Got anxious for a sec there reading the headline, but I'm glad you're taking steps to ensure legal safety. I am not versed in how LLCs work at all, but I appreciate the transparency and continued fervor to hosting these services for us. Thank you as always, for being a part of this movement and hosting free software for so many others to enjoy.
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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)"
@crashdoom surprised you didn't do it sooner tbh, a friend of mine opened up a llc for this very reason for his online projects
Yeah, it's been on my plate for a while, and honestly I really should have
Nice! Good choice for the state!
Good plan, do what you have to do to legally protect yourself. And as always thank you for all the hard work you put into everything ❤️
So out of interest, why would you need that layer of legal protection? Is it related to talk of the US banning porn?
Yes, several US states along with other nations have been considering porn ban laws, along with the rather blatant anti-LGBTQ stance of the currently elected US party.
Do you reckon they'd actually act on it? I guess it's better to have the protection just in case.
(That said there have been some insanely stupid decisions made recently by the US president and his sycophants)
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. ;_;
Changes like these can be a lot, but hoping everything goes smoothly for the Pawb.Social community!
Also, if you run a business, a quick heads-up—the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) now requires reporting to FinCEN, and missing it could mean fines. Stay compliant easily at Corporate Transparency Act.
Hijacking! Is pixelfed instance still on the works, or has it been shelved?
In the works! We're planning to have some info very soon, though we're still building out an improvement for the NAS to allow us to expand the storage capacity for long term, high size file storage specifically for Pixelfed!
To add to this a bit: I am planning on using AutoTier from 45Drives to get tiered storage for pixelfed.
New stuff on high endurance SSDs, and old pics end up on spinning rust. This would end up being ~10TB of SSD and ~50TB of HDD
Only blocker is getting the time to really test it and make sure everyone’s data doesn’t get blackholed. Our home situation has been really challenging for the last ~6 months due to personal reasons.
@crashdoom What was the structure before?
Previously, we were just operating under myself as a sole proprietor. I hadn't formalized things as I hadn't expected the big growth, but we're big enough to justify it to ensure the long-term security of all of our instances, as well as my own personal protection against the changing political climate.