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title: "About"
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**data.coop** is an association and a cooperative.

We - the members of the cooperative - own our own data.

In practice, this means that we:

 * Own our own hardware
 * We only use Open Source Software

The cooperative owns 2 rack services, of which one of them is currently in use.

You can find us here:

 * Matrix: [#data.coop:data.coop](https://matrix.to/#/#data.coop:data.coop)
 * IRC (Libera.chat): #data.coop
 * Our [Gitea server](https://git.data.coop/data.coop/)
 * In the Fediverse/Mastodon: <a rel="me" href="https://social.data.coop/@datacoop">@datacoop@data.coop</a>