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Part of the reason that I game so little these days is because covid taught me that discussion groups on Zoom meet my needs of convenient socialization more than multiplayer team death-matches. I facilitate discussion groups over Zoom as part of my job, but I also regularly participate in discussion groups with my spiritual community. I'll always prioritize in-person meetings, but as we all know, the convenience of group video calls is often the best option. My personal opinion is that hybrid meetings are awful and I would prefer to just have two separate meetings than deal with a zoom-room and a physical room of people trying to be friendly and considerate of one another. I have not seen a hybrid set up be pleasurable. I'm interested in hearing how y'all are using this tool, alternative platforms included. For me, I facilitate discussion groups for evidence-based health interventions on Zoom. I also attend and sometimes faciliate a Buddhist book-study/meditation class. Previously I was involved in political organizing over zoom on local, state, and national levels. The state-level meetings seemed to make the most sense to me, but all of them were effective in their own ways. I have yet to just hang out with a group of people without any particular focus; honestly that doesn't really appeal to me. Having a shared explicit project or set of prompts is important for me and I think that may apply to in-person socialization as well; I don't just go out with folks for example. It has to be a book discussion or something. So how are y'all using it? What works well? What do you see a positive potential for?