I've tried to join a few. It's not very cut and dry as to how this all works, though. I'm not clear on the distinction between Clans and Groups, but when I tried joining Clans nobody replied to the requests. I then joined a couple of XBox One groups and have tried to join up with others that have posted. Unfortunately, it takes forever to type in a longer XB Live gamertag and then send them a friend request, wait for the accept and hopefully be able to join the game. I have a bunch of requests I sent that are still hanging in cyber space I guess because the people posting got their fill of first responders. I'm skeptical of posting my own request because I don't know all the jargon people are posting on the groups and what kind of response to expect. They all seem so specific as to what people are looking for. I'm a level 29 Hunter, but most people are asking for 30+ with specific gear, abilities or objectives in mind. I'm just trying to find some people to do the VOG, or Crota's End, or Weekly/Daily Heroic Strikes, maybe run the Crucible with, complete Exotic bounties with, etc. But I'm always two steps behind the postings.

A group is collective of players. In a group you can post topics that you other group members can see and reply to. It's a great place to meet others and set up fireteams. A clan is like a subset of a group. For example rooster teeth has a group here on bungie. Then with in the group they have a psn clan and a Xbox clan.

Thank you! That clears up that much for me, lol. I didn't realize they were actually inter-related like that. I had begun thinking of them as very separate entities, with clans being more of an 'elite' type of thing. I appreciate the clarification!

And to be honest all you get from joining a clan is the clan name on your player title card in game. On top of that clans are limited to 100 so it's possible to be part of a large group and never have the clan name show up because the clan is full.