> I’m not going to tell you to go use IRC like some cranky old Thinkpad-toting unixbeard

good, we get crankier when young punks repeat our advice without understanding why it was given.

"There’s no single free/self-hostable alternative that has all of the features of Discord,"

... so, just maybe, someone who's got a project to do might want to keep with discord, despite its flaws, instead of fucking around with recreating the same thing only more philosophically pure?