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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

BookWyrm was my first dip into the Fediverse, back when I was looking for an alternative to Goodreads.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Really surprised it's the only book related fork of the fediverse here

Do people not read any more?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

I don't think this is the exact cause for the situation, but having more book related forks would probably just do harm by splitting up the audience. The book reading trackers are absolutely dominated by Goodreads, and any alternative desperately needs as much user concentration as possible.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't think you can correlate the number of readers to the number of book instances or whatever they're called. Most people (myself included) probably just use Goodreads, and BookWyrm is probably a good enough alternative that there's no need to spin up another.

Edit: according to this there's a lot of instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Most people I know who read a lot use StoryGraph, and mostly for personal tracking, not as a social app.