you want an open messaging platform? cool! we have:
* extremely old small protocol with an extension library more confusing than quantum physics, and clients that look like they came from the most horrible depth of early 2010s app development
* new protocol taking inspiration from the previous one, except it's horribly overengineered, which causes implementations that aren't the reference one to basically not exist, and the reference one to constantly break
* a discord clone developed by a bunch of teenagers as a side hobby with next to no planning or really any idea what do they even want from it
* a literal discord clone that has been pushed to indefinite rebranding and restructuring