More microblogging than a forum, but I have been really loving Bluesky for non technical discussions.

It just feels like old web has died, only things left are Youtube, Amazon, here, X,and… I guess thats it. Its boring to be online now it feels like. Facebook, Insta, snap, reddit, google search, netflix, hbo they all feel like they’re dying sometimes a heartbeat comes from the, here and then, but you know there’s no hope for them long term.

I sit on several classic (regular) forums, the kind that were popular in the 00s

A small-to-mid-sized group of people you have come to know (IRL or online), between a dozen and maybe fifty members, has bee a sweet spot for me.

Or: Metafilter.

Tildes has been reasonable. It's not gotten dragged down to Reddit's depths of depravity and uselessness, though it doesn't rise much above it either.

You're probably looking for the feeling of old-school Forums. So nowadays probably Discord servers?

Also... what on earth did you possibly comment to get banned from Reddit as a whole, and not just from a subreddit?!