There’s Nothing Wrong With Rolling Your Own.
![A dark, rainy city alleyway, the walls daubed with graffiti.](https://i0.wp.com/pluralistic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9626e-0nui1uvxyu2wckzsm.jpg?w=840&ssl=1)
Whenever something terrible happens on the internet — a coordinated harassment campaign on one of the big social media platforms, say, or a criminal conspiracy to traffick in child sex abuse images or promote a scammy cryptocurrency — inevitably we learn that this all took place in one of the net’s “dark corners.”