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BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Re: BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Post by hirako2000 »

"A portion of the proceeds go towards the Yunakin land tax."

An _Anti Corporate_ organisation adopting a very corporate measure in my view.

If taxes could lead to justice, then native Americans would be far less prone to poverty, alcoholism and depression.

About the product itself, it's hard to see how this is an alternative to goodreads. The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. A great model for decentralised moderation etc. The parallel could be made with reddit, not so much with goodreads where over half of the books in existence are listed, very often rated/reviewed.

Re: BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Post by rektide »

hirako2000 wrote: post #3

"A portion of the proceeds go towards the Yunakin land tax." An _Anti Corporate_ organisation adopting a very corporate measure in my view. If taxes could lead to justice, then native Americans would be far less prone to poverty, alcoholism and depression. About the product itself, it's hard to see how this is an alternative to goodreads. The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. A great model for d…

> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities.

You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website.

An unfortunately limited & skeptical view. Hopefully you just need to be better informed. If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever, they want, and we can interoperate!

Re: BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Post by bottled_poe »

Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.

Re: BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Post by uncomputation »

bottled_poe wrote: post #6

Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.

I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they post here because it’s _their_ community but in reality it’s actually not a good fit for a lot of products. Maybe some dev/SAAS things, but something like Goodreads? That should be marketed to readers, not developers. The only reason it gets posted here is because the development side is interested (supposedly) in the decentralized technical nature of the product, but that actually matters very little to most people.

Re: BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Post by irrational »

bottled_poe wrote: post #6

Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.

This is a problem with any similar thing that already has a heavily established site. One is my hobbies is boardgames. The longest running site is Board Game Geek (BGG). It’s age shows (this was the front page of the site until very recently https://www.boardgamegeek.com/dashboard), but more modern competitors have had issues trying to get a foot hold. The most recent one is Board Game Atlas. They have tried all kinds of things to lure users, such as contests, but I’m sure the percentage of people using it is a fraction to BGG.

Re: BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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Post by onionisafruit »

uncomputation wrote: post #7
bottled_poe wrote: post #6

Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.

I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they post here because it’s _their_ community but in reality it’s actually not a good fit for a lot of products. Maybe some dev/SAAS things, but something like Goodreads? That should be marketed to readers, not developers. The only reason it gets posted here is becau…

I don’t see this as marketing to get new users. It’s more showing peers something interesting you found or are working on. Of course they’ll be happy to get some users from hn, but I suspect that isn’t really the goal here.
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