Community is a side effect of stuff that people actively care about. This can be real-world proximity (as in physical communities) or social connection among relatives and acquaintances (as with Facebook friends), or deep involvement in some community of practice (as with HN or the niche subreddits that are most strongly identified with Reddit itself). You aren't going to find a real "community" feel on the Reddit.com front page, least of all on the algorithmically-driven "new" Reddit.com. It's just as silly as expecting "community" on 9gag or Twitter.

I feel like discord has long since won this battle. It was over as soon as nearly every subreddit started to create community discords.

Which is still a bad thing as now all that hoarded reddit data that comes up when I look for problem solutions is going to move to tech support discord channels for that community and vanish from the public web.

The social media site cycle iterates again. I hope Discord takes a while to go to fall apart, it is nice for small group chats (just a couple old friends); it will be a pain to replace that platform.

Discord already started it's enshitification with the 'pay to get your preferred username' goldrush.

I think the 10% active participants will be happy with discord. I'm less sure the other 90% lurkers will.