Yes, pretty much what you say. A few years ago I was part of a group video chat (probably on Zoom, although I forget) that involved 25 or so individuals and which was initiated by someone using Ko-Fi as their newsletter/blogging platform. After introductions were made people were split off into five groups of five so that everybody could be more involved. At the end of it all the five groups may have coalesced back into the one large group, although again I can’t quite remember.
I ask all this with the idea of – in this case – moving from Ko-Fi to Ghost for the newsletter/blogging aspect (while using Discourse as the commenting platform, courtesy of the recently expanded embedded commenting functionality), and simultaneously replacing the Zoom (?) chats/workshops aspect with this new Discourse livestream functionality.