You and the guy below you in this thread should probably tag me on twitter, same tag as here, I can point you. I do not especially want to leave the discord link in a frontpage hn thread.
Same; a good ML focused discord would be great. Training ViTs all day is lonely work. I'm mostly locked into skimming the "Research" channels of image generation discords. LAION used to be decent with a good amount of interesting discussion, but it seems to have devolved into toxicity in the last year.