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I don't think I fully understand the goal here. The post says "not many people know of Mikoto other than as "An open-source alternative to Discord", even though we've had many big features that differentiates us."

but then goes on to describe what looks like an alternative to Discord. What am I missing?

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our main differentiating factor is that we allow for higher amounts of multi-modal communication through an extensible channel system; we have a built-in wiki already, you can add additional "channel types" by writing extensions.

Ah, I understand. This is just a Discord competitor, then? Given the title of the piece and the comment I quoted, I think I was just expecting something very different and reading things through a mistaken lens.

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