There are already many hospex comminities, each one for a
different target, so why a new one ?
The idea came on late 2019,
when started a drift among existing communities either toward a way
to recovery costs, or to a way to fit some so called “safety first”
people.
But first ones were unfair to people that had
previpoulsy volunteered, or are very active offering their houses and
their time to allow others to make new experiences, the other ones
then to restrict the opennes of participant, that are always under
the threat of exclusion, or the menace of being accused for whatever
event without having possibility to counteract, not forgetting that
under certain jurisdictions “personal” messages sent though
platform that are “monitored” fall under the social media laws,
and are not considered private ones, as would be email messages, even
sent to a group and not stored on a public server. This has led to
some people that got prosecuted and fined for activities they did in
an hospex site, using as proofs messages left there.
For these
reasons a lot of people, usually the more involved, feel exploited,
and have abandoned or greatly reduced their activity, limiting to
meeting friends of friends, that is perfectly OK but introduce a
barrier to new people.
So the idea was to create a community that works on personal aquientances, and is based on personal or group messaging, without a centralized database, where each member can present itself in the way that prefers, and where one would not look at a list of official references, but will be the person that will give a list of friends that can tell about. So anyone can set a chain of trust to know whether to follow advices or not and how much weight each one.
The only function for the site would be to offer members a page where to list their contact and a very short presentation, possibly on a map way, linking to a public personal page or possibly to a mail reply on demand, listing personal links.
Community activity would occour via email lists or other online or live activities, individually organized.
And finally an explaination about the name: a first idea was to avoid to use for the name the language always used for these activities, so choice was to the second most spoken language that can be written using the most widely used alphabeth, then finding something easy to remember and that can have a lot of meanings (pueblo means both people but also village – el pueblo unido - the global village ).
Thanks for attention.
Leonardo.