I just looked and there's 86 members in the discord. The channels we have are vidya games, music, TV & anime, IRL happenings, fishing, creative endeavors & self released music, news around the world, specs / PC tech posting, food, sports, I think you see where I'm goin with this. It's very active, and a 86 member group chat sounds absolutely miserable. I have discord notifications turned off, I log in every once in a while as I don't even have social media any more.

If someone likes anime and doesn't like sports, they can tune out of those conversations all together v easily by muting a channel

Like it or not discord fulfills a niche that goes beyond texting or social media, which I think fills the role a million times worse as it's just posting updates for some likes and random ass comments compared to conversations