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When I was a teenager in the late 2010s, I was super active on Discord, and had no trouble talking to people in most of the servers I joined. From around 2020 to now, it's been harder to find friendly servers. Many people just want to talk to those who are already their friends and ignore new members, just saying "welcome" and carrying on talking to someone else. Or, people will be polite, but rarely any discussion happens and most of the chat is people just saying hello and good morning, every day.
Originally I thought it was because I turned 18, had outgrown servers with mainly teens and joined 18+ servers, and that adults make a more boring crowd to chat with. Even if that were the case, I don't want to engage with annoying teens in all-ages servers.
Basically, I can't tell if it's gotten harder to find fun people/friends on Discord because of there being less friendly and fun people on Discord, or because of something to do with me becoming an adult around that time and my tastes and standards changing. As of writing this, I'm considering the latter being most likely, but definitely not entirely the culprit.
Have any of you that are active on Discord noticed something similar? Additionally, I'd appreciate it if you could link some servers you've personally enjoyed the communities in! I have a variety of interests and I'd love to make friends again!  :tnt:

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Try other servers, some servers are kinda eh, others are kinda cool, it's really a numbers game.

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In my personal experience I've also felt like I was having a harder and harder time finding friends and solid servers on Discord, but I think it's less of a Discord-specific thing and more of an internet thing in general. I feel like Discord starting to suck for me coincided with other platforms starting to suck for me, like Tumblr. In some ways I'm sure its an age thing in my case-- I don't feel the need to use the internet for community in the same way I did as a queer and trans teen with no irl queer friends-- but I think people are becoming more burnt out and jaded by the internet in more popular online spaces. Around six months ago I pruned my Discord and now am only in Discord servers and chats from local groups/clubs with people that I see irl at least every so often. It's started to be a lot more fun again, and it feels much more relaxed and slow-paced. I think in general people feel more guarded with how comfortable they feel expressing themselves online because most things are fairly easily accessible to any random person that could stumble in with no context.

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I think that my experience is different because I am not super active on Discord, the ones I have stayed apart of are my interest, the only reason I am not more active on them is I don't like the instant part of it chatting tbh.

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