All the topics mentioned in this subthread sound like my kind of thing. It's sad that Discord bans for that.

If you ever want to resume your communities elsewhere, perhaps check out Matrix (https://matrix.org/)? If you have the know how to host your own server, you can host a community without the risk of being shut down by an external party. People from other servers can still join because the network is federated.

I got banned for demonstrating spectre and meltdown to a work audience, during the presentation.

FML.

I agree that I wish their rules were more lax, but a trust and safety ban of a server doesn't necessarily ban everyone from the server. Just recently a server I was in got a trust and safety ban and no one got banned. The server just disappeared.

Reminds me of a time when a dedicated anti-malware server was temporarily deleted (probably due to the amount of malware samples being sent)

The only time I've does this it turned out that a feature didn't exist to do what I wanted, but you must admit the UX of creating a new IRC server is a million times worse than creating a new discord server.