cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42666
I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It’s not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it’s federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won’t get lost in the sea so much and I’ve found that it’s been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.
Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What’s your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is Unfreeze4257@books.theunseen)
Just discovered it a few hours ago (thanks guys) and find it promising… What I would miss from Goodreads/StoryGraph are the following I think:
- Reading stats (but there are some issues / pull request on bookwyrm GitHub so we may expect something sooner or later)
- Recommendations / discovery of books - author I didn’t knew about but we can see with this community or so
- Reviews (Of course it’s a feature existing in bookwyrm but since the user base is much fewer than closed source alternatives, there are fewer reviews too)
Now I always been more or less implied and interested in FOSS and even if I’m a late adopter of fediverse world that seems very promising to me and I think I’ll prefer something free despite the few limitations I oversee.
I just found Bookwyrm! It looks cool - how do we comment or otherwise access Bookwyrm content on Kbin?
This is what I’m wondering! Would be cool to at least see comments or updates based on books or authors I care about on kbin, maybe?
Sure! I’ve been using it for about 7 months. Just experimenting with GoodReads alternatives to tracking what I read. Mine is teadragon@books.theunseen.city
i am on a niche server (as i am on most fedi platforms) because it was the sheer volume of review-dunking that chased me off goodreads, long before bozo bought it. so when i went back to book social, i started out hiding in a corner and never left.
https://book.dansmonorage.blue/user/emmadilemma
federation on bookwyrm seems more hit-and-miss than on other platforms, so the instance you’re on makes a difference. most people i know are on books.theunseencity and bookrastinating; i keep a secondary on the latter to see some updates that don’t flow well to dansmonorage
Well, I’m using it now!
