This notice is also being sent by email to all users with a verified email on Pawb Social services. (Completed as of 02/13/2025)
UPDATE (02/13/2025)
ℹ️ If you received the “Important - Pawb.Social is re-structuring as an LLC!” email from us about an account you don’t recognize, or no longer wish to have, on our services and would like the account deleted:
Please email network@pawb.social from the SAME email address, and we’ll be able to lookup your accounts and remove them.
If your account has any content, we will issue a backup to the email on file and wait 7 days before deleting the account, unless you ask us to delete it immediately after we inform you that content exists.
Begin Original Post
As of Friday, February 14th, we will be transitioning the management and ownership of our instances to PawbSocial LLC, a new limited liability company (LLC) registered in the State of Colorado.
This change is primarily driven by the desire to ensure legal protection and mitigate liability concerns in light of the current political climate, but has been a task we would have eventually needed to face as Pawb Social grows.
What does this mean?
There will be no changes to the team running any of our instances, and PawbSocial LLC will continue to be owned and operated by Crashdoom.
Donations will now be made to PawbSocial LLC, though there should be no changes necessary to existing donations. PayPal donations via Ko-fi going forward (one-time or recurring) will show PawbSocial LLC instead of “Pawb.Social”.
Existing assets and hardware bought for Pawb.Social using donations will be transferred to PawbSocial LLC’s ownership.
Our contact information remains the same: You can contact the Network Admin team by email at network@pawb.social.
We felt it important to inform all of our users of this change despite there being no change in leadership or effective ownership as a show of good faith and transparency.
We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we take these steps to ensure the long-term stability and security of our community.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
Crashdoom
Owner / Network Admin, PawbSocial LLC
Yeah, I have to admit, I spent a while trying to workshop how to make it sound less ominous and I’m really sorry I failed in that; Definitely something for me to work on in the future, and I apologize for it coming across rather legal and scary.
Try not to beat yourself up, it sounds like you gave it earnest thought and didn’t want to give any wrong impressions. For what it’s worth the post body was fine, the header just doesn’t give specifics of the ‘org change’, so it gave me that ominous feel. I know you can’t shove a whole post in a header, but I think there are avenues to add some cushion. Some ideas I have if you’re sending more posts en masse:
More specific
“We’re becoming an LLC for legal protections”
“To keep our servers legally safer, we’re becoming an LLC”
More vague
“Minor changes to keep our servers going in uncertain times”
“Recent server updates (transparency report)”