BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed

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BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed
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Old, but just in case folks don't know about this...

EDIT: I was stunned at all the upvotes this got, and from a two-year-old article to boot! I hope I didn't do anything to overload their servers. When I posted about the Instagram/Pixelfed import tool, I was kind of surprised at how many folks that were on Lemmy didn't already know about Pixelfed, which is why I posted this, also from We Distribute. For a long while, IIRC, the Fediverse pie chart was taken up almost entirely by Mastodon (which it probably still is) followed by a small but visible sliver of Pixelfed--Lemmy hardly registed at all. Just goes to show how fast we've grown!

EDIT EDIT: I see that some of you were a little bit disappointed with BookWyrm, but I hope you will stick with them because I think they can be an important member of the Fediverse. The sense that I get is that they're stretched very thin, and could use some support, monetarily of course, but especially from other developers.

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looks like bookwyrm.social is dead?

It seems to be back now. I think it runs on a small server and quite often gets hug of deathed

instead of "reddit hug of death" we are slowly approaching to "fedi hug of death". hopefully.

Dead in which way? The server is online, theres just not that much going on. Personally I just want a place to write down which books ive read, so i dont really engage much with others. Seems to be the same for others.

temporary server error. seems fine now