“BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.”
“BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.”
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.
I think people are tired of their data training AI models while using for a service.
What about an algorithm so that you get relevant book recommendations from people? Would that count?