BookWyrm - an ActivityPub alternative to GoodReads

[jdaviescoates]

Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub

Looks like it's still early days, but one to watch:

https://joinbookwyrm.com/
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/installing-in-production.html
https://patreon.com/bookwyrm

[RoundHouse1924]

@jdaviescoates
Plenty of release activity since OP:-
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/tags

Silly licence --- watch out, in the case of "commercial" activity:-
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENSE.md

BookWyrm Android app at IzzyOnDroid:-
https://android.izzysoft.de/applists/category/named/reading_ebookreaders
https://github.com/PrivacyDragon/Bookwyrm_Android

Twitter account interestingly active:-
https://twitter.com/BookWyrmSocial

All in all, well worth looking into!

[LoudLemur]

@RoundHouse1924

The "anti-capitalist licence 1.4" is indeed funny:

The User is one of the following:

An individual person, laboring for themselves
A non-profit organization
An educational institution
An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor

What happens if you are unemployed? Who is going around ensuring compliance and enforcing this licence? I wonder what the earlier versions were like...

Anyway, it is nice to have an alternative to Amazon controlled Goodreads...

[ei8fdb]

@jdaviescoates This looks very interesting. I've been looking for something to manage a UX book club community idea on.

This might be something I could use.

Do you have experience on it?

[jdaviescoates]

@ei8fdb nope. I'd just love to have all these Fediverse tools on Cloudron

[jdaviescoates]

Some updated links:

https://joinbookwyrm.com/
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/installing-in-production.html

( @staff I'd add these to the OP if I were able )

[RoundHouse1924]

@jdaviescoates said in BookWyrm - an ActivityPub alternative to GoodReads:

I'd add these to the OP if I were able

Does that mean users are not allowed to edit the top post, for some reason?

[jdaviescoates]

@RoundHouse1924 yes, after a certain amount of time posts get locked (spam prevention, I think)

[girish]

@jdaviescoates thanks! updated.

Does that mean users are not allowed to edit the top post, for some reason?

@RoundHouse1924 yes, often once they get a 1 or 2 point reputation, they go back and edit the posts to have spam links.

[stormgrass]

I second this. Would be great to use this as a Goodreads alternative.

[jaschaezra]

I am running an instance outside of cloudron and it is really a nice thing

Would love to run it with cloudron