Lush to stop some social media until it's 'safer'
(Lush is an Online cosmetics shop / company I think)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59380458
This sounds like a really good opportunity for the Fediverse to reach out and see if we can get them on to the decentralised platform.
They are looking for an alternative that is safer, well we may not be perfect but they will have more control with their own instance
Same goes for Youtube -> peertube instance.
#Advocacy, #Opportunity #Lush #Cosmetics #YearOfTheFediverse
> "[Social media channels] do need to start listening to the reality of how they're impacting people's mental health and the damage that they're causing through their craving for the algorithm to be able to constantly generate content regardless of whether it's good for the users or not," Jack Constantine, chief digital officer and product inventor at Lush, told the BBC's Today programme.
the sad part is these platforms know exactly what they are doing
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/?sh=4af41a8f197c
@icedquinn They will listen even more when companies start to move here, and bring their customers with them, lets make them all feel welcome and importantly supported in their move.
Granted we are not here for advertising, but as a way for people to keep in touch, share product lines why not.
What we need is to support them, perhaps. I lack the skills to set my own instance up, but others d have these skills.
That will create demand for more people to learn, these skills (inc linux admin) we are ideally positioned as people who are a) here and b) care about what the fedi stands for to help these companies out.
