wakest ⁂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.
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...)

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#BeWelcome already has an open issue since 2018: https://github.com/BeWelcome/rox/issues/90

#TrustRoots already has an issue as well: https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/issues/2287

#OpenHospitalityNetwork already has a fork of Trustroots who is working on adding ActivityPub: https://github.com/OpenHospitalityNetwork/fedi-trustroots/issues

Tagging @weex because I see them in the issues there already

[feature] ActivityPub federation · Issue #90 · BeWelcome/rox

Some community-focused social platforms started adopting a common protocol so users on different platforms and servers can interact with each other. This would most likely be a very big change to t...

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Thanks to a few folks for pointing out the already existing discussion on SocialHub about hospitality exchange (I didn’t know this term before) https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/hospitality-exchange-community-considers-moving-to-the-fediverse/1765
Hospitality exchange community considers moving to the fediverse ;)

I outlined the reasons in my into post Hello from hospitality exchange community devs! The idea is drafted here: https://github.com/mariha/federated-trustroots/discussions/3 I’d like to discuss the idea and possibly get some help in the direction where to go next. In particular, I am not sure if ActivityPub is what we should use to implement our federation. We are not social media platforms. (Photo by Tim Douglas from Pexels)

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Show threadwakest ⁂Sep 19, 2021
And thanks to @humanetech for starting a discussion about this on another part of the fediverse: https://lemmy.ml/post/66076
Brainstorming for Hospitality Exchange Community on the Fediverse - Lemmy

## <a href="https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/hospitality-exchange-community-considers-moving-to-the-fediverse/1765">Hospitality exchange community considers moving to the fediverse</a> …

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A random coincidence: someone submitted an article that made it to the front page of hacker news about this issue right before I started posting about this today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28583583
Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com | Hacker News

Show threadSean TilleySep 19, 2021
@liaizon When I was looking for a new job in 2016, I almost worked for the guy that bought the rights to it, and was trying to bring it back.

I ended up taking a different direction, especially after somebody told me the guy was kind of unhinged. But, I always kind of wondered about what happened to CS.
Show threadSebastian LasseSep 19, 2021

@sean @liaizon

Please support Mariah, let's federate couchsurfing:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/hospitality-exchange-community-considers-moving-to-the-fediverse/1765

also
https://github.com/WelcometoMyGarden/welcometomygarden/issues/108

and then it would appear on the sick ActivityPub map I am doing now for redaktor in the other window.
Would be nice if it has an `icon` property with e.g. a couch svg … :)

Hospitality exchange community considers moving to the fediverse ;)

I outlined the reasons in my into post Hello from hospitality exchange community devs! The idea is drafted here: https://github.com/mariha/federated-trustroots/discussions/3 I’d like to discuss the idea and possibly get some help in the direction where to go next. In particular, I am not sure if ActivityPub is what we should use to implement our federation. We are not social media platforms. (Photo by Tim Douglas from Pexels)

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@sl007 @sean thank you Sebastian for posting the link to the SocialHub thread I didn’t think to look there but glad so much already came up over there!