I don’t think Stoat will ever have a realistic chance of usurping Discord

Agreed. My comment is for the many users who would leave but can’t because “all my friends are here”.

We wouldn’t have this problem if Discord and Stoat were federated (I know it’s not on their roadmap).

So the next best thing is bridge bots.

We need bots that connect your Stoat (hate that name) to your Discord account, so you can still message the people who refuse to leave.

That’s how Facebook stole users from MySpace back in the day™.