@anna Federated Discord exists already, it's IRC. IRCv3 especially is looking like it fixes a lot of shortcomings

And as always, if even half the effort that went into developing Matrix went into improving some XMPP client (say Gajim) then we could just use that, perhaps bundle it with Prosody under some brand that makes it easier for j random user to talk about it. Like I dunno, "Harmony" as a play on Discord