Open Hospitality Network @ohn@floss.social

Had a really nice hangout this morning with folks from @ohn and it was really fun! It's great to meet new people and realize that maybe I'm making new friends.

It also got me thinking about richness of social interaction and humanity where at one extreme we operate in text and emojis while at the other end we can spend time together in the same physical space with no tech required.

In this light, Open Hospitality Network (https://openhospitality.network/) is taking on perhaps the hardest kind of technology project where people use this tech intentionally to connect with real people.

What if the social platforms we use, instead of suggesting we follow celebrities to increase engagement, saw that we're spending an unhealthy amount of time in a low-quality medium and suggested we pick up the phone or arrange a video chat or meetup?

The open #hospitality network @ohn is a #FreeSoftware initiative that wants to bring #couchsurfing to the #fediverse. <3

#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

@liaizon there is discussion right now in the @ohn #Matrix chatroom. The HN article led some new people to the room.

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