I am so sad to hear that!! That is why I think there needs to be more of place to find out about these things. I try to put as much information as I can in the daily prompt post, but it gets very overwhelming.
Right now, it is pure luck if you get to "meet" someone who is helpful. I was lucky to come across the MAP project when I was very new and there were super helpful people in the discord. You could go there at any time of the day and someone was there, answering questions.
But that takes a toll on the people doing this. they end up not having time to post themselves and are loosing out on building their own accounts - not sustainable at all.