I generally am happy if the instance provides enough conversation at a reasonable pace on the subjects that I want to talk about. Beyond that, it growing doesn't necessarily make it better.

This place is definitely not dead. Quite lively, in fact. I'm not sure why there being a bigger star trek community somewhere means that this one would be useless

That's pretty difficult if you use the internet

Pretty sure it's just getting hammered right now.

Where does somethingawful fit in

Plex is easy and works on everything I use it on. Easy enough that my old parents can use it. I know some people are bothered by their recent pivot to try to have some legitmacy but it's trivial to ignore their commercial-subsidized content