Discord is just an easy real time communication platform. It is not suited to anything that is not in the moment. It should only augment a community, but so many people use it as a replacement for one.

Memmy for Lemmy should bring it up

The government would have to employ its own people to do the economic modelling instead of relying on the same people private corporations do to assist them.

Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.