I spent years, but I didn’t find any interesting acquaintances, and I came across such people that I thought I was in the Stone Age, I seemed to be dumb by 25 percent at least when I communicated in discord or I was terribly bored, it’s difficult to explain, but that’s about how I can describe my experience.
I don’t understand the appeal. I don’t really understand what it does better than more open alternatives. Like people jump on discord to voice chat with friends? That’s a phone call.
It’s good for keeping communication in one place - I mainly use it to host ttrpg games, so my server has all the lore stuff in one channel, general chat in another, character ideas and discussion in a forum-style channel where each character can have their own thread, and a voice channel for when we’re actually playing. Each campaign gets its own category, so players can also go back and check stuff out from old campaigns. I’d like to switch to an open alternative, but the few services that offer similar functionality are self hosted or still quite early in development so aren’t reliable enough for my needs.