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BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Old, but just in case folks don't know about this...

EDIT: I was stunned at all the upvotes this got, and from a two-year-old article to boot! I hope I didn't do anything to overload their servers. When I posted about the Instagram/Pixelfed import tool, I was kind of surprised at how many folks that were on Lemmy didn't already know about Pixelfed, which is why I posted this, also from We Distribute. For a long while, IIRC, the Fediverse pie chart was taken up almost entirely by Mastodon (which it probably still is) followed by a small but visible sliver of Pixelfed--Lemmy hardly registed at all. Just goes to show how fast we've grown!

EDIT EDIT: I see that some of you were a little bit disappointed with BookWyrm, but I hope you will stick with them because I think they can be an important member of the Fediverse. The sense that I get is that they're stretched very thin, and could use some support, monetarily of course, but especially from other developers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Much akin to reddit, the best thing about goodreads isn't the product itself so much as the communities that use it, and the resulting history of reviews/comments/etc. that build up over time.

The absence of these user generated reactions (for lack of a better catch-all) is a big part of why I never really managed to permanently migrate to Librarything instead. Though, given their devs are quite technical, one could hope they would consider connecting up with the fediverse some day too.

(I realise that many reviews on GR are worthless, but sadly if you're interested in some particularly niche things, it can be not only awkward to find the right version of a book on LT, but often enough there just aren't any reviews at all, or at least not enough to make it useful when a particular text is niche to begin with.

But assuming it federates in a way that's actually useful, this at least might mean a beginning that could lead to alternatives that are not just an improvement on BookWyrm's UI/UX, but Goodreads' too.