the invite isn't valid fyi