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How many of you are using Bookwyrm (federated alternative to Goodreads)? (self.books)
submitted 1 year ago by Knoll0114 to c/[email protected]
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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] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Er...by the way, is it possible to connect a Bookwyrm account to a Lemmy, kbin, or Mastodon account? Is Bookwyrm compatible with the rest of the Fediverse? Or is it a different Fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's ActivityPub-compatible, which means it's compatible with the rest of the Mastodon, Pleroma, Lemmy et cetera-fediverse. You can paste a Bookwyrm profile URL into Mastodon and it will appear like a Mastodon account where the book reviews and status updates are the posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm also new to this whole Fediverse thing. What I managed to do is:

  1. Create an account on a Mastodon server
  2. Create an account on BookWyrm
  3. Find the BookWyrm account through the Fedilab app, being logged in with the Mastodon account, and follow (searching for [email protected])
  4. See posts I made on BookWyrm after I followed in the Fedilab app

I have not found a way to search for users Jerboa which I use for Lemmy. And searching through the website, I don't find my BookWyrm account. I guess it is still early days for some of this stuff in terms of how easy it is to understand and use.

[–] GiantPacificOctopus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been told it is possible! But I don’t know how…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@GiantPacificOctopus @BobQuasit

There's only one Fediverse, though it can be fragmented (through admin instances decision, not through softwares).
Interactions with Bookwyrm are possible from Mastodon, but the big problem imho is that boosting a BW post from Mastodon creates a mastodon message with the link to the BW comment, it doesn't include the BW comment itself.
Never tried from Lemmy, though.