this is only going to be of interest if you write speculative fiction/poetry - anyway yes I am a pretty online socialization person and one of the things stopping me from really cutting back on DA was a lack of other places to talk to creatives (well, mostly writers, writers are very chatty haha) and...now I have them. anyway first I joined a writers' meetup group, and then someone there told me about this https://www.codexwriters.com/ which has relatively relaxed membership requirements (basically one 'pro' sale) & is free to join, but then I felt like I should maybe give back to the community if I'm going to get money from writing so I did up and join SFWA, and...yeah. I'm good. It's fine that DA doesn't want to go in a community-oriented direction, but I'm not going to force it here when there are viable alternatives. Note: SFWA just updated the membership requirements, Associate is much more attainable than it was previously, check it out: