I thought so, too. There are still enough communities hosted on phpBB, there are still enough ways to tinker around, join IRC, find ridiculous geocities-like websites or whatever. It's more that people choose to use FB, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram.
There's communities even in those places. You just have to go looking for them and be a naive kid, like all these people posting in this thread were 10-20+ years ago :p
