I remember a while ago I saw a TikTok but for fediverse and also an instagram. What other cool programs are there for the fediverse?
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Bookwyrm! It’s for discussing, reviewing and tracking books. It’s still beta but I’ve been enjoying it for years now.
Yep super promising and necessary for anyone rightly not wanting to use amazon current problem is duplicates and lack of content.
Lack of content is always relative of course, I’d say there’s some genres that are well represented where you can find reviews for most books. My timeline is everything but empty as well.
Duplication is a thing. It isn’t super annoying for most users though. Find any copy of your book and start reading.
Use the same logic we do for the rest of the fediverse. You’re not making “the world’s bookstore” you’re making a collection of books that can’t be found elsewhere. I think it can be useful for people with particular literary or historical tastes
Bookwyrm has a list feature and there’s already plenty list for like queer sci-fi, solarpunk and other “niche” genres. Not sure how fediverse-exclusive these are though.
Sure but think of those as subsections within a small bookstore. You could make them curated lists of fiction subgenres, or explorations of specific historical periods or authors. I think the detail & specificity gives it an edge over just browsing Goodreads with https://libredirect.io/ or Internet Archive or Anna’s etcetera
That’s what happens already when people create lists for their own interests. Plenty nerds on bookwyrm curating books for their interests.
Well maybe once there is a truly giant instance set up, but I think it would be better to curate considering the state of publishing lmao? 95% of new books = slop
Why this over hardcover?
Never heard of it, what’s that?
neodb has other stuff besides books (games , movies ,podcasts, music ) , also bookwyrm license isn’t OSI approved which i don’t like (not looking to start a holy war on this, form your own opinion).
Do you know if book info works between neodb and bookwyrm?
Not really, i did play around with it and added a few reviews and saw nothing like it.
For federated apps, I really like Lemmy itself for text discussions, and PeerTube for video. The cool thing about the fediverse is you actually own your content and can move instances without losing your audience. It’s like the opposite of the social media trap where you build an audience but don’t own any of it. I’m working on something similar called The Zeitgeist Experiment - mapping public opinion via email to cut through the algorithmic noise. Not federated, but same spirit of reclaiming thoughtful discourse from engagement-optimized platforms.
I’m always searching to expand my feed, so it usually goes from “hidden gem” to completely normal!
That said, I find that the “scaled” search option is excellent upon making such discoveries…
I’d say the “scaled” post listing option is a hidden gem.
You bet your bippy it is!
And dang-bone-it, I miss good ol’ Val Kilmer. (he used to post, sometimes)
