Make Diplomacy Connections
NADF
The North American Diplomacy Federation is led by President Katie Gray from New Mexico, along with her Board members Keith Worstell from North Carolina, Justin Loar from California and Matthew Crill and Emmett Wainwright from Colorado. Katie and her crew would be glad to assist any hobbyist looking for information about the game, upcoming tournaments, playing online, or any other Dip-related subject. Please come join us at our discord server at https://discord.gg/TkD2HwD4MF
All tournaments sanctioned by the NADF enforce the Code of Conduct, a set of rules intended to promote fair play and a welcoming environment for all hobbyists. You can access the COC here
Connect with Local Hobbyists
A Face-to-Face Registry has been established to allow players to connect with each other for house games and club play. You can sign up here and view an interactive worldwide map of everyone who has registered here. In addition, there may be a club in your local area. You can view a list of many of the clubs and tournaments across North America in the Play page.
Other Connections
Facebook Groups
Many of the Discord servers and websites listed on the Play page would be excellent places to connect to the Diplomacy hobby. In addition, Facebook has several groups and pages to help with this process such as World Diplomacy Face-to-Face, https://www.facebook.com/groups/WorldDipcon2014, a group for European players, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1500292310187264, and the London Diplomacy Club https://www.facebook.com/groups/LondonDiplomacyClub
Websites
David Cohen’s Diplomiscellany is focused mainly on variants. http://diplomiscellany.tripod.com/index.html
The UK diplomacy website can be found here: www.diplomacy.co.uk
Diplomacy websites don’t just come in English. Ludomaniac has been hosting games in the German language for almost 25 years. To play in French, try the French language league for online play here: https://world-diplomacy-wiki.fandom.com/wiki/Ligue_Francophone_de_Diplomacy_Virtuelle#Duree_des_parties To play in Italian, try http://forum.webdiplomacy.it/
Redscape is a site which has been hosting human-GMed games since 2000, but is not exclusively devoted to Diplomacy, though that is still the predominant game played.
If you want a fun retro experience of playing Diplomacy like in the zine days, there are several options available to you online. One is the LastOrders! online zine run from the UK by Simon Langley-Evans. Another would be Doug Kent’s Eternal Sunshine which started as a postal zine decades ago but which now is an online publication.
The Reddit group https://www.reddit.com/r/diplomacy/ is focused on game advice, hobby events, discussion topics and more.