But you didn't say that you wanted an experience, you said that you wanted "people with shared interests anymore who are actually willing to deal with other peo

But you didn't say that you wanted an experience, you said that you wanted "people with shared interests anymore who are actually willing to deal with other people as something other than a potential customer, victim, or at best a single-serving friend for the duration of exactly one interaction." The communities are there - just because the current platform sucks (which I agree, Discord is privacy-invasive, controlling, and dog-slow) doesn't mean that the communities have vanished. And, if there's already people, you can make connections that move to other platforms.