In my experience, they are surprisingly permissive towards their users. I have had very few complaints while using their service. I hear people complaining about all kinds of things they say Discord is doing, but I have seen or experienced exactly zero of them. The grooming allegations at least seem credible, but all that means is that at least the platform is good enough that pedophiles will show up. You can decide if theirs is a glowing recommendation or not

They go there because its where the kids are, not because they're safer there. Grotesque people. Ive directly experienced mass censorship on discord. It was absolutely fucking crazy. I won't go into details. They're logging everything you say, forever.

I got my account deleted from Discord because I spoke wrong-think about covid and wouldn't delete my post. Fuck them.

I dunno, were you arguing with strangers about politics? Maybe I haven't seen or experienced any of that just because I mostly use Discord for hanging out online and chatting with friends. Although... Hmm...

Privacy is overrated anyway. Anonymity is where it's at.