I had my breaking point with Discord the other day when I realized they block VPNs altogether (at least I can't log into my account anymore). I'm sick of these websites becoming unusable when you want a little bit of anonymity, so I'm going to just avoid most of the mainstream stuff altogether. (Edit: I may have been wrong about Discord blanket banning all VPNs, maybe it only blocks some. Sorry I was crashing out T_T)
But you are right about it being hard to participate in a community when there's just a single #general chat with messages being sent constantly.