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.

:earth_africa: 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, democ...

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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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Show threadwakest ⁂Sep 19, 2021
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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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> …