social.growyourown.services is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Single-user Mastodon instance for the Grow Your Own Services site

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If you're interested in trying the Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm, there is an official list of servers you can sign up on at:

➡️ joinbookwyrm.com/instances

If you've never heard of BookWyrm, it's an alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. You can find out more about it at:

➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne

Book information is provided by @wikidata and @inventaire and you can import your existing book data from LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.

joinbookwyrm.comJoin BookwyrmBookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.

@FediTips

@wikidata @inventaire

Thanks !

Unfortunately, I have heard that Bookwyrm development is on pause.

Any better info on that ?

( I am there on Bookwyrm: @fresseng@bw.heraut.eu )

@fresseng

I haven't heard that? Where did you see it?

Just checked the Github and the lead developer's latest commit was 11 hours ago:

github.com/bookwyrm-social/boo

Before that there were a bunch of commits 4 days ago.

I'm not a developer so I may be misinterpreting this, but it seems active?

GitHubCommits · bookwyrm-social/bookwyrmSocial reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub - Commits · bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

@FediTips

I have it from @balbec. He is the admin of my instance. He has the full story.

I am eager for good news.

I am not a specialist in commits either.

@fresseng @FediTips I'd like to be positive, but having followed things a little, I can confirm that things have been slowing down for several months now. The person in charge of the project doesn't have enough time to devote to it, and there's a lot of work in progress. But that's not a reproach... I'm very grateful to the developers, just an observation.

Fedi.Tips

@balbec @fresseng

I've just checked with the lead dev of BookWyrm and development is definitely continuing.

They had been a bit slower lately due to real life stuff, but the development work has continued.

@FediTips

Now that is real good news !

Many thanks for inquiring !

#Bookwyrm has been so far so interesting for my reading habits.

@balbec