Gamers only: do you use the social features of gaming platforms?
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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)