

No, not a conspiracy but, it is not actually "emotional issues" either. It is dogma, and an emotional solution will not work directly either.
Emotional solutions may seem to help in some cases but not all. The core underlying issue is the human tribal scope. Dogma exists specifically at the level of tribalism. Tribalism is why logic and reasoning are ineffective. Any information from humans outside of the tribe is invalidated based upon membership alone. No information from outsiders is considered valid.
So if you can reach someone with an emotional connection, you are really convincing them that you are part of their tribe. However, if they accept you while the rest of the tribe has not, or they are of low social hierarchical rank in the tribe, they risk becoming an outcast other too, and preventing propagation of reasoning logic.
This dynamic of tribalism is why religious leaders are so powerful and why secular authorities engage with them. If a leader or high ranking members of a tribe endorse such a secular authority, all of the tribe must follow blindly because there is no logic in dogma, only tribalism. It can sound rather absurd, but the reinforcement mechanism is social network isolation of the tribe. Most people don’t actually believe the tribal mythos, but if they leave, they lose access to their social network they were born within because this group is mutually exclusive. This social network isolated reinforcement mechanism is why there are regional faiths, and these do not compete on merit of logic or reasoning. If you were born into a region of Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or Muslim faith tribes, you will be a part of one of these. The issue is not the validity of the tribe. Battling the mythos or ethos of the tribe is only capable of provoking the most combative and least broad-scope self aware members of the group. The only way to effectively change people is to offer them a better tribe and social network than what they have and all that they have ever known. For most humans, leaving their tribe is a death sentence in the same primitive instincts that are at play with dogma.
So, if you follow this logic, first off, welcome to the tribe, because we are doing it too! Tribalism is inescapable at this point in human evolution. Second, it should be rather obvious that any logic or argument with dogma results in the exact opposite effect of what you are trying to accomplish. If you truly want to change a dogmatic person, you must welcome them into your tribe openly. If this action seems difficult, it is because your own tribal scope is not what you believe it to be, and in a sense you were coming to a battle. Third and finally, a High Machiavellian type person with broad stroke abstractive skills can see this type of dynamic like playing with Lego bricks to make a small box; it is trivial. The skill doesn’t have anything to do with sensing or emotions. It is like watching a cutaway of an engine assembly turning and intuitively seeing how all the pieces work together well enough to understand the mechanism. And this is why a person that regularly visited Epstein Island, and solicited a porn star for sex because she looked like his daughter, or an open polygamist oligarch is able to buy the heads of dogmatic tribes and get blindly accepted. These people are high Machs too. We are rare relatively speaking in terms of functional thought. High Machiavellian is not necessarily bad. It can be used for good, or like myself – to be one of the few people dumb enough to abandon their isolated socially exclusive network of dogmatism. It also enables raising awareness of those that are dangerously wielding the skill, though only at smaller scales of within a tribe, unless one makes a goal of broad scope influence but that is a challenge as well. Like, I can understand collective motivations like a machine, but I do not understand emotions of influence and popularity well. The same applies to others like Trump and Musk. If they could understand these elements, they would displace the leaders of the dogmas. Instead they must still work to appease these intermediaries.
We need some kind of subletting system. Package a stupid simple Raspberry Pi image with the minimal amount of configuration required for me to self host, and set up a fediverse based DNS and certificate authority. Make it stupid simple for a user like me to self host my traffic without needing to pay for a domain and sort out all of the requirements. Like I technically have money but don’t control my finances and am heavily subsidized by family due to my situation and disability. I could probably set it up if I was super motivated but networking complexity is a rabbit hole that feels intentionally convoluted and a pain in the ass every time I mess with it. Locking down a Linux image with an immutable base and well configured PAM, SELinux, and automatic updating is equally daunting when a person has no experience or professional contacts familiar with the setup to ground one’s understanding.
I don’t see why we need to rely on the traditional internet infrastructure. We should be able to make something like fediverse.lemmy.user.j4k3 where we collectivise the address fediverse.lemmy, use it as a DNS server, and then distribute the traffic to individual servers.