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

well, awesome. thanks for handling that. and that is uh a... revealing? approach to moderation?

Also what the heck kind of coincidence is that, just like Google those words and it would be clear there is already a thing named that.

@Nathan Schneider How solid is that commitment to change the name? Will they actually change it, or just not use it in their promotion?

Yes, we need more than a text message confirmation.

Suggestion that has come up in conversation: we should probably say somewhere publicly that we are not affiliated with "Social Coop Limited". A fair number of folks are freaked out by corporate buyouts on Mastodon, so there's conversation flying about the whole thing.

I don't know who would craft an official statement, or where we would put it -- just passing on the suggestion, which makes sense to me. Even if the company does change their name, the news reports aren't likely to be updated to reflect that.

could it be as simple as "we are not affiliated with Social Coop Ltd, the company that owns pawoo and jp?"

Could be -- just not quite sure what the right way to go about it is.

Agreed. I would suggest a short post from the @[email protected] account, maybe something along these lines:

You may have read about an entity called "Social Coop Limited" acquiring a Japanese Mastodon instance. This entity has no relation whatsoever to social.coop. Due to the risk of confusion, we have reached out to them requesting a change of name.

social.coop is a co-operatively run Mastodon instance that was founded in 2017. Read more about us here: https://wiki.social.coop/home.html

Why overdoing Jonny's version? People don't come on Mastodon to be pointed to wiki pages. It makes sense for us because we socialize mainly on Loomio, AFAIU it Mastodon is both a co-owned personal microblog and coop advertising platform, and an excuse to put experience on our resumes and hang out here. But people want information to drop in their TLs, to be consumed effortlessly.

I'm fine with a short toot, but some context might be helpful, and I'm always in favor of pointing people to more information about who we are.

Who can actually post from the @[email protected] account though? @Nathan Schneider are you able to?