Is it Goodreads 2.0?
Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books
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#42A social network that doesn't let me use a social login? Sigh
You mean OAuth? It should be a good thing for a social.
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#43"Track your reading and what your friends are reading" sounds like classic social network bullshit dopamine trap. Like brag about acheivements in how many have you read through this month or be sad about how stupid/lazy you are while others are so smart and gritty. They should better offer sharing quotes/highlights/remarks/explanations/summaries/follow-ups and discussing these.
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#44A social network that doesn't let me use a social login? Sigh
A decentralised social network which tries to distance itself from centralised social networks, hence no surprise that they do not offer Google/Facebook/Apple/etc. login.
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#45This exists in some form here already - https://www.reddit.com/r/books/
I like the phrase "in some form" in the context of Reddit.
To me, that form resembles the majestic Titanic, steaming away in the moonlight.
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#46Re: Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books
#47It seems that this federated service falls into the same asymmetry that others have—everyone is joining the flagship instance (which negates the decentralization).
I already run software that federates with this, and I didn't even realize this existed (Pleroma). Seems quite decentralized to me.
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#48"Track your reading and what your friends are reading" sounds like classic social network bullshit dopamine trap. Like brag about acheivements in how many have you read through this month or be sad about how stupid/lazy you are while others are so smart and gritty. They should better offer sharing quotes/highlights/remarks/explanations/summaries/follow-ups and discussing these.
Imagine if you read a book and just enjoyed it! Is there an app for that?
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#49Ok, hard truth time: My step mom is in her 60s, a prolific reader, member of two book clubs and most of her friends are readers. She would never think about joining Bookwyrm because the value prop makes no sense to her. Why does anyone care about federated? (I’m talking normal people here.) Mastodon, Pleroma? What are those? Who cares? Why? (Again, talking as normal people here, the kind of people you’d talk to waiti…
> Goodreads proved it could work. But I don’t understand the market problem this one is solving. Goodreads and Shelfari both got bought by Amazon. They killed Shelfari and froze Goodreads development. As users, federation protects us from this. We even have the choice of running our own instance.
> As users, federation protects us from [the service being killed or development frozen].
Honest question: Does it?
Personally, I worry significantly more about bit rot on projects that make no money. Does federation solve that somehow? What I'm usually looking for is: What is the incentive for people to keep working on this? Is it a passion project made by one or more young people? What happens to it when life happens to them, when they want to start families, etc.? Is it a prestige project from a wealthy person? I think this is less risky, but wealthy people get bored... Or is there reason to think they can get a decent amount of donation money like Wikipedia? This is probably best case scenario, but does it work for niches? I dunno.
Does federation overcome these challenges in a novel way?