Discord is the ultimate gatekeeper of information these days, and the company behind it cannot be trusted with its user data.

"ultimate gatekeeper" seems a bit strong for a niche group chat program.

200,000,000+ monthly active users is not niche at all, it is among the most widely used communications platforms on the planet. That userbase is comparable in size to Uber or Steam.

Besides being a centralized, proprietary data harvesting operation that has slowly started selectively enforcing mandatory identity verification requirements, despite their previous identity verification provider already getting hacked and leaking 70,000 people's PII?

Nothing says "hacker culture" like voluntarily submitting your photo ID and a real-time facial scan to big brother so your de-anonymized communications can be permanently logged and used against you by the state as soon as a future administration decides you're a disfavored person.