Many private companies in China are actually owned and operated by their workers, Huawei is probably the most well known example of this. No wonder capitalist America is going hurr durr evil commie company owned by evil commies.
Is there any chance for a Matrix chat instead of/in addition to Discord? Discord sucks because it is proprietary, and I have to enter google captchas all the time. Matrix is open source. You could even setup a bridge so the same chat is accessible from both platforms.