steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord : linux

[+] zelifcam@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] whou@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For many people, socialization is a core part of gaming, and Discord is far and away the most common platform for that socialization.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Steam has chat

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Steam chat is complete garbo

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How so

[–] PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Desktop only (The phone app is somehow worse then the Discord app, see the Steam Chat rating).
No bots or advanced moderation
Steam restricted Are enough reason why it's usage has been limited. Still decent to use for a couple of people but lackluster to what Discord propose.

[–] pelotron@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Valve and Glorious Eggroll are going to be pissed when they find out how little Microsoft and Windows game developers care about them.

[–] PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Strongly recommend it. It even automatically fetches icons for the games via SteamGridDB (Even if they could totally just fetch it from Steam). Ain't really a fix for games using Proton, however, or making sandboxed Discord versions to get those local RPC implementation, just an alternative and more efficient way to show what you play on Steam.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ain't really a fix for games using Proton

Wdym? It works fine for Proton games as well.

[–] PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

It doesn't make use of the games original Discord RPC integrations, and their more-in-depth game details that it can bring. See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Enabling-Discord-Rich-Presence or https://github.com/EnderIce2/rpc-bridge for ways to fix it.

[–] hand@lemmy.studio 3 points 5 months ago

Looks neat!

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