Bookwyrm - A Goodreads alternative that is part of the fediverse

It has this already - see editions under the book. Some books have been added incorrectly as new books though.

Storygraph has this too, but they helpfully provide an "editions" button on each book and you can then select the exact one that you're reading.

Could be a solution for this app too.

That's true, duplicate copies of the same book is perhaps the main pain on bookwyrm right now. On the other hand it also feels like a problem that devs must be aware of and are actively trying to figure out a solution for.

awaiting discogs for books

Yeah, and so much isn't recognized when importing your Goodreads books. Didn't like it for that reason.

Yup, I’m a StoryGraph user as well, does everything I’d need a book app to do

Once upon a time it held a lot promise for book recommendations. You wouldn't simply look for books that had high star ratings, you'd be shown books that other people who had the same profile of likes/dislikes had enjoyed. They had all the data necessary to build an awesome recommendation engine.

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.

I'm curious about this too. I thought that's what Goodreads was for, tracking your books.

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I don't really know what the dev's roadmap is, but I do think that reccomendations shouldn't even be a part of the instance beyond recommendations from your "community" or people who you follow. I think it should be a seperate service/website that imports your goodreads/bookwyrm data and algorithms it while serving ads(meaning their revenue will come from publishers/authors). It can then push recommendations over to your bookwyrm home instance with activitypub. Otherwise each instance will need the data from every other instance just to give you recommendations based on what other people like you enjoyed. It also allows the service to be easily replaced once it starts to go to shit, since there's not a single "this is the recommendation engine".

wouldn't it make more sense to make a more generic federated list site that could be used for any category of things you wanted?

She wouldn't need to host her own instance. Like for Lemmy, kbin or Mastodon there are plenty of Bokwyrm instances with open registrations for everyone.
And they all federate with each other and the rest of the fediverse. Which is also good, because books have to be added to the instances manually, but thanks to federation there are already many books added that also federeate between instances (sometimes you just have to import the full book data from elsewhere with one click). Only if it's a very niche book you might have to add it completely, which is fun though imo, because it helps Bookwyrm grow.
And there is the possibility to import your reading data from Goodreads. :)

Is this a humble brag for how many books you've read?

Wow that’s a great idea

The point of the fediverse in a broad sense is decentralisation. By having bookwyrm as an alternative everything isn't linked to goodreads. If they ever decide to make it paid only or the company goes down, all that stuff is gone. On the fediverse the posts would be split and hosted across multiple independent communities. This make it more robust Imo