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It's not free to set up a server on discord. It's not possible at all.
I know what you actually mean, the word server means that the mods and admins have control over it and they have control over how data stored on the server gets used. The discord definition is misleading in this regard.
On discord, neither of these are true: if the admin's account is banned (or "suspended" until a phone number is given) they don't have any control anymore, and regardless of this they don't have any control over how the data is used (which includes private date like messages of users, how much and when are they online, etc).
Yes, I'm using Discord's terminology for a discussion about Discord. What they call a "server" is not actually a server, but that's the term they went with.
I could've used the Discord dev term "guild", since that's how "servers" are referred to internally and in the code, but I don't think as many people would understand what I meant by that.
A terminology that is (designed to be) very misleading.
I know I'm just a random internet stranger, but please, don't use the "server" name for discord communities.