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Rock and Stone, brother.

Deep Rock Galactic's great game design has caused it to grow one of the most positive, supportive communities in online gaming, IMO. While problematic players do exist, they are the exception rather than the rule.

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My favorite MMO is Guild Wars 2. While it certainly has grind available, it doesn't require it to play the content. It genuinely respects your time and understands people have lives outside of gaming, and tries to give a lot of options for ways to progress so you can focus on content you enjoy. There's a lot of communities, guilds and activities to do with others. You can join 5 guilds at once, if for instance you wanted to join a group of friends, a big guild that does events together, another one that does raids, another based on your identity or location etc.

It kind of throws you into the deep end when you start, and suffers from layers upon layers of developed complexity thanks to add-ons and content updates over the years, but for a certain type of person it will really click. It's free to try so you might as well see if you like it.

It used to be Minecraft, idk about now. I have a buddy who used to play online backgammon day and night, and that was pretty social since he always had a bunch of chat windows open to other players and they'd talk about things while playing. For me it was IRC (not exactly a game), but that is pretty dead now I think.

lichess.org is great if you like chess, but I wouldn't call it social. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't play on it but I do the puzzles there sometimes.

Sky: Children of the Light. Though it used to be more social than it currently is.

I hear good things about Roblox lately.