I’m interested in something that games and front-ends can implement in order to play online and connect with friends, independent of the actual front-end in use.
This would allow gamers to connect without being reliant on companies’ stores.
Is there such a thing? Are there any discussions about creating one?
The standard protocol for friends list and “who’s online” would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
Or Matrix.