I tried bookwyrm today and it feels quite polished already, like giving you a guided tour of it's features. Hopefully it takes off as well similar to mastodon and lemmy.

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[–] 4cheese@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've only ever used Goodreads to track books I've read. What was good about it in the past?

[–] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

discussion and recommendations.

but now it's mostly shit, like anything that is remotely social media. crazy power users and bad faith actors are all over the place.

I stopped using it a few years ago because people who harass me based on my reviews, esp if it was a critical review of a popular book.

[–] AfterthoughtC@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I read that in 2012 a bunch of authors (names included Anne Rice, Kiera Cass and Carroll Bryant) made this website called Stop the Goodreads Bullies, a harassment site disguised as an anti-bullying campaign. Goodreads failure to protect its users/ bowing down to them by changing its policy to say that reviews about author's behaviour was off-topic caused people to migrate to booklikes. Were you part of that migration?

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