It is definitely unrelated to Steam.
This thread was added on March 26, 2020, with posts from Sarno.
We’ve been able to reproduce the social panel getting it wrong, and it’s something we plan to look at in future - I wouldn’t be surprised if it was rewritten from the ground up - but currently we’re very busy and it’s not something we’ve been able to allocate time for just yet.
Our testing has involved both the standalone client and the Steam client - and they’ve been about equally unreliable, which is one reason I don’t believe the issue is related to Steam.