A tree needs strong roots to stay up. A wood-eating mushroom takes part of a tree and turns it into a great flu medicine for people. Chaga is not very well known, since it works.
One of the most popular streaming platforms Twitch recently updated the ad algorithms to overcome adblockers. The easy solution seemed to be adding amazon-adsystem.com to blocked addresses, for example on Brave Ad Block-option.
A better alternative to the corporate ad-program seen as a social platform is of course VIMM. Hive has so many great dapps to forget the dinosaur platforms for good.
Brainwashing with bright pictures is not a new idea, that is why commercials are so prevalent everywhere. We wont admit it, but it effects our behavior a great deal. One of the most popular car manufacturers for EU seems to be Mercedes, most ads, most sales.
It is even so effective, that people still pour Agent Orange on their lawns and fields (Roundup). Not to mention avoiding other people in fear of a sneeze. It is an upside-down world and it wont change by standing by.
It need actions, like using the free platforms, making connections with other people and especially an totally new culture. Or basically returning to the natural human state, what it all is about in the end.
Living in concrete boxes eating the same food, looking the same screen, doing the same things, people are malluable. But we could be adventurers, if to live and let live would return as a meme. We are ultrasocial species, no wonder the mind gets frustrated all the time.
Sure virtual communication is nice, but face to face communication is the most efficient. Letters are not thoughts, people tend to forget that. A great phrase came to mind, if something is worth buying for, there is no ad for it since it sells by itself.
We are in the end still monkeys with electric gadgets figuring out what it is all about. We already had everything we needed in the nature, even the concept of a job is only a few hundred years old idea. Paying to be alive on a providing planet, that is one of the most absurd ideas ever mentioned.