In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse. He also explains why all public broadcasting professionals should try out Mastodon.
  • StarEnglish
    120·
    7 months ago

    They also run bookwyrm.world! A fediverse alternative of Goodreads.

    • islesEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

      Oh thank you so much for sharing! I abandoned Goodreads because it lacked trustworthiness (why does an unreleased novel have 10,000 5 star reviews?)

      • revisable677English
        20·
        7 months ago

        Not federated but I can really recommend trying out hardcover.app/

        They’re not federated but have very good import/export tools if you want to take your data somewhere else.

        • islesEnglish
          20·
          7 months ago

          Thank you! I’ll check that out as well, though I value highly federation.

          • revisable677English
            20·
            7 months ago

            Me too, hopefully they federate at some point. The team behind Hardcover seem to support the ideas of the open web… at least data portability and so on. Let’s see if a meaningful connection with Bookwyrm is possible in the future.

      • SomeoneElseEnglish
        20·
        7 months ago

        Advance free give aways in exchange for “honest” reviews. Still shady af.

        • islesEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago

          Well, at least there’s the veneer of authenticity, ha. Thanks for the extra context.