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BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed

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.

thebardingreen ,
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UI/UX is bad and frustrating, but I'm SO happy this exists.

KnittingTrekker ,
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Is Goodreads bad? I use it a lot, but would it be better/more ethical to change like with reddit?

hedge OP ,
@hedge@beehaw.org avatar

Owned by Amazon!

FaceDeer ,
@FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar

Oh, neat. I did a lot of librarian work on Goodreads over the years but I eventually wore out when I realized I was working for Amazon for free. I'll take a look at this and see if any of the old librarian itch still needs scratching.

JaymesRS ,
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It uses OpenLibrary and Inventaire as it’s sourced apparently. I don’t know if it contributes upstream though.

I just wish it had a Calibre plugin, I tend to forget to update services like these and rely on syncing with calibre to do it for me.

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