comment violates rule: Stay on-topic to the Goodreads app/website - Book recommendations, discussion about Goodreads alternatives or proposed improvements to Goodreads, surveys/school projects, and general discussion of reading as a hobby are all considered off-topic.

I don't think the mods there are going to let you.

Yes! Also the December release of Catodon will support both Bookwyrm and NeoDB reviews. I know that people are looking for a suggestion for now, but we need a month (although it will come sooner in develop, in November).

Maybe try Storygraph

Probably a good idea indeed!

@Auster@thebrainbin.org Bookwyrm and NeoDB are both awesome alternatives to GoodReads, with NeoDB offering far more than just books.

The only downside is that Kindle directly integrates with GoodReads, I'm not sure there's been any independent efforts to integrate alternatives into e-readers.

I'll check these out too, thanks.

Openlibrary.org?

Theres an effort to get CrossPoint and BookWyrm to work together. The more interop will make people want to use both.

BookWyrm has an issue where its REST API isnt all that well documented. Theres some work being done (and it is just Django) but theres some huge holes in the current software.

I use bookwyrm all the time, its great.

Are all the people here recommending Bookwyrm and NeoDB actually using them?

I just spent a solid chunk of time importing and correcting various accounts to NeoDB and Bookwyrm and they are both petty frustrating to use, especially with how much content is missing, mislabeled, or duplicated. Plus, they don't seem to federate with each other (understandable, in so far as very few parts of the Fediverse actually federate well together [unlike, perhaps, Mastodon and mbin]) or even support exporting/importing data from each other.

NeoDB FTW

Taking a play out of Reddit's recent book: hoard all the valuable insights, commentary, and data that your users provided you free of charge, to sell to the highest bidder for AI training, while blocking the most free and open way of following the topics/interests that those users love.

Forget the Terminator style deathbots, the biggest harm of AI has been all these sites walling up and locking people in/out.