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A lot of servers on the fedi self-host various open-source softwares that enable federated communication. Mastodon is such a free and open source software that uses the ActivityPub protocol for inter-instance and intra-instance communication.
A lot of servers on the fedi self-host various open-source softwares that enable federated communication. Mastodon is such a free and open source software that uses the ActivityPub protocol for inter-instance and intra-instance communication.
===Which software is neuromatch.social running on its instance?===
===Which software is neuromatch.social running on its instance?===
We are currently running [https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/ glitch-soc] which is a friendly fork of Mastodon.
We are currently running [https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon a fork] of [https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/ glitch-soc] which is a friendly fork of Mastodon.
 
===How is my data protected on neuromatch.social?===
===How is my data protected on neuromatch.social?===
Disclaimer - while our node provider (Linode) takes daily and weekly backups of everything on our server, we cannot guarantee that data backup in case the node provider itself goes down.  
Disclaimer - while our node provider (Linode) takes daily and weekly backups of everything on our server, we cannot guarantee that data backup in case the node provider itself goes down.