Some of my internet friends tried to get me to use guilded back when I decided to get my youtube community off of discord. I looked at it and decided that I didn't want to lock myself into another walled garden.
That's not a criticism per se; I'm not trying to say that guilded is crap or anything, just that it's proprietary like Discord, and if the people that own it (or if it changes hands and the next owners) decide to go full-Maoist, then you're sunk again.
I decided instead to run my own Matrix (
https://matrix.org/) homeserver. Matrix is "sort of" like Discord, but different, but serves the same purpose. It is a federated service, meaning that anyone who wants to can run their own homeserver on their own server hardware, but still join and participate in channels and spaces hosted on other homeservers. There is also a more-or-less "official" Matrix homeserver that most people use, but I decided to run my own just because nerdrage.
It is similar in design to other federated social media platforms, like Mastodon and Peertube, but uses a different protocol. This whole ecosystem of federated platforms is colloquially known as the "Fediverse" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57uhCQBEk0 ).
Although the fediverse community (other than the centrist-type cypherpunks) seems to cluster around the far ends of the political spectrum, my experience has been largely positive. Although I don't often do much outside of my own little community of Odysee/YouTube followers. This "far-end" clustering is unsurprising though. It's kind of like the wild west, and I think that once more "normies" ditch the walled gardens and embrace federated platforms, things will settle down. But for that to happen, we have to get more normie-stuff going on over there. So I'd encourage y'all to take a look at these platforms, and share here if you decide to get set up on any of them.