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How many of you are using Bookwyrm (federated alternative to Goodreads)? (self.literature)

submitted 1 year ago by Knoll0114 to c/[email protected]

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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 [email protected])

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Knoll0114 1 points 1 year ago

I agree I would love more stats (something The Storygraph does really well.) Recommendations aren't too important to me since I seem to always have a ridiculous TBR regardless. I don't see myself deleting Goodreads at this point but I will keep posting on Bookwyrm for the FOSS vibes.