The most important (and unexpected) reason to hope for an alternative digital society is the development of #opensource #linux as the building block of computing that nurtures rather than exploits the individual and their communities.
The #fediverse is an echo of that potential but it is late and slow moving, the begining of a begining.
What is needed are catalytic socioeconomic system adjustments that will direct *major* resources towards developing these alternative visions of computing.