Submitted 4 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Cross posted from: lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/486150
When I tried Bookwirm (a while ago), it didn’t look like there was any kind of metadata sharing between instances. Each book was present on each library, thus destroying the user experience (per-instance ratings and reviews).
This shouldn’t be the case. While books appear to be present on each library (=instance), reviews etc federate between them! They refer to each other.
Here is an example for a famous book on two random instances:
Maybe there’s something I’m missing?
I wanted to contribute a while back and found a bunch of duplicate authors. Unfortunately there wasn’t any way to merge them and the relevant issue has been open for years.
Well, at least it hasn’t been autoclosed I guess 😅
FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This made me chuckle because of some of the truth in it:
Yes and some number of those students leave the university with new ideas and connections. Maybe some of their papers were an exercise to focus their expertise? Not saying universities are the only place that one can find new ideas and connections with the world either.