About half of my dreams are just played out like stories, with a mostly-coherent plot. Sometimes if they're particularly TV-like I even get end credits and a theme song, but that's rare.
The other half are about re-visiting an incredibly familiar town or building in that town (which doesn't exist in real life as far as I'm aware).
You're saying the criteria for being called "social media" include, "must be toxic" and "must be algorithmically-driven"?
Maybe this is an age thing and language has changed (I'm old in Internet years) but to me, "social" implies the opposite of those things - friendly interaction and organic connection.
I guess my take is anywhere people interact with others in a conversational way, yes. You can see a timeline of posts, you can comment and reply, etc. You can't do that on 99% of websites or apps. You can't do it on your banking app or your weather app or your insurance website, etc. The lines blur around things like Wikis where you can chat with people on talk pages.
Limiting "social media" to places you post pictures of yourself rules out most earlier forms of social media before that became a thing, but looking back you wouldn't say twitter wasn't. The Wiki link you gave also links to "list of social media websites", which includes Reddit, as a directly opposing point.
I don't think it's clear-cut, and I know different people have different opinions.
Maybe, but I've definitely seen people disagree about what constitutes social media - e.g. some thing youtube is or isn't, other people lemmy/reddit are or aren't, it seems pretty inconsistent. Maybe it's a generational thing?
1 & 2 contradict. You're suggesting blocking the IP addresses of known VPNs (which is what they would have to do if they wanted this to work in the slightest). DNS blocking (which is something they've made ISPs do in the past) is pretty pointless, since you can resolve the IP address of a host multiple different ways (like switch DNS server, use a custom downloadable hosts file...)
They'd tell the ISPs they need to block traffic to VPNs, and then fine them if they let traffic through, shifting the responsibility to the ISP.
You'd presumably be happier if they got monies and you didn't have to see ads. If you're not intending on acting on the ads, the end result is the same. It's just you have to give up some of your time. You're paying a middleman with your time (which is not worthless, I hope) and they're paying Ecosia. The people advertising their product spend money and don't get anything in return from you, so it's difficult to present this as a system that would make sense to any outsider.
This is why I have concerns about AR cybernetic eye replacement technology in science fiction (and maybe in real life sometime).
You'd install adblockers for real life... and then get some virus that makes the adblocker hide the bus as you're about to cross the street.
Ah, makes sense. You're right about firmware updaters, and I don't know if I'd trust one running under Wine anyway tbh. Who knows what weird system calls they make assuming you're running Windows 95 or whatever.
About half of my dreams are just played out like stories, with a mostly-coherent plot. Sometimes if they're particularly TV-like I even get end credits and a theme song, but that's rare.
The other half are about re-visiting an incredibly familiar town or building in that town (which doesn't exist in real life as far as I'm aware).
I do get a lot of false-awakening dreams too.