[worldsayshi]

I feel like I am constantly looking for relevant communities but I find it really really hard to find anything. Maybe I live in a too small city or something.

I suspect that my current social media addiction tendencies is a compensation for not finding good communities for my interests.

[santana16]

You are 100% right. Finding a good one is incredibly hard. Usually requires a capable and dedicated person to run (which are very hard to come by).

[worldsayshi]

> Usually requires a capable and dedicated person to run

This makes me think that there's some friction to this that could be alleviated. Like having more of and more diverse third places.

I used to be part of a number of theatre groups. Those groups did often have dedicated and capable singular people that made it work. But other times it was more of a group effort. Often the most dedicated people arose to the occasion once the context was there, because they had a bit more intrinsic motivation for what we did than others. And in some of the cases we got a lot of help from various institutions for admin and getting a place to practice, which certainly lowered the friction.

[HPsquared]

The hardest, best way is to build it yourself.

[mmcromp]

I'm not so sure. You'd still need to figure out how to find and attract the people you want to be around while keeping the people you don't want out. Itd probably be easier to keep trying different avenues until you find a group you vibe with