I don’t really get discord. I use it for my one multiplayer gaming session with two friends on sunday evenings and I got an account in the first place to join my FF14 FCs server. But aside from that I have yet to engage with a discord server in a meaningful way.
From what I could observe there are a couple of types of servers:
- Unmoderated hellscapes
- Virtual ghost towns
- The largest party I’ve ever been to but everybody already knows each other and is talking in small groups behind closed doors of this 10.000 room mansion
- Fives guys telling the same in-jokes to themselves in 25 channels that should really be one channel (This is what my FCs discord is, slowly drifting into 2. territory)
- Some youtuber trying to sell you stuff
Entering a discord server and trying to engage feels to me like going to a bar, standing in the middle of the room and saying something to nobody in particular while a drunk guy walking past you looks at you, says …okay and continues on his way to the toilet.
But that’s probably just me.