>>282275744
It felt like that, at least for me; not cause we gatekept but because no one wanted to join. Am I stupid?

I feel like even the spaces where talking about this kinda stuff was normal like here and MAL have taken a nosedive in forum quality in the last 10 years. I used to have long and engaging conversations on there, nowadays I'm lucky for someone to accept my message requests/reply to my response/engage in a post I made about something I wanted to talk about; and even if they do reply 99% of the time it's just a one sentence response that makes me feel stupid for talking as much as I did.

I just really miss having people to talk to. I think when the community was smaller, a larger percentage of it actually cared to be there.