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Bookwyrm - A Goodreads alternative that is part of the fediverse (github.com)

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

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Goodreads is perhaps the best example of enshittification imo. It's only good now as a way to track your reading lists.

I tried bookwyrm today and it feels quite polished already, like giving you a guided tour of it's features. Hopefully it takes off as well similar to mastodon and lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

discussion and recommendations.

but now it's mostly shit, like anything that is remotely social media. crazy power users and bad faith actors are all over the place.

I stopped using it a few years ago because people who harass me based on my reviews, esp if it was a critical review of a popular book.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I read that in 2012 a bunch of authors (names included Anne Rice, Kiera Cass and Carroll Bryant) made this website called Stop the Goodreads Bullies, a harassment site disguised as an anti-bullying campaign. Goodreads failure to protect its users/ bowing down to them by changing its policy to say that reviews about author's behaviour was off-topic caused people to migrate to booklikes. Were you part of that migration?