Goodreads is perhaps the best example of enshittification imo. It’s only good now as a way to track your reading lists.

I tried bookwyrm today and it feels quite polished already, like giving you a guided tour of it’s features. Hopefully it takes off as well similar to mastodon and lemmy.

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    Is this like an app or a service? My gf uses Gooreads but I can’t picture her self hosting an alternative for it, also she only uses for tracking books, and I don’t think that feature sucks… Yet.

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      She wouldn’t need to host her own instance. Like for Lemmy, kbin or Mastodon there are plenty of Bokwyrm instances with open registrations for everyone.
      And they all federate with each other and the rest of the fediverse. Which is also good, because books have to be added to the instances manually, but thanks to federation there are already many books added that also federeate between instances (sometimes you just have to import the full book data from elsewhere with one click). Only if it’s a very niche book you might have to add it completely, which is fun though imo, because it helps Bookwyrm grow.
      And there is the possibility to import your reading data from Goodreads. :)

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        Ahh, that was what I was guessing, but a quick search didn’t lead me to anywhere 😅

        I’m glad more causal users get to enjoy this then!

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          Here is a small list of instances if you two want to look into it some more. :) I wouldn’t recommend joining bookwyrm.social though, as it’s the biggest one and can be a bit slow sometimes. Also, it’s more in the spirit of the fediverse to spread out over several smaller instances. :D

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            Also, it’s more in the spirit of the fediverse to spread out over several smaller instances. :D

            Yeah, but this is hard to do for most users, as you can see I am using a Lemmy.world account lol, but that doesn’t stop us to have an account somewhere else though.