Not sure this has any real consequences for gamers?
Not for me...
That still involves a process where my butt hole gets wet.
I don't like the wet feeling.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E1 "The Broken Circle" Episode Discussion
Description: A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
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.

What's this community's stance on negative opinions?
There's another community on another instance apparently run by the same people who run r/startrek on Reddit and they can be...zealous to say the least.
Is this community going to allow people who don't like some bits of Star Trek?
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.
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Are you familiar with what's going on over at Reddit right now?
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So can I not have my home page only be the communities I subscribe to by default?