Everyone's always talking about PSL, SRA, DSA, RR, CPUSA, and I'm just over here like "I just wanna grill for god sake!"
There's a million little random leftist organizations with slightly different goals and ideologies, but which one should someone looking to, in the words of Father Matt, 'log the fuck off' go to? Which ones are crank warehouses? Which are honeypots? Which are full of libs?
Bitch and complain about your least favorite orgs and shill for your favorites here. Reply to others telling them that their org is full of libs and FBI agents. Etc.
EDIT: also anyone with a specific recommendation in the Quad Cities area in Iowa/Illinois definitely drop me a line
In my experience, the most utility that came out my local DSA chapter was providing a forum for various smaller independent groups to come together and talk about the actions they are planning, report on updates, and share news. The chapter itself helped organize a handful of immigration justice demonstrations, but a large portion of the local action is being pioneered by other groups and using DSA meetings as a place to plug their orgs and upcoming actions. There's a fair amount of Cosecha and IWW people in there, as well as people with labor union roots.