“BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.”
Recommendations from people, not algorithms
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.
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.
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.
+1, I get a lot of very good recommendations from chatgpt.
Book recommendations from people are fine, but I find that about half of them are just echoes of whatever’s popular in that particular forum.
r/printsf gives very good recommendations most of the time but you’d better be ready to read Blindsight.
What about an algorithm so that you get relevant book recommendations from people? Would that count?
I think people are tired of their data training AI models while using for a service.
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?
Kinda like the idea. Might give it a go.
I’ve used it for a few months. I enjoy the idea of updating my progress after each reading session, so that hypothetically, I can see how fast I read.
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.
This software is specialized for book reviews
