Discord outside gaming community?

TLDR: I think the impossibility of having Multiple Accounts active at the same time is holding Discord back. Specifically decision makers (like myself) are still hesitating to create Discord servers for work/educational institutions because that would force the community to expose their "gaming" identities (or get stuck with no practical way to switch between two accounts, at the risk of missing notifications on one of them).

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Here is the long version: many of us are not only avid gamers, but also successful nerds. In my case I'm a tenured professor and vice-director of a Physics Institute (which makes me responsible for Student Affairs). With this whole COVID tragedy, we are looking for a way to keep students (specially graduate students) interacting with each other beyond virtual lectures, and we all know Discord would be perfect for that (specially now with video integration). I won't go into the advantages over Zoom, Meet, Skype, etc... as we all know what they are. Let me focus on the one big disadvantage.

I went forward and did some prospecting with the students and MANY expressed concerns about having their gamer side exposed on something like that. I mean, even when you change name in a particular server, your profile picture is the same and your account name is still visible. I can sympathize with that, after all my account is named "Darkblood", which is a cool powerful name (according to the 13-year old me that created that screen name so long ago), but wouldn't really go well for a Tenured Professor. On the flip side, changing picture / account name to the "real me" would expose that info in some gaming communities which are sometimes toxic / not safe enough. I recently participated in a physics conference that actually used Discord, and witnessed some people expressing the same concerns.

I think this is holding you back, as the people that know and love Discord (gamers mostly) also love their privacy / digital personas to be separated from real life. And these are the only guys that can take Discord to new territory.

So my suggestion is this: find a way to allow multiple accounts to be on the same client and "sort of active". In my opinion it would be enough to be able to receive notifications from both accounts, even if putting one "online" (or joining a voice channel) would immediately put the other on "invisible" mode. Having all servers from both accounts visible on the sidebar would be stellar (as to keep an eye on all the chats). I, again, also admin some gaming servers, so I have to keep an eye on my gaming communities and cannot just log out of that during work hours.