Books @kbin.social Remillard @kbin.social 2y ago

Rambling Readers (@[email protected])

toot.community Rambling Readers (@[email protected])

Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

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Can we interact with BookWyrm from kbin.social?
- I honestly don't know. I only just found out about BookWyrm from that post on Mastodon. Interestingly, the text of the toot was autoposted into the text box when I put the link into the link box. That text is from Rambling Readers! I don't want to misattribute things.
  
  That said, I think there's a chance. It would probably show up in the "Microblog" portion of the magazine. That is setup to pick up on hashtags in the Fediverse and so if BookWyrm federated made a post that had a particular hashtag, it might show up here.
  
  But in short, I simply am unsure all the intricacies of the fediverse here. I've really only interacted with Mastodon up to this point (and it's gone well)
  
  @Remillard @bookstodon @Rainbright Hashtags on #Bookwyrm don't seem to work properly, unless that has been fixed. In theory though it ought to work as you say. Default hashtags for certain Bookwyrm events might be good too. I've not posted to Bookwyrm since following my account from kbin, so not sure how it works there.
Giving it a try. Import is slow, but I have ~1500 between my read and want to read lists so I can't blame anyone for that.

Edit: importing isn't too bad, but constructing lists is brutal. It was bad enough on goodreads with the list view, but this is untenable. It appears the only way to do it is to manually search for every title you want to add.
Just came across BookWyrm myself. If anyone could link a how to or something. That would be great. Right now, I feel like I am just cataloging books and no real discovery is happening.
- Discovery seems limited to the books the people on that instance are reading. I don't think much discovery will be happening on this site.
Did Amazon always own Good Reads? Or did they acquire it?

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