I do not mean this as a rhetorical question: I mean it literally. Tell us what’s stopping you! I don’t want to invalidate you, but the opposite. I’m sure people here would love to help if it’s possible. Post away!
Personally, I think Covid and the general amount of work everyone does are the two biggest obstacles to community building. Not just for me, but everybody I know. It’s nearly impossible to build a community when nobody has the energy to even play a video game together, and actually meeting up in person can literally kill you. There are definitely solutions, but we need to realize them as problems first to find them. If you have suggestions, please share them! Same goes for the issues everyone else shares (if they’re ok with help, of course).
I live in an area that, on paper, should be pretty fruitful but nobody's really applied a correct line. We have lots of groups but they're all anarchists, and when I tried to steer a group that I was foundational to towards a more practical and less idealistic line it exploded due to completely worthless social infighting.
Seriously, watch out, if you're not careful you CAN get taken advantage of and be left with nothing if malicious actors get in on the ground. And they're not malicious actors because they're innately wrong or evil or backed by the FBI or something, just hurt people who don't do the work for themselves to stop hurting others. I lost a lot from it, and it was humiliating to lose everything after so much work; so don't feel bad for practicing prudence with who you work with.
I think I'm still salving myself after that as selfish as that is