Tokophobia.

It’s been years since I reread this and I still call her “Pants”.

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Agreed! I’ve come across a couple of writing communities here, but they’re still just starting out. Hopefully we’ll be able to grow these communities. 🤞

Non-tech background. I’m a book editor and when the Snoopocalypse happened, most of the niche communities I was a part of were shut down in protest, so I decided to give Lemmy a try. Loving it so far, as it seems way less toxic.

I never turn down a dare.

*madlady, but thanks, I guess?

I’m liking Bookwyrm, it’s simple and straightforward. Granted, I’d love to give Storygraph another go, but it really seemed to hate me and my phone 😅 I really liked their recommendations.

I think it’s still in need of some development, but it does the job well. And I love the lack of useless bells and whistles.

You’re right not to trust anyone. I stopped trusting GR when it started exclusively “recommending” books that were popular on Tiktok. It was a swift and merciless breakup.

That doesn’t even remotely surprise me coming from Amazon, inflating itself with garbage.

I totally agree on giving Bookwyrm a chance. To be honest, I had no clue what a “fediverse” was until a week ago, but I’m fascinated and inspired by the idea of it. I am loving all of these new, interesting platforms that aren’t run by some soulless billionaires who care more about ad revenue than actual content or users’ interests.

I really wanted to like Storygraph, but it constantly crashed on me. :(

I’m enjoying the lack of bullshit and bells and whistles. Sometimes it’s a tiny bit buggy, like randomly logging me out or crashing while loading a book, little things like that, but I’m liking it enough to give it a proper chance.

So true about the long-winded reviews nowadays. I feel like they’re one of three templates lately: grade school book report ; “omg yas best book ever” with descriptive gifs ; or pure vitriol. I miss when GR reviews were actually helpful.

As for Bookwyrm, that was one of the main reasons I made this post, because it didn’t seem like there were many users, but the app itself is slowly growing on me.

I think that’s what I’m essentially looking for at this point. I used to love GR for the reviews, but I guess I’ve just reached my saturation point with the platform in general.

And I so wanted to like Storygraph, but it kept crashing on me. :(