I guess, but even without talking about forums, even a subreddit would at least be publicly accessible and searchable. Using discord is effortless but antagonistic, at least a subresdit would be both effortless and in the service of the public.

Sure, I’d prefer an open source self hosted platform, but I’m hard pressed to find anything worse than discord

Nah thanks, I’d rather have bots than rely on a total lack of privacy