Lobbying for privacy laws requires legal knowledge to know which proposals can actually be effective, otherwise one is merely lending their uninformed support to whatever the media tells them is a good idea today.

It all comes down to self actualization, no matter how you slice it. Installing Element instead of Signal (even with its @weird%identity.syntax) is quite technically easy, especially compared to politics! The issue is almost entirely social, in that it requires pushing back on friends who want you to install the proprietary stuff to communicate, and pushing them to the Free solutions.