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1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay (media.piefed.social)
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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[–] 28 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm a little behind on this, what does goodreads have to do with bezos?

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon 😭

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months 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).

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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)

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