 For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post! Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm 46 comments
@darius@friend.camp @darius@bookwyrm.social what have you gotten out of posting on diff accts? @heathr well, bookwyrm is entirely different software that lets me rate and review and catalog my books. and then it has the added benefit that when I'm doing that stuff there, people on mastodon (or wherever) who choose so can comment and we can talk. it's about the affordances that the other software gives me for creating stuff (in this case a record of my books). if I was just chatting about books I would simply do it here oh hey looks like there's only ONE SPOT LEFT NOW to be a super cool supporter with your own awesome server 😎 @darius @tripofmice I’m excited to look into this. I love Goodreads, but you know… Amazon. @tripofmice @darius I’m loving #fediverse. I wish I found all of these sites earlier!
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 And if you found really awesome books there, keep in mind - there is another fedibook thing where you can then also check if somebody near you lends this book :) @JenRohrigDesign if you want to write reviews you will need an account on a BookWyrm server (mastodon has nothing to do with it, but the two speak the same language on the backend so they can talk to one another)  @darius @tripofmice Please advise. Should I just follow people who are Bookwym from my existing Mastodon account? Or make a Bookwyrn account and use that? @mike @tripofmice basically, whatever you prefer! if you want to WRITE reviews using bookwyrm you'll need an account but if you just want to follow people's reviews, you can use Mastodon. that's one of the main advantages of federated services and it rules @darius @tripofmice Aha, and I guess the same applies with other Fediverse apps: you only need an account on them if you want to *create*. Right? @darius @tripofmice Thanks a lot for the link! I was searching for an alternative to goodreads a few weeks ago, but ultimately settled on making a page on my website for this since I couldn't find any alternative (and didn't get bookwyrm offered as alternative anywhere) @darius I set up an account earlier this morning but it says I've only requested to follow myself from Mastodon- and I definitely don't have follow requests enabled in Bookwyrm. Is that expected? @tacoman_x86 if the server is extremely swamped, which is highly likely today of all days (it's the busiest day I've ever seen on fediverse stats-wise), it might just take a while for the back-and-forth handshake that's required to happen This is exactly why I joined mastodon, it may be a bit more complex but because it is open there are more possibilities. Reminds me of the web. @darius Awesome information here! I've been trying to figure out how these platforms all speak to each other, and the answers here explained it really well! 😄 Now if only there was a cool way to link accounts on different platforms together... @evangyselli @tripofmice couldn't register on which server? you have your choice of many here https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/  @darius @tripofmice I wonder if it is a good place for an author to market a book? Thoughts welcome!  @darius @tripofmice I looked but didn't see - is there a way to import from Goodreads (or another book reading/library tracking tool into Bookwyrm? I have a decade of longer of tracking my library in Goodreads which is hard to give up as it is very useful (I'm also more into Goodreads for my own tracking than for seeing other's reviews though I do like seeing them when from friends) @darius @tripofmice thanks. I’ll take a look. I suspect my db might be challenging but I’ll see how it works (I have a fair number of obscure books amongst my shelves). I’m also curious if the import retains ratings/reviews/read times (including multiple reads) of the books when imported. But that will in part be a factor of what data Goodreads exports as well as the import process. @darius @tripofmice Yes, Bookwyrm is nice, but there ist one big problem: its licence isn't open source at all. @GoldieYock It's disabled on bookwyrm.social, but not necessarily on other servers. That server had enough new signups with people importing their GR data (which is very resource intensive to do), but servers that aren't experiencing as much of a rush probably are still running that service. @darius I guess I'll check back later to see if they can handle more. I understand it's a load but to be social means to keep people together, not on separate servers where sharing becomes difficult. @GoldieYock being on other servers doesn't prevent you from following those elsewhere. That's one of the big advantages of software like this. It's pretty much the same with the same access to the same people no matter what server you're on @darius I think my confusion stems from not understanding how the servers "know" who I want to interact with and when. I can join one, but won't know if a friend joins another unless I'm constantly looking for them -? @GoldieYock yeah that is correct, your friend would need to tell you that you signed up, and there's no way to just search every account ever. it's very much like email -- in order to email someone you need them to tell you their address. same deal here. It is certainly less convenient than searching every known account for a person you know (which isn't really how this works, it would be like having a directory of all email addresses ever) @GoldieYock it's a slower kind of growth here, more intentional. I like it but it's not for everyone |
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also you can follow my book reviews at @darius@bookwyrm.social , though I haven't posted there in a while