This is the official account for #Bookwyrm: a decentralized social network for tracking your reading and talking about books
Learn more:
Follow
BookWyrm
@BookWyrmSocial
Social reading and reviewing, decentralized. Follow us in the fediverse: tech.lgbt/@bookwyrm
joinbookwyrm.comJoined July 2021
BookWyrm’s Tweets
BookWyrm is a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.
Follow this account for development news and more!
Code: github.com/bookwyrm-socia
Docs:…
📚 It's a delight to have new folks coming into BookWyrm and the Fediverse!
If you'd like to join BookWyrm, you have a few options:
1. Join an existing instance: joinbookwyrm.com/instances/
2. Run your own: docs.joinbookwyrm.com
3. Get managed hosting:…
3
4
BookWyrm is now offering hosted instances via Patreon. If you'd like to have your own instance without the technical work, you now can!
Learn more:
2
Translations abound! BookWyrm is now available in 🇫🇮 Finnish and
🇷🇴 Romanian
🇸🇪 Pratar du svenska? BookWyrm is available in Swedish! 🇸🇪
2
Topics to follow
Sign up to get Tweets about the Topics you follow in your Home timeline.
Carousel
✨ New feature ✨
Scan a book's ISBN barcode from your device camera to find it on BookWyrm
read image description
ALT
2
11
BookWyrm is now themeable! You can use the preset light and dark mode themes, or create your own and ask your instance admin to add it
read image description
ALT
3
4
Just a reminder that if you’re looking for a smaller, open-source, non-commercial alternative to Goodreads, BookWyrm is a delight.
Quote Tweet
You can now add links to books to show fellow readers where those books can be obtained! Examples are links to free electronic versions as well as bookstore pages.
read image description
ALT
19
48
You can now add links to books to show fellow readers where those books can be obtained! Examples are links to free electronic versions as well as bookstore pages.
read image description
ALT
1
2
10
BookWyrm is now available in Norwegian and Italian! Thank you so much to 🐘tomasekeli@mastodon.technology and 🐘alephoto85@mastodon.social for all the hard work
If you want to contribute, go to translate.joinbookwyrm.com
1
It's been a long year but at least we have books! Check out your reading recap on BookWyrm:
bookwyrm.social/my-year-in-the
1
4
Filter your updates feed -- BookWyrm now lets you select what kind of statuses you want to see on your timeline
4
users and entities activities can now be followed from the #Fediverse! mamot.fr/@inventaire/10
#inventaireio #activitypub #experiment
2
2
🇱🇹 BookWyrm is now available in Lithuanian! Big thank you to 🐘flowere@river.group.lt and 🐘saint@river.group.lt for their work 💖
If you want to add or improve our translations, it's easier than ever: translate.joinbookwyrm.com
3
Would you like to help translate BookWyrm? There's now an easy way to get involved:
translate.joinbookwyrm.com
3
5
⭐ BookWyrm now supports half-star ratings - click the star a second time to take it from full to half
read image description
ALT
1
2
11
Feedback request for BookWyrm users: how would you like the app to behave when you want to abandon a book you've started?
2
1
You can now save lists on BookWyrm, so if there's a list you like, you can find it again easily
6
BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookwy
1
4
33
Finally a decentralized alternative to Goodreads with 🙌
joinbookwyrm.com
Including csv import from Goodreads 😍
wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookwy
Here the main instance to join: bookwyrm.social
#decentralized #federated #bookwyrm #readinglist #library
2
7
Thanks to 🐘sean@social.deadsuperhero.com for writing this amazing review through his We Distribute blog
We really appreciate it and loved to read it!
Check it out here:
wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookwy
1
2
If you're excited about BookWyrm development and have the means, consider supporting it on Patreon!
Your support goes a long way to making development sustainable.
7
11
We're rolling out a new timeline! The books timeline will show public status updates about your books from all over the BookWyrm network. You can still see local updates in your "Discover" page, which is designed to emphasize the hyper-local community on each instance.
4
BookWyrm is a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next
See joinbookwyrm.com
#technology #reading #bookwrm #fediverse #opensource #books #alternativeto #decentralized
5
5
We're also on Mastodon (and will cross-post updates from there):
Show this thread
You can @ this account with questions or comments, and follow for updates about the project 💖
1
3
Show this thread