[motohagiography]

I can save you the trouble. The internet is full of people: in short, avoid.

However, the internet is also what you bring to it. I took up playing synths last year and it's a whole new community of makers, hackers, and artists that was invisible to me before participating in that art. The same is true for any instrument. I have other pursuits that are almost completely unrepresented online other than some rich technical how-to's, which are great. Doing things whose online communities aren't representative of the real world activity makes me optimistic that the real world isn't like reddit.

Learn a thing and do it often, if not eventually even well, and it changes the lens you see the world through.