I'm a little behind on this, what does goodreads have to do with bezos?
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 5 days ago
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon 😭
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It’s pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).
kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There’s also StoryGraph - it’s not federated, but ran by a tiny UK company, but seems pretty popular. I like the content warnings feature and stuff like readers rating the pacing and moods of the books, which is then displayed with graphs on the book page, but they have also introduced some AI features :/ (fortunately opt-in)
Kalon@feddit.online 5 days ago
Nice suggestion. I didn’t know this was a thing. :)
Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Bookwyrm is cool, it just needs more attention and interaction. It would be cool if it could expand into other forms of media (games, movies) like NeoDB, which again feels like posting into the void.