it's very easy to make a friend server that has all you basically need: sending messages, images/files and being able to talk with voice channels.

you can also invite a music bot or host your own that will join the voice channel with a song that you requested

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bandrami 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Right.... how is that different from IRC other than being controlled by a big company with no exit ability and (again) extremely tenuous privacy promises?

	▲	trinix912 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For the text chat, it's different in the way that it lets one make their own 'servers' without having to run the actual hardware server 24/7, free of charge, no need to battle with NATs and weird nonstandard ways of sending images, etc. The big thing is the voice/videoconferencing channels which are actually optimized insanely well, Discord calls work fine even on crappy connections that Teams and Zoom struggle with. Simply put it's Skype x MSN Messenger with a global user directory, but with gamers in mind.