Personally, I'd pick Mbin, Friendica or PieFed.
I can observe two main types of social media style in the fediverse, microblogging-styled (e.g. Twitter-inspired), or group-styled (e.g. Reddit / BBS-inspired).
The rest's usually variations of these two, or are interoperable to varying degrees with these main types.
And Mbin, Friendica and PieFed all explicitly try to integrate groups and microblogging, meaning they'd be the more overarching ones.
And sure, one solution always means sacrificing another, so alts may still be needed.
And on Pleroma's case, it would seem it supports communities but only partially? I wonder if it's like Mastodon. If so, your feed can become noisy.