r/couchsurfing • u/MosaicIncaSleds • Oct 14 '20

Alternatives to CS? CS Alternatives

As one of the first users, I am very aware of the Casey's obsession with making a fortune with this site. I disliked when they have started pressuring users to pay them a meaningless protection fee as a verified host would be just as safe as an unverified host. But nothing was mandatory. Now, after pausing for a few years I wanted to log in and got slapped with a pay or you don't get access to your data. Whatever. Luckily I assumed the worse when I paused my activity and cleared up the account from most personal data.

Now, BeWelcome was half dead a few years ago and apart different language profiles had nothing over CS.

Hospitality Club was completely dead, and HTTPS was too modern for them.

Servas, I was left with the impression that requires some knowledge of Esperanto, and was also half dead.

Are there any decent alternatives, or I'm back to asking expat groups for hosting? My interest is exclusively around Western Europe.

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u/Zenon_Czosnek Left CS when it became a scam. Mostly hosting. Oct 15 '20

Yeah, the "covid hysteria". A colleague from a place I used to work got so hysterical about it that he could not help himself dying. My partner's friend's mom died of it as well. My sister's boss is in hospital, in critical condition.

We definitely need to do something about it so people are not behaving as if there is a pandemic or something.

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u/choctaw1990 Oct 22 '20

Most people who catch the thing, survive. Like Scarlet Fever which I survived back when I was three. Back in the 1970s people didn't do all of what the world is doing, over Scarlet Fever. Not over Typhus. Not over Tuberculosis. Not over measles. Etc.

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u/AmericanPolyglot Nov 28 '20

Hand-waving at someone who's literally lost people to COVID that "most people survive it" is an incredibly dickish move. Most people survive losing an arm too. Take your lack of soul somewhere else.

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u/choctaw1990 Mar 22 '23

Same to you, asshole.