No, it's alive and well, you just aren't invited. You can't engineer or buy access into communities that you are not cool enough to be a part of. If you do some

No, it's alive and well, you just aren't invited. You can't engineer or buy access into communities that you are not cool enough to be a part of. If you do somehow manage it, the core people who made the community cool before you showed up will quickly move elsewhere SV nerds gotta stop trying to invite themselves to cool people parties, it's cringe. Accept your limitations as well as your strengths. Accept that real membership in those communities has a price that you are not actually willing and/or able to pay