Small Servers, Big Belonging: How Discord's Niche Communities Ate the Internet
Forget Reddit threads and dusty phpBB forums — the most passionate online communities have migrated to tight-knit Discord servers where obsession is the price of admission. From artisan keycap collectors to fans of a single obscure 2003 anime, these micro-communities are rewriting what it means to belong online. We talked to the people building them to find out why they work so well.