Minds is a social networking platform that describes itself as open source, encrypted and reward-based. Users sign up to post and follow other accounts, and the company also offers a service to launch a custom social app for web, iOS and Android. The source code is published on GitHub under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3), which allows it to be inspected, modified and run under the licence terms. The main service is a hosted platform on the web.
Minds is headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States, and is therefore a US company outside the EU and EEA. Where the hosted service stores data is not publicly documented, so the privacy terms should be checked directly with the provider. For a European organisation, the open-source licence is relevant because the code can be audited and run independently of the vendor. The hosted service itself, however, is operated from the United States.