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
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> "[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
> "[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
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@icedquinn That head line reminds me of the ST voyager episode Scientific method, where the doctor likens the crew to being one large petri dish as the hidden aliens were conducting experiments on them.
