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Hi all,

This may be a bit of a message in a bottle.

I was a active lurker in the OSR and indie RPG design circles on
Google+ back in the day,
and like many others I migrated when G+ shut down. I went to MeWe
initially,
but left not long after, and as a result I lost touch with a lot of
people IrCOd
been regularly following.

Lately IrCOve been trying to reconnect with that older OSR / DIY /
small-press
design crowd, the folks who were sharing drafts, blogs, odd mechanics,
and
half-finished games in comment threads, and IrCOm wondering who, if
anyone,
from that Google+ diaspora is still around here.

If you were part of that scene and are still reading, IrCOd be glad to
say hello again. No big agenda, no attempt to recreate G+ (that ship
has sailed),
just looking to re-establish a few conversations.

Thanks for indulging the nostalgia,
--
"'Twas in the static that I was born, a phantom of the pixelated
plains." - Mr. Rogers.

I've been using Mr. Rogers as my Gamer Tag since the Xbox came out in
2001 while playing Halo with my Army buddies in the Barracks.
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MrRogers <mrrogersmaddenfilmroom@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

This may be a bit of a message in a bottle.

ha, cast into a little frequented part of the seas I shall say,
but well met!

I was a active lurker in the OSR and indie RPG design circles on
Google+ back in the day,
and like many others I migrated when G+ shut down. I went to MeWe
initially,
but left not long after, and as a result I lost touch with a lot of
people IrCOd
been regularly following.

I was late to the party on G+ myself. Had a couple of contacts around
2014, 2015. When it it close down again?

Lately IrCOve been trying to reconnect with that older OSR / DIY / small-press
design crowd, the folks who were sharing drafts, blogs, odd mechanics,
and
half-finished games in comment threads, and IrCOm wondering who, if
anyone,
from that Google+ diaspora is still around here.

Good stuff for sure. If you're interested in the intersection of
D&D, DIY, blogs and odd mechanics, we have a little community sort
of gravitating around this place: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%c3%bcrich/HomePage
we even have a little bi-anual zine: https://lkh.sdf-eu.org/wandererbill/grenzland/

There are a few readers and posters still around over here. Let's say
about four maybe? 8)
I do like usenet for it's slowness.

Back at the time I went onto Mastodon and there definitely was some
notable influx of users from G+ to the Fediverse. That would actually
be my recommendation if you haven't done so already. Get an account
on say dice.camp or tabletop.social, write a short #introduction and
see what happens. You'll probably find some familiar handles.

These days a lot of folks have been absorbed by the various Discords.
There is one well known OSR Discord, but I'm not sure where it's got
it's landing page and how to invite users to that instance.

On the other hand Discord might see some decline due to the recent
kerfuffle about them using withpersona.com's identification services for
age verification.

If you were part of that scene and are still reading, IrCOd be glad to
say hello again. No big agenda, no attempt to recreate G+ (that ship
has sailed),
just looking to re-establish a few conversations.

Thanks for indulging the nostalgia,

Well, this *is* a nostalgic place, isn't it?

On Fedi I'm @wandererbill@tabletop.social btw.

Cheers!
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Laurens Kils-H|+tten presented the following explanation :

MrRogers <mrrogersmaddenfilmroom@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

This may be a bit of a message in a bottle.

ha, cast into a little frequented part of the seas I shall say,
but well met!

I was a active lurker in the OSR and indie RPG design circles on
Google+ back in the day,
and like many others I migrated when G+ shut down. I went to MeWe
initially,
but left not long after, and as a result I lost touch with a lot of
people IrCOd
been regularly following.

I was late to the party on G+ myself. Had a couple of contacts around
2014, 2015. When it it close down again?

G+ closed down in 2018, with about 6 months of warning if I remember correctly.

Lately IrCOve been trying to reconnect with that older OSR / DIY /
small-press
design crowd, the folks who were sharing drafts, blogs, odd mechanics,
and
half-finished games in comment threads, and IrCOm wondering who, if
anyone,
from that Google+ diaspora is still around here.

Good stuff for sure. If you're interested in the intersection of
D&D, DIY, blogs and odd mechanics, we have a little community sort
of gravitating around this place: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%c3%bcrich/HomePage
we even have a little bi-anual zine: https://lkh.sdf-eu.org/wandererbill/grenzland/

I'll check out the wiki and zine, thank you!

There are a few readers and posters still around over here. Let's say
about four maybe? 8)
I do like usenet for it's slowness.

Back at the time I went onto Mastodon and there definitely was some
notable influx of users from G+ to the Fediverse. That would actually
be my recommendation if you haven't done so already. Get an account
on say dice.camp or tabletop.social, write a short #introduction and
see what happens. You'll probably find some familiar handles.

I registered for an account on dice.camp but I'm waiting on an admin to approve my account, it's been a couple days already. So it'll be sad if
the admin is MIA. I'll check out tabletop.social soon though.

These days a lot of folks have been absorbed by the various Discords.
There is one well known OSR Discord, but I'm not sure where it's got
it's landing page and how to invite users to that instance.

Yeah Discord is not good for Open Communities. Once you go to Discord
you're making a Gated Community at that point. Discord has signle
handedly killed off Stack Overkill and so much good programming
information is gated off if you're not in those servers.

On the other hand Discord might see some decline due to the recent
kerfuffle about them using withpersona.com's identification services for
age verification.

That's how I got into Usenet recently. I figured it was time to branch
out into other communites. It really feels like the old internet from
30 years ago and it feels really good. I'm even taking a chance on the
Dark Web and seeing if anything good can be found there. But it's hard
with no really good search engine for the dark web.

If you were part of that scene and are still reading, IrCOd be glad to
say hello again. No big agenda, no attempt to recreate G+ (that ship
has sailed),
just looking to re-establish a few conversations.

Thanks for indulging the nostalgia,

Well, this *is* a nostalgic place, isn't it?

On Fedi I'm @wandererbill@tabletop.social btw.

I'll try to track you down on there. So much in the community I've
missed in the past 8 years.

Cheers!

--
"'Twas in the static that I was born, a phantom of the pixelated
plains." - Mr. Rogers.

I've been using Mr. Rogers as my Gamer Tag since the Xbox came out in
2001 while playing Halo with my Army buddies in the Barracks.
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Well met! I also left from Google+ to Mastodon and so thatrCOs a big part of
my only RPG presence, and then I am on the services lkh mentioned. Efya




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