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.
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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
Honestly, like you said, I genuinely have no idea what the US will do; Currently things are being so shaken up that anything is plausible right now.
For outside the US, I don’t really know what reach other countries have. The UK’s Online Safety Act is the current one I’m watching for since that would require “highly effective age assurance” which… if the folks writing the law had been online like, ever, they’ll have realized is an utterly stupid statement unless they plan to enforce integrating ID Verification via a Credit Agency (Experian, Equifax) which does personal question-based verification (which imo is a huge breach of user privacy since while WE might not know who you are still, the credit agency does and where you signed up).
I’m in the UK and that bill has caused me so much stress and anxiety. ;_;