If you actually value your anonymity, you will not be able to use most popular communication platforms in the coming months. It’s a perfect storm for the outright invasion of privacy in the USA right now.
Learning to code allows you to build and use your own (as well as other less known) tools.
Does this make sense?
Learn. To. Coed. Code.
I mean, I agree with the fact that it’s fun to know the basics to software engineering (just knowing the words in a coding language is kinda useless by itself) but no one’s building their own alternatives by themselves. The field is too vast. Find your specialty and contribute to open source projects.