I believe a better GoodReads can only be a a non-profit. Maybe something federated. Financial possibilities are almost done for. GR is too big. Event LibraryThi

I believe a better GoodReads can only be a a non-profit. Maybe something federated. Financial possibilities are almost done for. GR is too big. Event LibraryThing has Amazon money in it. There was this reco.com (now shutdown) which was more like "recos by famous people". I didn't like that idea but I had anyway checked it out hoping it might become something better. It didn't. Jinni kind of permanently dissuaded me from building a profile on recommendation sites feeding their recommendation engines only to see a shuttered gate after a while. Though it's actually better in cinema space right now. There are some academic options (or were; not sure what is something like Movie Lens right now)