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

https://www.lush.com/uk/en

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

@zleap Lush is a major high street brand in the UK and probably lots of Europe (I've been to a few in Germany). I can smell their shops at the mention of the name.

@brian Do you think it is worth trying to get them on here though.

It may just start to tip the balance, my attempt to get mental health charities on here seems to have failed (so far at least). I feel really sorry for those on here who need or may need help .

@zleap I haven't been here long, and I'd love to see some return on the fee I'm paying for my instance, but unfortunately I don't see this as the sort of network a company can easily use to reach out. There might already be people and companies on the fedi that I know, but I haven't found any through the network itself. I've been following strangers, or learning of accounts by external means.

Would a company find this useful? I suspect not. 🙁

@brian I kinda agree with you, perhaps as they clearly don't like the way things are on Facebook et al, then maybe they can help make fedi better.

It is a difficult one to call really, the could use Peertube rather than youtube for example.

@brian Idf nothing else moving here could give us a huge amount of publicity.

If fb et al are scared or worried about what we offer, the publicity of people moving here, may actually motivate them in to making their platform safer.

If nothing else it could give us that much needed exposure to bring people here, but that would come with good / bad people.