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BobQuasit
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Good idea! I just posted a link to r/politicalhumor.
But aren't Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?
I don't really track my reading. Maybe I should have, but I never really saw the point. Besides, most of my reading predates the web. I've been reading since 1966. That said, I did a TON of book recommendations on Reddit at r/booksuggestions and r/SuggestMeABook. I ended up creating a Google doc to store the recommendations I wrote for re-use. That turned out to be a good idea; I separated the recs into genres, and polished them as I noticed mistakes or areas for improvement.
Eventually someone asked me to make that Google doc public, so I did.
Meanwhile I'm on BookWyrm. I was part of a group that left GoodReads when Amazon took over; we set up a community on Google Plus (RIP) to search for alternatives to GoodReads and Amazon (see what I mean about greedy corporations destroying one community after another?). We set up a research project to find and test replacement services. If BookWyrm had existed back then, it would have been far and away the best choice. It needs more development, but I'm willing to wait for that to happen. Meanwhile I'm having fun with it.
One thing for sure: I will NEVER trust a service owned by a plutocrat or corporation ever again.
I'm on StoryGraph too (and BookWyrm), but I've been burned WAY too often by profiteers. GoodReads in particular is seared into my memory; their owners lied to users to get tens of thousands of free hours of labor out of us (to "save GoodReads from Amazon"), all while they were negotiating to sell out to Amazon! And then Amazon immediately started censoring and shadowbanning reviews to suit their corporate bottom line.
I've seen far too many great digital communities destroyed by greedy vulture capitalists. I'm done. If a service has a single owner - plutocrat or corporation - it automatically goes to the bottom of the list. I'll stick with BookWyrm, thanks! It may be a little light on features so far, but I'd rather put my work in there and wait for improvements.
There is a mobile app for kbin, though. It's not great, but it exists. I'm using it right now!
Inertia is the most powerful force in the universe...of human psychology.
...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?
I am disappointed.
God, I hope so. I don't see any way to stop the billionaires from killing off our species, at this point. But I want to at least see those psychotic monsters suffer before we all go!
Same here. I'm kind of suspecting that Reddit isn't going to be giving me my data anytime soon, if ever!
Yeah, I'm another old school early adopter who was on the internet since the '80s. No way the enshittification and souring of Reddit was caused by boomers and Gen xers. Most of them wouldn't know how to get on, and those who would... Honestly, I'm the only boomer I know who is on there. Well, unless you go to some of the subreddits that are specifically for people over 50. And those people are incredibly nice! One of the few things I will really miss about Reddit.
Reddit's enshittification was delayed by COVID, but it happened nonetheless.