I think we're too far gone. Look at it this way: If say, tomorrow, the www went away and we went back to an analog world (meaning the 20-year-old, 35-inch TV in your garage or spare room would work again and your computer turned back into a word processor) the world economy would collapse. In a New York Minute. So, that's not going to happen. Bluesky and Mastodon aren't going to save us, either. We could of done something 15 years ago, but didn't because corporations shut down meaningful legislation in most Western countries. The internet, email, chat rooms, messenger, free dial-up (NetZero, anyone?) Sixdegrees, AOL, Netscape, gone or going away soon. Duck, Duck, Go and other, alternative search engines will take years to catch up to Google and MSN. Everybody's got a phone, tablet and watch. Unless you know how to turn off your preferences, you're tracked and someone has that information. Heck, I can find my old Hotmail messenger chats with a few keystrokes. With people I don't even talk with or know anymore. Kids can't tell time on a clock anymore. You need an app to go to sleep? Really?

If change is going to happen, it might take an cataclysmic event, where there's no power - like what happened in 2003, but much worse - for things to change.