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I strongly disagree. Multiple times I've been playing a game and a friend saw my Discord status and chatted with me about it. It's just another way for my friends to see my interests, nothing new on the internet.
Would I want this status to be displayed somewhere else (especially a more FOSSy place)? Hell yeah. But there isn't any, and the people that rarely talk to me and are into gaming, aren't, unfortunately, on anywhere else but Discord.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !discordapp@lemmy.world
For many people, socialization is a core part of gaming, and Discord is far and away the most common platform for that socialization.
Steam has chat
It's not a matter of what people can use, but what people do use. Like it or not, Discord is the de facto standard, and it's a lot easier to install workarounds that make Discord usable on Linux than it is to convince all your friends to switch platforms.
Steam chat is complete garbo
How so
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !discordapp@lemmy.world
Valve and Glorious Eggroll are going to be pissed when they find out how little Microsoft and Windows game developers care about them.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !discordapp@lemmy.world