Gamers only: do you use the social features of gaming platforms?
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Finally, I think Fediverse users are generally more protective of their privacy than the general population.
Anyway, my answer: yes. I have a profile on XBox, Switch, and Google Play Games. I connect with friends on all the platforms. I share achievements and activities and screenshots and sometimes chat.
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Finally, I think Fediverse users are generally more protective of their privacy than the general population.
@evan I think there’s also an aspect of differing opinions on what it means to “use” a feature.
If I have a community “profile” on steam, but I never think of it, never look at the friend requests, never willingly interact with it, I would say I do not use it. But the bean counters at Valve would presumably count me as part of their “social users” population.
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Others were quick to say that they only use social features with real friends and family. I'm not sure why that would be a "but..."; it's the whole point of those features.
@evan Seeing what my kids are playing is the most used steam social feature, followed by occasional chats with them.
It seemed to need clarification from what I consider most people's usage social features of a gaming platform.
Screaming obscenities at strangers or at by strangers, never had much of a draw for me.
Primarily single player gamer, but yeah I'm "on" just about every platform, but good luck interacting with me there for the first time.
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@evan I think there’s also an aspect of differing opinions on what it means to “use” a feature.
If I have a community “profile” on steam, but I never think of it, never look at the friend requests, never willingly interact with it, I would say I do not use it. But the bean counters at Valve would presumably count me as part of their “social users” population.
@philip Sure. It could also be related to your self-image.
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@evan Seeing what my kids are playing is the most used steam social feature, followed by occasional chats with them.
It seemed to need clarification from what I consider most people's usage social features of a gaming platform.
Screaming obscenities at strangers or at by strangers, never had much of a draw for me.
Primarily single player gamer, but yeah I'm "on" just about every platform, but good luck interacting with me there for the first time.
@mrcopilot so, yeah, here's another issue. It seems like a lot of people have strongly negative ideas of what "social features" of a game or game platform could be -- especially related to interactions with strangers.
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@evan Since I don't know what any of that means, I will assume I am not a gamer.
@gam3 OK!
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@mrcopilot so, yeah, here's another issue. It seems like a lot of people have strongly negative ideas of what "social features" of a game or game platform could be -- especially related to interactions with strangers.
@evan Ever start a game of Marvel Rivals with the live chat sound on?
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@evan Ever start a game of Marvel Rivals with the live chat sound on?
@mrcopilot No, but I'm sure it's a real mess. I don't usually play multiplayer games with strangers; I don't think that is the only "social feature" of gaming platforms, though.
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Anyway, my answer: yes. I have a profile on XBox, Switch, and Google Play Games. I connect with friends on all the platforms. I share achievements and activities and screenshots and sometimes chat.
In my book "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web", I talk about federating gaming platforms. I think you should be able to connect to an account on Steam from your XBox (or Mastodon) account. Add them to your friends list, and follow their activities.
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In my book "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web", I talk about federating gaming platforms. I think you should be able to connect to an account on Steam from your XBox (or Mastodon) account. Add them to your friends list, and follow their activities.
@evan kind of related, but I've been thinking about drawing up a short proposal for @lichess regarding ActivityPub... They have user blogs, too, which could be the first entry point (but my dream would be correspondence chess available to the fediverse powered by magic links managed by the lichess servers)
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@evan kind of related, but I've been thinking about drawing up a short proposal for @lichess regarding ActivityPub... They have user blogs, too, which could be the first entry point (but my dream would be correspondence chess available to the fediverse powered by magic links managed by the lichess servers)
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