It's more broken than ever before and the staff seem to be pretty absent in general.

The audiogaming community is such a niche community that I do actually think you can switch to a federated platform without losing something critical. I don't think that in many other cases but this community could probably switch relatively easily. However, you will likely end up losing certain valuable contributions no matter what you do.
Edit: Changed valuable to critical in the first sentence since that's really what I meant to say.

I do indeed wonder how long this search feature takes getting looked into? It's been reported again and again for a few months and nothing! Unless it's fixed by now... I'd say more on a lot more things but I'm not going into. You know where I stand.

I've never used Lemmy, but it's honestly probably better than what we have now, which is a bunch of cobbled together failing components. With a name like Lemmy, it had damned well better be good. Lemmy was awesome.

That's their problem. Let people who want to switch switch, And once enough important people like streamers/game developers/anything decide to move, The people that you speak of will be forced to move.

I mean, Discord has forums now.

Yeah scrolling through channels on Mac OS and IOS is an absolute nightmare for me, it has a habit of jumping the focus to a random point in the chat, often miles away from where I want to be. It's doable with some frustration if you just need to respond to a single message, but anything else would definitely be pushing it. Plus at the end of the day, whatever your opinions are regarding it's accessibility or lack there of, it suffers from the same problem as Reddit, it's hosted by a huge corporation that only cares for it's own interests and will drop us the moment it feels it can get away with it. We needn't make the same mistake twice.

I've done a bit of messing around with Lemmy, and I like what I see so far. It integrates with the Fediverse extremely well, for instance it can interact with a fair few similar reddit replacement projects that have popped up recently. I'm not sure to what extent it can interact with Mastodon, but I'll definitely be taking a look at that too. Accessibility wise the site could certainly be better, but it's being worked on, currently accessibility fixes can only be found in the dev beta, but they should be added to stable soon.

I strongly disagree. If you take a look at Lemmy, it's literally Reddit but federated. If you've used Reddit for any length of time, you'll understand why it's an ideal system for a community like ours. Hell, Lemmy instances aren't even federated by default, so we could even keep it defederated if that were to be an issue, or it's also possible to only federate with specific instances. Plus, again, there's the API, which will be fucking amazing once someone with the right knowhow takes advantage of it. By comparison, I'm really not seeing what Discourse has to offer. Sure it does it's job reasonably well, but we'd be cutting off our noses to spite our faces.