I also suggest Matrix instead of Discord.

No. Discord hosts anime communities already. I see no reason to create another Discord server since we have our place here already.

I’m going to suggest Matrix (or an old school IRC) over Discord at this point. No reason to direct from lemmy back to a closed commercial ecosystem.

I think a time will eventually come where we should introduce a chat group… but only once we’ve saturated the available bandwidth that this core community provides. Until then, we should focus on directing conversations into community text posts to drum up activity & interest rather than hiding them with a sidechannel.

FWIW: when the day does come, I’d rather we don’t use Discord. Part of my aversion to Discord is personal – I think it’s a bloated and annoying application – but I mainly just don’t feel like it’s apropos to Lemmy’s culture. We’re on a federated FOSS community, so let’s keep to that and use a federated FOSS chat protocol (i.e.: matrix).

I’d honestly rather keep things open source and get a Spacebar chat server set up. I don’t think it’ll be long before Discord goes the way of Reddit.