Submitted 1 year ago by witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
“BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.”
I don’t get it why I should have to create an account there. Doesn’t social and ActivityPub mean I can participate from somewhere else!?
It seems like it would be super helpful if the fediverse offered oauth between instances doesn’t it?
Yes and no.
The main benefit of activitypub is facilitating communication between many instances running the same software. Sometimes services are different but do the same thing so work well together (e.g. mastodon and firefish).
When there is overlap between services it can work, such as how you can read lemmy communities from mastodon, but it’s not the same, they are different content types (microblog vs link sharing and discussion).
Bookwyrm is quite different. Tracking the books you’re reading is not really a fediverse thing and I’m not sure that’s even federated between boojwyrm instances. Reviews on books, well on bookwyrm you can follow users. I guess it’s possible you can follow a bookwyrm user from mastodon? Have you tried? It wouldn’t give you the same experience though, so sometimes it’s nicer to make a new account.
It’s the protocol vs the app. The protocol is universal and does not make any distinction between the services. It’s rather the app interface that only lets you sign in with an account form one of their platforms. We really need a SSO solution like ActivityPods or something.
Kinda like the idea. Might give it a go.
Was this not the purpose of Literature.cafe? Did they not close down due to lack of users and merge into .world? Not sure how you’re going to break that streak, given that Lemmy’s numbers are going down and not up.
Literature.cafe is very much still here and we didn’t merge into .world nor close down, this software is for book tracking and book reviews :P
Oh. Sorry. Read on! (since I clearly cannot)
This software is specialized for this purpose.
I've used it for a few months. I enjoy the ability of updating my progress after each reading session.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, if an algorithm can recommend me books I might enjoy based on things I’ve previously read, that’s not a bad thing?
Algorithms aren’t always bad.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 year ago
Plus people apparently don’t know what „algorithm“ means. Sorting by average rating is an algorithm. Filtering by genre is an algorithm. Anything that takes an input (a database of books), performs a discrete set of steps and produces an output (an ordered list of books) is an algorithm. Even if it’s not performed by a computer but yourself standing in front of your bookshelf.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 year ago
This is true, but colloquially when people say “I dislike algorithms,” we are referring to any system that automatically sorts or elicits information, apart from responding to user input. I like having the ability to sort and filter things manually, but I dislike unsolicited recommendations and things of that nature. I think most people know the technical meaning of the word.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
+1, I get a lot of very good recommendations from chatgpt.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 year ago
To each their own, but I’ve been using bookwyrm for a few months now, and I like that it doesn’t use an algorithm because I have yet to receive a suitable recommendation from one. It’s a much cleaner, refreshing experience.
Corgana@startrek.website 1 year ago
It sounds good on paper, but after a decade of having Netflix and Spotify recommending stuff to me that I “like” but leaves me spiritually pigeonholed, I’ve really come around to appreciating the value of “organically” encountering media that is more varied and challenging.
To give an example: when a friend recomends a book to me, even if it’s not my “taste” the experience becomes much more rewarding (and I have a friend to talk about it with!). Being recommended media by a software program is impersonal and honestly it gets kinda lonely.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think people are tired of their data training AI models while using for a service.
LilDumpy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What about an algorithm so that you get relevant book recommendations from people? Would that count?