personally I think discord is shit - I wish it would go away. IRC is a lot more resilient towards takeovers and enshittification. look at what happened to slack.
It started locking off basic features behind paywalls and is nagging you about it. Before the rise of discord and in the professional space teams it also started to close off external API gateways to for instance IRC.
Its the basic enshitification playbook really. They got steamrolled during COVID by zoom and later teams somewhat interrupting the process.