Author: Trustroots
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nostroots: first apk and progress report
We set up a Nostroots home page, with the most important information for normal users. For devs there’s https://github.com/trustroots/nostroots And here’s (most of) the progress report that we wrote for November 2024 till April 2025. Project updates At November’s hackathon week we decided to go for expo.dev with react native. This has worked out well…
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Nostr updates
We recently held a weekend hackathon to make notes.trustroots.org even better! A lot of our work focused on making sure that the notes we display on our map are trustworthy. We want to avoid showing any spam or invalid content, so we’ve set up a system to verify that notes come from real Trustroots users.…
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Moving Trustroots onto nostr
tl;dr we want to make sure that Trustroots exists two decades from now and unlock sharing beyond hospitality: rides, bicycles, meals, parties, etc. Trustroots has already had a brush with death. The project lead stepped away without a word. Only one other person had access to most of the servers. We’ve seen similar issues with…
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Trustroots Stories and News End of 2021 Edition
Table of Contents: ~ New Circles ~ Lets Meet in the Middle ~ The Traveling Psychology Advisor on Tour~ #Trustroots Photos Around the World~ Want to Join the Trustroots Team? ~ Relevant Links Places are open, places are closed, again, Winter is here, Summer is here, migrations are happening all over, new love is blossoming,…
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Trustroots Travel Stories and News September Edition
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has come to a close with the seasons changing and the leaves beginning to Fall. There has been traveling and hosting happening and in this edition of this Newsletter we highlight some of those hosting experiences. We also share some stories of hitchhiking, building off-grid, how to host a meetup…
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Decolonising Into Circles
You might be wondering why Trustroots is changing the name of Tribes. In this collaborative article we will try to explain what’s behind the change and why this matters. It has mainly been written by Mariyano, a Brazilian backpacker currently under lockdown in Buenos Aires due to the pandemic, and Martin A. who spent a…
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Journeys Through the Night
Community Stories, Vol. II Welcome to the second part of our community letter to ourselves! In case you missed the first one with Covid-19 lockdown experiences, you can find it here. This time around we are travelling through the night – sleeping at police stations in Pristina, trainhopping to escape from where nobody stops for…
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How is Trustroots different from Couchsurfing?
The elephant in the room Couchsurfing, the largest hospitality exchange network has announced on the 14th of May, that they will be requiring many of their users to pay a monthly subscription. Since Trustroots is also enabling hospitality exchange, this is very relevant to us. While Couchsurfing hasn’t claimed to be a charity or a…