BookWyrm is the Fediverse's answer to Amazon's GoodReads.

BookWyrm helps you keep track of what you're reading, discover new books and publish reviews of books you've read.

You can follow them at @bookwyrm and find out more at:

https://joinbookwyrm.com

There's a list of servers to join at:

https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

There's a built-in book catalogue powered by Wikidata in collaboration with @inventaire

BookWyrm is part of the Fediverse and accounts on BookWyrm servers can be followed by people from Mastodon etc, for example @mouse is the BookWyrm founder's account.

Anyone (except corporations) can start their own BookWyrm server by installing the software, and there's a managed hosting service for people who join the top tier on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/64768354).

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@feditips @bookwyrm @inventaire @mouse wait what do you mean anyone except corporations? I like the idea in principle, but how do they expect to enforce that? If it's in their license, how do they define what counts as a corporation and therefore can't run a bookwyrm server?

@mergerg@tech.lgbt @feditips@mstdn.social @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt @inventaire@mamot.fr @mouse@bookwyrm.social intrigued as to how they will prevent corporations from using their software 🤔 i guess they could test to see if it's a static ip 🤷‍♂️

also why would you discourage corporations from using free software, i say encourage them to use the software and this will put the software in front of more eyes and out of those there is a chance some of them might decide to run a personal instance of the software (which would be a win for us all really). #🤔

@feditips@mstdn.social @inventaire@mamot.fr @mergerg@tech.lgbt @logan@www.loganjohndarylgraham.xyz I'd be grateful to be untagged from this conversation

@mouse sorry! I didn't even notice a bunch of people were tagged, whoops!

@mergerg@tech.lgbt @feditips@mstdn.social @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt @mouse@bookwyrm.social @inventaire@mamot.fr also to put together an email server is rather difficult at least compared to some of the other free software options we have.

I can setup a nextcloud and a fediverse instance in like half a day if nothing goes terrible wrong.
the small email server i did have briefly before it stopped working and i gave up, took me 2 full days to setup. #🤔