BobQuasit
BookWyrm. I’d searched intensively for a replacement for GoodReads, and been stuck with LibraryThing despite it’s extreme user-hostility (by which I mean the opposite of user-friendliness, not that the people there were hostile). BookWyrm was what I was looking for all along!
Ironically enough I had just added several communities from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works to my feed on Beehaw. Luckily I can still see them on my “Subscribed” list - not the content, the community names - so I’m adding them to my kbin subscriptions instead.
I’m glad to see that kbin has gotten stable. I’d been trying to use it for days, but it kept freezing and crashing!
I’m a Beehaw member; also a kbin member, but I wasn’t able to get on here until tonight because it had been so laggy a few days ago that I’d given kbin up as unusable. To answer your question, I don’t like it but I do understand it. It sounds from what they’ve said that they basically had no choice; they were overwhelmed.
That said, I’m now VERY glad that I have a kbin account. I just re-created my subscription list (including magazines from both of the banned instances) here. I just hope kbin isn’t going to ban them too?
And just in case anyone is wondering: I expect to keep using both Beehaw and kbin (and my other Fediverse accounts, for that matter; I’m on Mastodon, BookWyrm, and Paper.wf). It’s nice to have a low-stress refuge like Beehaw sometimes But I want to be able to access the whole wide world when I choose, too!
I never really cottoned to Mastodon, possibly for the same reasons I never took to Twitter. Perhaps I’m just too much of a chatterbox to accept their post length limitations. 😆
Bookwyrm is outstanding for book reviews, and it allowed me to import the CSV of my reviews from GoodReads. If Mastodon can do that, I wasn’t aware of it.
Paper.wf was recommended to me as a Fediverse boxing site. Mastodon is too short-form for me. Beehaw doesn’t seem to have a personal blog as an option. BookWyrm, oddly enough, does - and I just discovered that I can see my BookWyrm blog (called “Direct Messages” there, which really doesn’t make sense) from kbin. I have no idea how that works, since my accounts are separate.
Paper.wf is elegant, but seemingly skimpy on features, though. Currently I can’t figure out how to find other blogs there or follow them, and as far as I can tell there’s no way for anybody to comment on blog entries there. If anyone wants to check out my blog there, here it is. Maybe you can tell me how to comment on entries!
Because the system gives them no other real choice. When all major parties serve the interests of the oligarchs, the people know that they’re being screwed. Which makes them angry. And since the powers that be absolutely will not allow the emergence of a truly populist movement or leader, the people have no other option but to support a charismatic authoritarian leader who promises them whatever they want. I suspect that most of the people know that those leaders are lying, but at least they acknowledge that the people are being screwed!
Note that while the establishment never allows a leftist populist movement, they’re fine with an authoritarian one. Translation: our owners won’t allow their cattle to run free, but they’re happy to have us all choose a leader to send us to the slaughterhouse for their profit.
I’m off my primary account, and have no desire to go back. I did check on my alt today, but only to catch up on correspondence.
Yeah, I’m another old school early adopter who was on the internet since the '80s. No way the enshittification and souring of Reddit was caused by boomers and Gen xers. Most of them wouldn’t know how to get on, and those who would… Honestly, I’m the only boomer I know who is on there. Well, unless you go to some of the subreddits that are specifically for people over 50. And those people are incredibly nice! One of the few things I will really miss about Reddit.
