Terms of Service

1. The Agreement

By accessing Sojorn ("the Service"), you acknowledge that you are entering a space dedicated to respect, safety, and progressive action. These Terms of Service constitute a binding agreement between you and MPLS LLC. We prioritize the safety of our community above all else.

2. Zero Tolerance Policy

We do not tolerate intolerance. Hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and fascist ideologies are strictly prohibited. Violations will result in immediate and permanent account suspension.

3. No Misinformation

We reject the spread of verifiable falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and coordinated disinformation campaigns. Posting content designed to deceive or manipulate will result in account termination.

4. Content Ownership and Sanctuary

This section replaces the broad content licenses found in conventional social media Terms of Service. We believe your work belongs to you — always.

4.1 Ownership

You retain 100% copyright and all intellectual property rights to every piece of content you create on Sojorn. We claim no ownership over your words, images, audio, video, or any other creative work.

4.2 Limited Technical License

By posting content, you grant MPLS LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license solely for the technical purpose of hosting, displaying, and transmitting your content to the audience you designate within Sojorn.

4.3 Immediate Revocation

This technical license expires immediately and irrevocably upon deletion of the content by you. We do not retain shadow copies, hidden archives, or "soft-deleted" records.

4.4 Anti-Extraction Covenant

MPLS LLC will never use your content to train AI models, sell your content to third parties, mine your content for advertising profiles, or index your content on public search engines without your explicit opt-in.

4.5 Right to Livelihood

If MPLS LLC ever wishes to use your content for promotional purposes, we must contact you directly, offer financial compensation, and receive your explicit written consent. No blanket consent is granted by agreeing to these Terms.

5. Your Right to Vanish

You have the absolute right to delete your account and all associated data at any time. When you leave, you leave. We perform hard deletes — your profile, posts, comments, media files, and metadata are permanently removed from our systems.

6. End-to-End Encryption

Private messages and encrypted capsule content are protected by end-to-end encryption (E2EE) using keys generated on your device. MPLS LLC has no ability to decrypt, read, or access this content.

7. AI Moderation Transparency

We use artificial intelligence to assist with content moderation. This AI moderation operates only on public content, does not analyze private encrypted messages, is subject to human review, and provides a full audit trail. You may appeal any AI moderation decision through our in-app appeal process.

8. Community Safety Beacons

Sojorn includes a community safety feature ("Beacons") that allows users to report real-world safety incidents with location data. Location data is not stored permanently and is not sold to third parties.

9. Age Requirement

You must be at least 16 years of age to use Sojorn.

10. Liability

MPLS LLC provides this Service "as is." We are not liable for interactions that occur between users, though we commit to active moderation to maintain community safety.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, United States.

12. Changes to These Terms

We will notify registered users via email and in-app notification of any material changes to these Terms at least 30 days before they take effect.

13. Open Source Licensing

Sojorn's source code is published under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). The complete source code is publicly available. Anyone may inspect, modify, and redistribute the code. Any modified version made available over a network must also share its source code under the same license. Our source code repository is hosted at gitlab.com/patrickbritton3/sojorn.

14. Contact

For questions about these Terms: legal@mp.ls.