Anarchist & Radical Book Club discussion

I don't think I need to begin this post with a long tirade about 카지노싸이트. You probably know that part: Principally, it is owned by Amazon, one of the big five tech giants that are currently replacing capitalism with technofeudalism. The rest follows and you can read about that elsewhere.

Instead, I want to invite you to jump ship and board another boat with me. Bookwyrm is a federated replacement that tracks your reading, want-to-read, have-read etc. You can write reviews of books and search book descriptions. You can follow people and authors, set yearly goals, make reading lists, set reading statuses, comment on people's readings, discuss reviews and so on and so on. All the basic functions you expect of a site like that.

Since Bookwyrm is published and developed under an "anti-capitalist software license", no one can profit from the project.

Most importantly, Bookwyrm is interoperable with other open social medias. That means I can even subscribe to other users activites on other federated platforms that are not Bookwyrm, e.g. Mastodon or Pleroma. If some tech-competent anarchist came along, you could even run your own autonomous Bookwyrm server and host all your surveillance-sensitive comrades, while still federating with all the other users of Bookwyrm.

It gets better. You can export your entire goodreads history, with all your readings and reviews and what not, into BookWyrm. It is even surprisingly easy (I thought 카지노싸이트 would make it much harder, but maybe some law demanded that they give users an opportunity to download their content). So the "switching costs" are very low! This is crucial, because I don't think most people would move, if they would lose all their history. Well, now you won't!

Here's how to import:

So what's the catch? I honestly don't see any. Sure, the interface is not as flashy as most social media today - but come on, Goodsreads already looks zombie-like. I also find that Bookwyrm is very fast. I just enjoy it.

So to make it simple: I want to ask you to consider to take some steps to leave this place and join me on Bookwyrm. I want to follow you all and explore with you this exciting new phase of counter-movement against technofeudalism.

Join here:

Please message me at my handle mlte@bookwyrm.social and I'd love to connect with you.

I created a group with the same title as this one, so there's a safe harbor for you to find each other once you've swam to the other side: (Note: This is not a discussion group, I think. I'm not entirely sure if this function exists yet, one of the few things I haven't found on Bookwyrm).

Please do use this thread to post your handles or discuss how, why or when to move away from this site and into something that actually carries a spirit of autonomy, federation and against the exploitation and manipulation of its users.

I wish it could work. Unfortunately Bookwyrm cannot really handle books which are not in English, definitely not ones in the non-Latin script. All such books on the list I imported from 카지노싸이트 totally confused it. Very annoying.

Pryvit Inna. That's a bummer. I haven't noticed any such issues with books in other languages, but I also don't read in non-Latin alphabet languages.

카지노싸이트 seems more flexible. It lets people add books manually. While I tried transferring my goodreads list, the system insisted on making ridiculous replacements to the non-Latin alphabet books or deleting them. If it just let me approve of them as is, I would be happy.

Thank you. I have been looking for an alternative for many years now.

Will it allow me to log that I've read zines though because that's something I dislike about goodreads

Freyja wrote: "Will it allow me to log that I've read zines though because that's something I dislike about goodreads"

I'm not sure how this would be different than just adding a book. Did you try adding the zine and then log it? I invite you to come and try it out with me.

Here's the guide to add new literature:

Inna wrote: "카지노싸이트 seems more flexible. It lets people add books manually."

You can add books to Bookwyrm manually too.

ive been on the fediverse for awhile now and really enjoying it. synced my book lists today on bookwyrm. i had to add the titles manually for basically all the zines which is unfortunate but some labor i am willing to do for the future people who will want to see them represented. my only thing is the categories of interactions are broken down into: books, users, and lists. lists are a collaborative thing but are definitely not a discussion board or interactive place where people can connect or exchange ideas exactly. so im saying i found the list you made from the same title as this one but am unsure of how to interact with it or if that is even possible. it looks like i can add books to it but not much else. Friended you anyways on there and hope to see more of us make the switch. thanks for sharing that this even exists and i hope i can see it become more interactive and have some of the functions that goodreads has had BILLIONS of dollars to develop one day.