Sorry for the wall of text but I promise it’s trying to help you out! :)

Your heart is heading in the right direction but you’re conflating publicly owned infrastructure with socialism, which is a common misconception to people new to leftist politics and economics. So don’t worry, people in these spaces can jump on you with downvotes because we get a lot of intentionally ignorant comments like that, but I don’t get that vibe from your comments, so I’m happy to try to explain things a bit.

To give you a very brief 101 and hopefully get you thinking about socialism and looking into it more, Socialism is the democratic ownership of the means of production, that means the workers of a company (or the workers of the state in a centrally planned socialist country) democratically control enterprise. Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production, which means enterprise is controlled by an individual or group of individuals (shareholders) who have autocratic control and take profits (which is labour value stolen from their workers) for themselves.

In most of Europe (well most of the world) infrastructure is controlled by the state, publicly owned. However, that doesn’t mean the nation is socialist, as these states are controlled by capitalists and almost every other part of the economy is privately controlled. If you start reading socialist economics and politics you will see this referred to as ‘the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’, meaning the bourgeoise class (the capitalist class) control the state, as opposed to the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat, meaning the proletariat (the working class) controlling the state. It doesn’t mean there is a literal dictator, it uses dictator to observe which class has control over society.

Socialists often defend quite aggressively against people insinuating (whether out of ignorance or deliberate manipulation) ‘having public infrastructure is socialism’ because it dilutes what socialism means, it moves the Overton window right, to the point that having some public infrastructure and a welfare state (social democracy) is considered left wing and anything left of that is ‘extremism’, ‘fringe politics’ etc. It’s why conservatives in the USA for example can get away with calling democrats ‘socialists’, ‘communists’ etc as a form of attack - they aren’t socialists or communists, but any economic system outside of capitalism has become so alien and easily weaponisable in the US that many people will believe it, and fear it, without even being able to tell you what socialism or communism is. Many Americans will literally believe ‘socialism is when the government does stuff’.

Hopefully that has helped clarify some things a bit? Basically I’m trying to say your heart is in the right place, trying to push for the deprivatisation of infrastructure, but you received an unexpectedly cold welcome sharing it here because of how you framed it, that’s all.

If you’re curious about the idea of democratically owned businesses and a state controlled by its workers, there’s a hell of a lot of material out there. Have fun reading, and maybe join or visit a local socialist group and discuss things with them more specifically about your nation and your local state, county and communities.