Yeah, it's quite strange. Not only in the fact that it's even more closed and walled off than Reddit (as you correctly note), but it's not even the same "type"

Yeah, it's quite strange. Not only in the fact that it's even more closed and walled off than Reddit (as you correctly note), but it's not even the same "type" - Discord is an IRC-type, not a newsgroup-type. It's just plain weird in the context of a reddit alternative.