Not for me...

That still involves a process where my butt hole gets wet.

I don't like the wet feeling.

I gave up on torrents a while ago and just focus on Usenet. It cost money (~$3/mo for a provider and another ~$2-3/mo for indexers) but it's encrypted and doesn't rely on P2P.

Also don't forget that DVDs exist if you want to go a more legal route.

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.

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.

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.

Thank God that didn't happen.

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?