Most of the good and niche communities are unfortunately burried in Slack and Discord nowadays, and Discouse being an overengineered platform isn't helping eith

Most of the good and niche communities are unfortunately burried in Slack and Discord nowadays, and Discouse being an overengineered platform isn't helping either. Reddit is a mix of all of the ones you mentioned, but there are some amazing subreddits out there. At the same time, answer.microsoft.com is in the worst end, and have made me angry hundreds of times. For non-tech, Facebook groups (yeah yeah I know) can be pretty amazing, and often the only resource. - I recently busted my laptop from a BIOS upgrade, and there was a very frequent thread on r/LenovoLegiin that one-shot fixed it. - I'm having some driver issues that prevent me from updating Windows 11. Literally hundreds of search results on answer.microsoft.com are canned responses by the same guy named Sumit, and with hundreds of web sites that simply scrape that Microsoft site, fixing a Windows bug is quite painful. - For non-tech, I prefer Facebook groups. I'm setting up my first DIY solar setup at the moment, and a few very active Facebook groups were the only resource to source certain stuff, and very elaborate guides especially on making LiFePo4 battery packs. Building a battery pack isn't as easy or straight forward, and having a bunch of people often in the same geographic location helps to borrow tools, pick some brains, and even to trade. For expats, especially in Asia, Facebook groups are the mainstream. Everything from pub crawls to apartment rentals happen on Facebook group.