PRprotomolecool·Jul 24, 2026Submission
BookWyrm is a social network for tracking and sharing your reading
3 points · Open discussionbookwyrm-social
bookwyrm
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bookwyrm-social / bookwyrm
bookwyrm
Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
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Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
13 sourceshere you go lol https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
It's part of fediverse. Open source, decentralized software
In There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternativeOne feature that would be great is being able to sync/upload the metadata to something like a Bookwyrm[1] instance (there's apparently a `/create-book` endpoint for this) - trying to find and retype all the information from, e.g., Amazon is a pain.
[1] https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
In Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management appIt’s got a very ideologically-driven focus, including an anti-capital source license:
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...
I think the focus on federation is to encourage small, decentralized and communally operated sites that play well with the broader fediverse. I can see that working well for a lot of book communities!
Also, spent a bit of time a few weeks ago and it already seemed to have the nicest UX of the open social book services, at least that I could see (would love recs - mostly interested in a personal tracker).
In Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading booksDoh!
I went and looked at the license.
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...
Comment from the author.
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/2152
In Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought itAnti-Capitalist Software License
12 points · Open discussionI would rather run a Bookwyrm [0] instance.
[0]: https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm
In Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instanceBeware that Bookwyrm is distributed under the "Anticapitalist software license" [1] so you must be very veyr very careful before using it. It may be actually impossible to legally deploy it for a lot of people.
[1] https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...
In Mastodon – A Federated Twitter AlternativeBookwyrm: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
1 points · Open discussionHi Funes,
Great points here
1. The banner happens last month of the year (Wikipedia being the perfect analog). Yes, there are mixed feelings and it's not the world's best experience :P
2. Our entire data set is available to download as in bulk https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps because we'd love to see a decentralized p2p version
3. https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm Mouse who used to work @ Internet Archive has a decentralized version of Open Library (Bookwyrm) and it's worth checking out.
4. For the last 5 or so years the Internet Archive has been cultivating a dweb/dapp community and integrating with IIIF, Dat, IPFS, gun, bittorent, webtorrents, and others and hosting regular summits and meetups
https://blog.archive.org/2018/07/21/decentralized-web-faq/
5. The wayback machine is an interesting case study: it turns out, incen
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tive structures (even things like FIL/filecoin) haven't been able to perfectly crack the nut on getting folks interested enough to preserve the whole wayback machine. There's petabytes of material and there's a powerlaw about what people care about today. Internet Archive realized what we care about today may not be the same as tomorrow, and so there's a cost eaten (the incentive comes from economies of scale generated by intrinsic desire rather than $). And in a way, this centralized solution (economies of scale) IS the solution a community came up with. It has flaws and advantages (tradeoffs), such as centralized points of failure, and I think the archive would be (and has been) ecstatic to explore improving these opportunities.
Here's an attempt at making a Goodreads-like that runs on ActivityPub: https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm
In Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an endFediReads: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
3 points · Open discussionJust signed up for FediReads[1] last week. It's a decentralized Goodreads with ActivityPub, and open source[2].
[1] http://fedireads-test.glitch.me/
[2] https://github.com/mouse-reeve/fedireads/
In Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline