wakest likes your bugs ⁂Sep 19, 2021
Wow fucking #couchsurfing put up a paywall so you can’t even see any of your past messages or friends without a subscription of 2$ a month, federated couch surfing when?!
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So it seems the main alternatives are:
https://bewelcome.org
https://trustroots.org
https://couchers.org
BeWelcome - Open your door to the world

Meet travellers & find hosts worldwide for free. BeWelcome – for better intercultural understanding.

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#BeWelcome is GPL2 and written in PHP
https://github.com/BeWelcome/rox

#TrustRoots is MIT and looks to be in NodeJS
https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots

#Couchers is also MIT and looks like they are going with Python, TypeScript and React
https://github.com/Couchers-org/couchers

GitHub - BeWelcome/rox: BeWelcome lets you share a place to stay, connect with travellers, meet up and find accommodation on your journey. It is and will always be a free, open source, non for profit, democratic community.

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@onan maybe the first step is to open issues in all three of these projects and propose federation. They may not have ever heard of the idea or know that the #fediverse exists at all.
Sep 19, 2021 at 12:32pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKSep 19, 2021

@liaizon @onan

out of all 3, #Couchers seems to have taken the most effort to fully address the human/community safeguarding issues that plague any service like this (incidentally, I'm not sure if people realise that in many countries the moment they invite someone into their house they incur a formal legal duty of care to look after them and can incur legal penalties if things go wrong...)