Has Discord Gotten Worse in the Past Few Years?

[CrispySeaBreeze]

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! 

[Magic16]

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

[infernal.serval]

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.

[Tiffany]

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.

[Watanabe_1994]

I haven't used discord since I was 16 (2021), I stopped using it because I started to distance myself from allot of my "friends" (I wouldn't really call them that) and I had absolutely no use for it. I just use internet forums and email now. I remember discord being bad even back then both its users and its employees are culturally and mentally brainrotted, heard gotten its worse now.

[lakes]

I just stay in a few servers with friends I've known for years and don't join any new ones. So I won't know. But I can tell you that my experience joining new servers sucked unless I was invited by someone I was mutuals with on social media or I was invited by someone in another server I'm in.
I do wanna get out more. So I don't have to rely as much on the internet, but every time I try, I feel like I take 2 steps forward and 1 step back.

[Magic16]

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.

That's interesting, because that's my favorite part of Discord. There's no algorithms, just a pure focus on "here right now".

It's basically modern AOL chat mixed with web surfing, anything can happen, anything goes.

[Tiffany]

That's interesting, because that's my favorite part of Discord. There's no algorithms, just a pure focus on "here right now".

It's basically modern AOL chat mixed with web surfing, anything can happen, anything goes.

I was always more into forums and not instant messaging to be honest, so because discord gives AOL/Yahoo instant messenger/chat vibes is why I don't love it. I like how in forums you can come and go and the conversation doesn't pass you by, but it does in chats like discord.