Hive is all about decentralisation and anonymity, freedom from censorship and freedom from governments peering over our shoulders.

Totally agree that Hive is about decentralization, anonymity and freedom from censorship... but freedom from governments peering over our shoulders by posting on a public blockchain that keeps data forever is not something Hive does. I guess maybe if you created your own frontend to post to the blockchain then it might be harder for a government to demand IP addresses or whatever, but I don't think there's anything to stop a government trying to force any of the frontends to hand over metadata.

Still... that wasn't really your main point, I think the main draw of Discord is that posts are instant, whereas posts on Hive have a 3 second delay, which makes having an instant conversation a bit more frustrating.