But if you specifically need programming help and advice, honestly the chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude are more helpful than most programmers. They're trained on all the open source code and Stackoverflow answers, etc., and can easily help you debug any beginner issue.

Every now and then someone will make some post about "Tech A is overrated" and they'll make some good points, but because almost nobody in the whole subreddit understands Tech A, there's no proper discussion going on.

Not all of them and the new ones can be pretty good. But I feel like beds there's no real community and such, there will be a bunch of smart people going in and out leaving traces for the natives before they disappear.

tldr: there's a lot of advanced beginners but be careful not to get trapped there

X, Reddit etc are low effort.

I evaluated X for similar purpose. It felt useful but really wasn't to me. X has the "building in public", but it generally stimulates clickbailt style interaction, and strong focus on irrelevant details because colorful things draw attention more than deeper things. It easily becomes a distraction because of the dopamine centered habits developed.

I suggest GitHub. Upload your projects, however small. It's often good learning experience to iterate over old projects and improve, rather than forgetting code deep in some folder structure later lost in data migration. Engage with projects you like, by participating in their discussion page and more.

ChatGPT etc in my experience is superior to broad style community interaction.