Having your own website can be a very fun way to showcase your interests, hobbies, ideas, looks, artistic expressions, knowledge and much more. The best parts?

• It's easier and cheaper than you think
• It's more respectful to your and your visitors privacy
• It's not blocked/forcing your visitor...

Open source, for me, is the very practical "proof" for the claim that "as soon as their [humans] interests do not absolutely clash, act in concert, harmoniously, and perform collective work of a very complex nature". That is to say that humans can act together as a group without a central authority...