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Now Bookwyrm is the future of book reviews. Because it's FOSS and federalised with ActivityPub protocol.

Came here to say the same.

Bookwyrm is a good example of how the fediverse architecture is more profound than social media (and definitely more profound than mastodon that is in the end of the day a twitter imitator).

People may tire of social media inanity, whether it is centralized or decentralized. But there will always be communities that want to exchange information, thoughts, feelings, whether that is about movies, books or any other creative artifact.

Its important that those conversations don't take place inside a giant automated vending machine.

One caveat for new users is that it requires some effort to use it. In many cases, if you're reading non mainstream books then it's on you to add those books and ISBN details + cover page etc. You're essentially contributing to the site content, but hopefully it's worth it.

My profile is here, as an example: https://bookwyrm.social/user/sidmitra

> Because it's FOSS

It's not FOSS, my other comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578294

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