When I was a teenager I came up with several technical and nontechnical websites, zines with programming and reverse engineering tutorials, interviews, and just

When I was a teenager I came up with several technical and nontechnical websites, zines with programming and reverse engineering tutorials, interviews, and just plain fucking around. And everyone else around me was pretty much the same. There were multiple "scenes", we formed deep relations on IRC, even though almost none knew my real name or how I looked. I still meet some of those people online (few even in real life) more than 20 years later. Nowadays, I don't put anything too valuable on the web. Because why should I do anything for free, right? I don't live at the expense of my parents anymore, and society does not provide me with means to survive if I spend my time doing all that and "share". Now, since I'm unemployed and basically unemployable (no linkedin/facebook/whatever, disagree with gov policies re. covid and the society that accepts and promotes them hence don't get out much, won't consider working for unethical companies that track people for any purpose whatsoever (there are so many of those), introversion, etc.), I continue to do what I always did, write code, come up with theories that sometimes lead to personal projects, etc. But I definitely won't put these up on the web. Nowadays, I don't put anything too nonconforming on the web. There are still people doing stuff "for free". They get money from something or somewhere else. But nowadays it's mostly boring as shit. Why? Because nowadays people learn to abide by the dystopia's unwritten dicta: conform, obey, self-censor, follow, like, share. When you can no longer post anonymously, when everything you say is on a permanent record, when everything around you is moderated to Hell. When every movement is tracked, your best bet is to move along in the direction of the herd. If you don't, you will be disappeared from the relevant environment. Such a society can't be fun and weird; it actively discourages fun and weird.