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.
I’m using it but I’m a bit disappointed that I have 500+ books that didn’t import and I have to do it manually. They will need to implement something like the librarians role there because the editions are getting messy already, I would be down to help as I did on GR before being bought by Amazon. Well, I’ll keep loging what I read of course and I hope it grows and gets better.
I went through the export from GoodReads and import to Bookwyrm, and was also disappointed.
I only had 2 books that wouldn’t import, but once I was in, the lack of filtering and data-based lists was very meh. Maybe I’m missing something?
- how do I browse books by category? I can only find user-generated lists.
- how do I sort lists by popularity/rating? I can’t see a single filtering option.
- no recommendations? Granted, GoodReads sucks at this as well, but I would really like there to be an algorithm that was somewhat capable of looking at what I like and suggesting similar things.
I know that recommendations require some data that might not be there, but there should also be data available already that is workable for a rudimentary Recommendations system:
— Sort my Read Books List by My Rating as List W. — Select top 5 books from List W, sort by Book Rating, as List W¹. — Book X is the top book in List W¹, and is classified as being in Category X. — Find Book X in other libraries as List Y. — (if data available, sort List X by some sort of metric, e.g. amount of list Likes). — Select top list in List X as List Y. — Look at other books in List Y, select any that are in Category X. This is List Z. — Sort List Z by Book Rating, return top 5 books as Recommendations.
I know Bookwyrm is open source, but I don’t have the skills to write something like that 😕
(I’ve tried editing the horrible formatting of my suggestions, but they don’t seem to be saving. I’ll try again later)
I just wish there was an easy way to sync my progress from my kindle. Does Kobo (or similarly easy to find reader) offer syncing to BookWyrm by chance? Any suggestions that aren’t too expensive are appreciated.
I highly recommend Storygraph
I like the idea.
But the license for the software and that i don’t even know underwhat license the content is makes me question if this is the answer to a foss goodreads.
OMG, there’s a third party app with dark mode!!! Goodreads app doesn’t have it, which I hate with a passion… I’m sold, just started the import process of my books from goodreads to bookwyrm!
