Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/t/2018584
Both fediverse softwares that support user reviews for books, both have RSS support natively (no Piefed/Misskey bridge needed), and some comments also seem discontent with Amazon’s mismanagement overall.
Is there something wrong with StoryGraph? I thought they were generally considered the next best thing but I feel like on Lemmy they get less mentions than BookWyrm (for example).
Not familiar with that one. Let me check.
I think its a non Foss, non-fedi platform, but I’ve found it nice in that it’s more populated than the tiny alternatives with few reviews and doesn’t need an amazon account or whatever
I don’t know a ton about it though, and may not have a complete or accurate picture of things
That’s about right. It’s proprietary, centralized, and has a team of three people, and there’s perfectly functional free accounts (which I use). They have paid accounts for people who like pretty data graphs of specific reading-related things and/or who want to give them financial support.
StoryGraph doesn’t look very open source or federated (unless I’m missing the relevant links). As soon as the creators decide to sell out then you’re stuck looking for another alternative. BookWyrm is federated and self-hostable so it will live for as long as it has users wanting to host it.
The only thing I don’t like about bookwyrm, is that it’s so slow. Like hella slow. And the import functionality is jank
Taking a play out of Reddit’s recent book: hoard all the valuable insights, commentary, and data that your users provided you free of charge, to sell to the highest bidder for AI training, while blocking the most free and open way of following the topics/interests that those users love.
Forget the Terminator style deathbots, the biggest harm of AI has been all these sites walling up and locking people in/out.
