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Yeah, you can’t really use a Matrix account/server, to connect to Discord. You could use a bot, but even then, it would require a Discord account.
I’d advise you to make an account, using an aliasing service. Then interact with Discord through the browser, NOT the client.
I just have it pinned in the browser. Not installing the app means they get less to collect.
It is possible to use Discord from the browser without necessarily making an account, but many big servers have restrictive measures that prevent users without a verified email addreds (or even a verified phone number, in the strictest of cases) to access. This will depend on your friends' setup.
I don't know if it's possible to bridge Discord to Matrix, but I can tell you that it's got a pretty prolific API for building bots and integrations, so someone might have already built something of that kind. Alternative clients are tecnically against the TOS (afaik) but I know of people who have built large projects without ever getting any complaints from the company.
It's possible and I've done it, but you have to manually bridge each room, and keep the bridges in sync if you ever add/remove channels. There's a github issue for bridging a discord server as a space in matrix that would do that automatically, but there hasn't really been any activity on it:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord/issues/738
There is a Matrix bridge bot for Discord but the server owner has to set that up on the Discord and Matrix side first
Check out Armcord 👍
Vendetta on mobile Webcord on PC
I know you can use webhooks to post messages without an a separate account, so a server owner could set it up for you, but I don't know that you can read messages that way.
Do any of your other bridges to systems that have accounts allow you to chat without an account?