In my experience, the D&D community is very welcoming to newcomers. In addition to the classic online LFG stuff (lemmy, reddit, discord), I would give your local hobby shop(s) a visit. Chances are they host weekly games, or at the very least can point you in the right direction.

I will say, with D&D 5e, they really made an effort to streamline the learning curve, and it shows. I'll message you a tool I found really helpful for learning the rules.

(Also, don't limit yourself to D&D! There are plenty of great pen and paper roleplaying systems out there. Call of Cthulhu is a great example of one I've been meaning to play.)

Dice rolling? I'm confused.

I thought this was for the game where we just try to schedule a time for everyone to meet and cancel because no one can meet

Source?

The subscriber count you see is based in the instance you are on. 7000+ subscribers are from lemmy.world. The bot accounts people complain about are on unsecured instances. We haven't seen proof of any activity from them and they wouldn't show up in the subscriber count here.

Elon, is that you?

Or perhaps Spez...