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A big shoutout to @Wilhelm Fitzpatrick for this info: basically, both on the federation (diaspora) and fediverse (mastodon), if a post is created, it's broadcast to everyone who follows the creator of the post, and thus it appears on the hubs/servers the followers are on.
So let's say I create a post here with my friendica account. Both @Rafu ?? :heart_pan: (on tabletop.social, a mastodon hub) and @Wilhelm Fitzpatrick (on joindiaspora.com, a disapora hub) follow me. This means that my post is now visible on both their hubs. Specifically, if I add a hashtag to my post, that hashtag is now on their two hubs, and can be searched/filtered for. And if they post (or reshare) the hashtag, it will spread over to all hubs of their followers, and so on. It's not retroactive, i.e. my post won't show up on their follower's hubs, but those followers could decide to follow me and if I made another post (or re-shared my own post some time later), it will show up (and be discoverable) on their hubs too.

This actually sounds more complicated than it is. Basically, while it's not perfect, hashtags do propagate through the fediverse and federation.
- make a public post with the #gplusRPG hashtag
- follow the hashtag itself so that other people's posts show up in your stream
- follow new people
- from time to time make the public post again, so that it reaches farther and farther :D

A big thanks also to whoever added the #gplusRPG hashtag to the #3x3RPGs posts (I think it was @Michael Miller?). The hashtag has piggy-backed the post's success, and I find the idea very good because #3x3RPGs is a beautiful way to introduce yourself to other RPG players. Good job!
Michael also posted the hashtag over to twitter, thanks for that too! :D

Hashtag to discover G+ refugees of the RPG community


So, I've been around for a few weeks now and IMO the fediverse/federation isn't very good at letting people discover each other. So I want to try something: let's use the #gplusRPG hashtag to find people coming from G+ who landed on diaspora, friendica, mastodon or whatever.

If you are interested in tabletop RPGs and come from the Google+ RPG community, and if you want to find like-minded people on the fediverse/federation, share a public post with the #gplusRPG hashtag, so that others can find you easily!

I was never a Gplus user, but I hope lots and lots of #gplusRPG people manage to connect here in the land of the free. In fact, it feels like this is my chance to join you all in online conversation w/out worrying about corporate gatekeepers, at last.
Rafu mastodon (AP)
...e naturalmente non c'รจ nessun motivo per cui i giocatori italiani non possano conversare anche nella propria lingua! #gplusRPG
You were never?? My memory tells me otherwise, but I most probably mix up the late GcG forum and the early GcG+ community. Anyways, yes, I must admin I'm liking it here. It's still with some rough edgesโ€ฆ but I hope it will get better fast, and self-hosting (with Friendica) is really easy!
Never. The shift from using old-fashioned webforums to G+ as the main platform made me feel quite left out of RPG conversations. You probably remember me using some earlier, simpler Goggle service such as Buzz or Talk.
Tartarosso mastodon (AP)
for years I was able to contact rafu only by writing to Barbara on WhatsApp ! Yes I could write him an e-mail, but it was too old fashioned :).
Sure, not to mention we've been living a whopping 3,500 meters apart! Literally impossible to meet up on a regular basis!
Michael Miller diaspora (via DFRN)
Thanks. I remember we used to do #3x3rpgs back on the Forge every now and then to promote community. This week seemed like the time.