You join the online communities hoping they'll show you how to start and grow but instead, there's generally not a lot going on apart from the fairly frequent posts by admin promo-ing their availability for group supervision

When you do ask questions, you leave feeling more confused than before and often end up heading down another rabbit hole, wasting more time you don't have

Social follow threads (aka, 'let's all share our Instagram profiles and follow each other) are pitched as being a great way to market your practice when secretly, they are the group admin's way of hacking the algorithm (because the more comments on the post, aka 'thanks! followed!' and 'here's mine') the more people the group is shown to and gets more members

The group 'experts' paid their way into the position - it's a thing, now - you can buy your group expert status, meaning as a community member, you don't really know who or what to trust in terms of advice

Feeling disempowered, attacked, or disenfranchised because someone was allowed to be disrespectful in the comments

Groups with clear and loud political agendas and not so much focus on private practice