Stephen Downes

The answer to the question is of course "no" though Discord's roots in online gaming make the question relevant. As the article says, " Discord is a free communications app, most similar to popular apps like Skype, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and TeamSpeak, (that) features user-friendly text, voice, and video chat." Discord supports "public or private servers that anyone can quickly set up for free." So there are many Discord servers you can connect to - here's a list and here's how to connect - and you can set up your own.