I have a strange impression about trading community groups, such groups are just a show off of wealth rather than discussing strategies and trading plans. Thinking about things like this makes me tend to ignore trading groups or communities, of course this is never fun especially when you really expect a lot of knowledge to be shared.
After all, a trading community or group that is not well-moderated by the owner is just a bad alarm for emotional management failure. Someone may be influenced by other people's decisions and they have to accept losses because of wrong decisions.
Most of the time, you will read successful stories but they won't share their failures and reasons why such failures.
Maybe for the sake of getting insights, you can join them as long as it is free.
But if they will start asking for a fee, then, better get out. You can earn your skill or knowledge on your own.
You can actually discover a lot of tricks if you will do your own trading. Just start small and be patient with your journey.
I completely agree with your opinion, for beginners who are really just starting trading, I think it's best to seek knowledge independently, whether by reading or watching videos about trading education or learning directly from someone who has good capacity or knowledge in trading.
because right now I think most trading communities or groups have now been made into wetlands for commercialization or in other words if we want to join that group or communities and take knowledge there we have to pay first so that we have full access and more knowledge in that community.
In fact, there have been many cases of trading communities founded by well-known people or even some influencers, it turns out that they are defrauding beginners who really don't have any knowledge of trading.