Comment by tombert

They don’t care about FOSS, but they care about “computer lets me do what I want”.

Discord is obviously proprietary but it’s actually a very modular platform that gives a lot of nice controls. It’s easy to make your own “server”, it’s easy to add whatever bots you want, it’s easy to moderate. From a consumer perspective, it’s “open”.

Also, I know that this wasn’t your point, but I do feel compelled to point out that Discord works fine on Linux.