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Not to be That Guy, but Discord is another corporate proprietary walled garden just like Twitter and Reddit and given recent experiences I think it should be avoided by the Fediverse community. See also this blog post (I am not affiliated with its author, I just think it expresses the point well).
There are several alternatives. If you want real-time chat, Matrix or IRC would work. If you just want to make announcements, an RSS feed or mailing list would do the trick.
Just my two cents. Thanks for your work in setting up and maintaining this instance!
Edit: Bonus see also
Hey! To be clear, [email protected] will remain the main communication channel going forward. I am already on Matrix as well, so for sure during any Lemmy incidents I will be active in the Lemmy channels on Matrix - if you're already on Matrix, you're covered.
This Discord is just something supplementary, specifically aimed at people who are not using Matrix. There won't be any announcements that are only made on Discord or anything like that!
Which Matrix channels? I made an account on matrix.org before but didn't see any channels that interested me.
https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org
Is there a benefit of Matrix vs Revolt? I've not looked into either of them really. Revolt was the one everyone seemed to be pushing recently. This is the first I've heard of Matrix.
Matrix is more established and also decentralized. It can do End-To-End-Encryption and is backed by more people.