Internet forums and discord groups can't fully satisfy your need for friends like real life friends does. Most of the time they are temporary anyways.
I have been lonely for so long. I mourned the loss of those friend groups from "the olden days" of the internet ('00s), but they might have been an illusion since I was a teen back then anyway. When kc died, it felt like a piece of my heart was torn out, but to be honest, it wasn't really as nice all along.
Now I found a discord channel. I entered it and it was... Nice. The people were genuinely nice.
I felt connected, in a way, that even predates my attachment to Imageboards.
However. It's a full force LGBTQ+ server. Not everyone has to be gay, but it is a huge thing over there. I even found out that the chat lingo is from the LGBTQ "scene".
I remember that I had been drifting in that direction before I found Imageboards and became generally right-wing (what I wouldn't even describe my identity right now). But still. I feel so out of place, and still welcome, because most of them are also not neurotypicals. Most of them suffer issues. I am amongst the most healthy there with my autism and moderately orderly life, but... It's ok.
Also, half of them are school kids or students.
I'm torn and still I feel at home somewhat. In a friendly circle, at last.
Depends, while I tried to study in Uni for 2 years I became depressive, and having my own discord server with my own small community really helped me to go through this time, I did not need anyone else.
Being the Admin there made me very talkative, I cared about a lot of people and I built up a lot of self confidence, people loved playing games with me because we always had a good atmosphere and fun.
We even met in Sweden for a week at some point to drink and party, and later here in Germany.
But yeah, it is temporary.
Now that I am more busy irl and even managed to get gf, the community is dying.
I think the others also moved on in life, but maybe once in a month we still play games together.
