Nostroots Collective 2024-05

[chmac]

tl;dr We’re organizing a Nostr Trustroots Collective this May near Berlin.

What

We want to nostrify trustroots.

When

Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th of May 2024.
Feel free to arrive a day or three beforehand.

Where

1 hour train ride from Berlin. Precise details shared with participants.

Why

In 2022 the main person behind Trustroots stepped away from the project, without even a message. When we realized email had been down for 5 weeks, we fixed it and made sure to increase the bus factor a little.

We think it is worth our time and energy to work towards gift economy social networks that do not rely on any specific person or organization, so effectively we want to make ourselves redundant. By moving onto Nostr development will become distributed and not centralized like it is now, so everyone can volunteer in their own autonomous way and with whomever they please.

Read more at https://github.com/Trustroots/nostroots

How, goals

Implement basic features in Trustroots that will make it possible for anyone to build Nostr apps connecting this.

• run a trustroots relay server or two
• only accessible to trustroots users
• utilize geo features
• trust on nostr, any related NIPs?
• build adjacent nostr stuff, e.g. for hitchhikers or other trustroots circles
  • nostr notes relevant to hitchhikers, also great for trustroots hitchhiking circle and hitchwiki
  • NIP-07 log in to mediawiki extension, great for hitchwiki and trashwiki

Wanna come join? Fill in this form.

(If you can't make it or want to participate remotely you can use this Google Form)

NOTE: We are not seeking general feedback on this nostr mission, but if you insist on sharing that, please do so in a new issue and not here. This issue is about organising the collective.

[Thatoo]

May I express my concern to see Trustroots becoming like Hospitalityclub and Couchsurfing an isolated plateform keeping its users captive...
Please reconsider this project and rejoin the effort of an Open Hospitality Network through the fediverse.

[guaka]

@Thatoo your concern is welcome. But in this case it seems quite a bit out of place, considering that what we're trying to achieve is exactly the opposite of keeping users captive. Nostr is much less captive than user/pass auth based fediverse nodes.

Anyway, you are welcome to work on whatever makes users less captive, here are some ideas: Trustroots/trustroots#2669 (but note this is not the focus of the collective we're organizing in May)
And if we manage to progress with nostroots it can make sense to look into https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr to set up bridges to the hospex fediverse.

[guaka]

OK, found this issue BeWelcome/rox#90, no actual ActivityPub work done, and well, let me put it this way, it's a bit lonely on the mount everest.

[chmac]

@Thatoo Please open a new issue for discussion or feedback about the project in general, this issue is about the collective in May.

[rosano]

I'm a bit sad the browser web interface is unsustainable, as many people might not be able to easily navigate these more tech-leaning concepts and spaces. This discussion is also on GitHub which generally favours people with a developer mindset.

I tried to learn a bit about nostr to understand what this would mean and it isn't clear yet to me but I'll keep exploring more; I read the Wikipedia page, this introduction, and the comparison with Mastodon / ActivityPub. Might be good to share with any announcements some inclusively-written introductions to the technology and how Trustroots would work there (maybe I could even make one later).

[chmac]

@zweifeln I moved your comment to a new issue, this issue is not the place for discussion of nostroots, it is for organising the collective.

[dreirik]

I just saw this event announcement by chance and wanted to ask if I can put you it / you want to put it on www.foss.events ?

[chmac]

I just saw this event announcement by chance and wanted to ask if I can put you it / you want to put it on www.foss.events ?

I added it now.

[dreirik]

I just saw this event announcement by chance and wanted to ask if I can put you it / you want to put it on www.foss.events ?

I added it now.

awesome, I just approved it. If you have more details (e.g. about the location) you can always come back and edit the event on the bottom of its website: https://foss.events/2024/05-22-nostroots-collective.html

[guaka]

collective landing page at https://collective.trustroots.org/

[guaka]

it has been glorious!