If you want actual discussion you need to go to r/nbadiscussion. They have rules that are enforced.

People who purposefully spoil others are very sad and pathetic people.

I don't know how Discord became the end all be all for everything. Maybe it's because it's so easy to start a server? Either way as you said it's terrible for searching and having asynchronous conversations.

Fire up the Beal to Heat rumors

I think both TNG and DS9 S1 were more uneven than outright sucking. You've got some great episodes like Measure of a Man and Duet in there.

I'm not a fan of Discovery or Picard and that "flavor" of new Trek. If you had criticisms or negative comments about anything it could get you banned on r/startrek if you didn't go above and beyond to justify it.

Go take a look at https://startrek.website/post/225 and see how the admin reacts to comments they don't agree with.

I can't trust most reviews after Picard. It's a symptom of the larger problem with reviews these days that I just don't trust most names anymore.

You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage.

You have to worry about it yourself though.

The best thing that can happen is development on Lemmy or other alternatives actually makes progress.

Why? It's a less mature platform with less features and not enough content. I get the idea of it being attractive but it's like Mastadon without the content you've got an uphill climb.

Are you familiar with what's going on over at Reddit right now?

So can I not have my home page only be the communities I subscribe to by default?