I think the only thing that needs to be changed in order to create a civil society, not just on the internet but in real life as well, is if everyone treated each other, as well as themselves, with respect. If people respected other people, there wouldn't be harassment, trolling, illegal content, offensive content, or breaching of privacy. Disagreements and discussions would be informative and civilized instead of toxic, people would have constructive criticism that would help those who've done wrong know what they need to improve on instead of just being blindly hated on or avoiding responsibility, and the internet would be an overall positive and civil environment without needing to filter out any negative yet important discussions and topics.

SPOILERS FOR ARCANE

It's funny reading this now because i was just thinking of this exact thing while watching the Netflix series Arcane for the first time. Two scientists are eager to develop new technologies using the power of "magical" hex gems to further progress the city's technological advancements and make citizens' lives easier. For example, the gems could be used to power a powerful gauntlet and laser, which they claim would help construction workers and artifacters. They want to make these gems accessible to the public so that they can be of help to the masses sooner, but they don't think of the implications that the power of these gems could also bring catastrophe to the city. Another example is when a little girl throws a bomb into the enemy's building in order to save her friends, but doesn't realize what she did would also hurt her friends. It's realistic yet tragic in that there are many cases like these in which eager innovators with the intent to help people only end up hurting the very people they wanted to help.

As much as I would want users to have control over the social media sites that rely on them to function, I fear it would have the same problems as societies that don't have a centralized government. For one, the users would be divided by how the site should be moderated. Second, majorities would overpower minorities. Lastly, users would likely favor decisions that benefit themselves over those that would be the best for all users. Positives would be that social media sites would actually respond to the people, which doesn't always happen for social media sites the way they operate now.

Since software engineering and programming is known to be a male-dominated field, I never knew it actually used to be a female-dominated field. I did hear about Ada Lovelace and about how women programmed the earliest computers, but it never occurred to me that it was because men saw hardware engineering as more complicated than software engineering.