I no longer use discord, but I used to for a few comfy communities around the games I personally liked, each and every discord server I joined suffered this decay.
We had a guild in one game, it was fairly small but people knew each other and it was generally nice, over time however the number of players diminished and the only ones that were left were the people who personally knew each other.
We tried to recruit new people to keep the game going, however the people that joined were either utter faggots that caused more problems than it was worth or people who simply brought nothing to to the table and just stayed AFK on the server.
I was also part of another server, this one diminished in another way, it became again, a personal friend group that grew increasingly hostile or dismissive to outsiders who might want to join. The server was publicly advertised but had some dramas with other similar servers, so you find people branching off, setting up their own discord and shunning anyone else because they're part of "the other server".
I once attempted to join a server for the same game out of curiosity, they seemed outwardly friendly and nice, but they were hyper autistic abut what channel you should post, they had a fucking channel for "lore", then "lore discussion", then lore for each fucking playable character race in the game. Needless to say, the person running it and the moderators were power tripping anime avatar fags an all round insufferable cunts.
The fuckers even had a 'makeup and beauty' channel which was a clear sign they were using the server as their own personal facebook... Oh yea, they also had manhand nail painting pictures.
Why is it that when it comes to Discord, those who use anime avatars are either troons, nazis, or both?
That panel comic meme where it starts off with two people playing game then normalfags eventually take over causing the originalfags to start a new thing comes to mind... I can't fucking find it anywhere but that explains community decay pretty well. fucking found it