< I'm new to the smolnet and having an existential crisis
Welcome to the desert of the real, ~calpico.
I try to think of the web in "render unto Caesar" terms. I need to use the WWW to pay taxes and bills, to do any kind of niche commerce, and in general to participate in a society that I see as irreparable and doomed. I make my living on it (though in the public interest, and avoiding the front-end as much as I can). But I'm not going to spend any of my limited free time and energy contributing to it.