I’m with Jragon above. I don’t know if you’re going to find what you are looking for on Discord.
Yes, Discord has voice chat, but it’s not really focused around that. Channels are much more interest or group oriented. So, if you’re into “Chess” or “Overwatch”, there are certainly several popular Discords for those (but most interaction will still be text/image based). But I’m not sure how much ‘gen-voice-chat’ there really is. Wouldn’t surprise me if it existed, but that’s not what most people use it for.
From my own use, I typically leave Discord running pretty much all the time but very rarely am I on voice chat - and almost exclusively on my own or friends’ private channels to coordinate/socialize during our gaming sessions. Otherwise, there are several channels I follow for news, updates, etc on particular topics (like AI) or games.
Another suggestion if you’re lonely is trying Meetup (Not a dating site):
Meet up is a website / app that you join for free. Once there you can search for & join “meet ups” in your geographic area or you can organize them. Meet ups can be about anything: any subject of interest / hobby from sports to lifestyle to tech, to movies, people looking chat, anything. I joke with my wife about how they can be very specific, “left handed bridge players who prefer merlot”.
We signed up to make new friends after moving to a new city. Our city has literally over a thousand meet ups, it was quite overwhelming. We’re part of several meet up groups doing things like cycling, wine tasting, cards, board game night, world travellers, woodworking (me), knitting (my wife) etc. We signed up for then dropped off quite a few too.
There’s no obligation to attend anything and the meeting organizer is never supposed to “profit” from it or promote the organizer’s business, ie: a restaurant is not meant to organizer a fine dining event at their restaurant.
When you join a meet up group, you’re basically signing up for an email list and the group organizer sends out a notice to members saying the meet up group will be having an event of some sort at X place on X date. Like a gardening discussion on spring planting at the community centre.
If you have trouble getting out of the house, there may be some other type of meetups they offer in your area - or maybe online options. It worth a shot.
Several times I’ve been invited to a Discord chatroom for a World of Warcraft dungeon, and not once have I figured out the series of hoops I must jump through, and in which order, to get into the room.
I do not have experience with Discord, but I have heard of it. I’ve also heard of Omegle, which may or may not be appealing to OP. I don’t have experience with that either, but I’ve seen it on youtube videos. Basically, Omegle lets you voice chat or video chat with strangers. It pairs you up based on common interests. It kind of sounds like a dating thing, but I get the impression it’s not really. Or it could be, but it’s also just to meet people and make friends. Anyway, CCitizen, you might want to check out Omegle and let us know if it’s worthwhile.
It’s been so long. I think we were given a code or link to the main channel or whatever it’s called, which then has several rooms or subchannels. So you’d go to, say, Ruken’s Discord Funhouse, then click on the WoW voice channel with everyone else in the raid group.
I had in-person help setting it up, from someone with much more games and general computer experience.
I got on Discord probably 4 years ago after Yahoo Messenger voice chat got too unreliable. I was on Yahoo Messenger to chat with my friend while we gamed online. These days we are on Steam voice chat, but last time we were on that it was unreliable for whatever reason so we went back to Discord for one night at least.