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Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:26PM

Social Coop is a company that claims to have acquired three Mastodon servers???

RH Richard Hull Public Seen by 238

Anyone seen this claim? I assume The Social Coop Limited is nothing to do with social.coop???

https://masknetwork.medium.com/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-net-one-of-the-largest-mastodon-instances-5273504ba92d

JG

Jamie Gaehring Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:41PM

Hmm, looks like a shell company in the Caymen Islands?

via http://www.russel.co.jp/releases_20221221.html (translated)

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jonny Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:51PM

how did you find this omg and how is this the only public documentation of this thing

JG

Jamie Gaehring Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:55PM

pawoo.net linked to Russell Co's site. Mask has a ton of entities, it looks like. Dimension seems to be a holding company for several related entities as well. And I found this interesting repo:

https://github.com/DimensionDev/SocialCollectiveTokens

BM

Boris Mann Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:42PM

Uggh. Mask Network is about encrypted text as an overlay. And yeah, I guess their company name is The Social Coop Limited. We should ask them to change their name....

JG

Jamie Gaehring Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:47PM

Yea, I dunno if we have trademark or anything, but there's typically an obligation to address any possible infringements in order to maintain the legal protections of such a trademark.

Also just saw this too:

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/12/21/encrypted-messaging-protocol-mask-network-acquires-mastodon-server-pawoonet/

RH

Richard Hull Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:47PM

Suji Yan is not only Chairman of The Social Coop Limited, they are also founder of The Mask Network https://twitter.com/suji_yan

And according to a reply to Chris Trottier, aslo admin of Mastodon.cloud https://social.coop/@[email protected]/109552937135944360

JG

Jamie Gaehring Wed 21 Dec 2022 7:00PM

Yea, also found this:

Via https://dimension.im/, which appears to be a holding company for Mask, among others. Like layers of some insane onion.

RH

Richard Hull Wed 21 Dec 2022 7:03PM

Yes, the multiple layers and linkages is typical of crypto stuff

RH

Richard Hull Wed 21 Dec 2022 7:26PM

Searching Sujitech LLC Illinois came up first with this

https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.sujitech_llc.f41ec74427e67396e586e7a14a08dde9.html#related-companies

We could find out more by paying Dun & Bradstreet

But there is also this

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_il/LLC_06031196

I can't tell yet whether these are the same firm - there's no LLC number on the Dun & Bradstreet entry

JG

Jamie Gaehring Wed 21 Dec 2022 7:28PM

Maybe ICANN info on some of those web domains would turn up more info? I gotta run now but could take a look later.

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