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"A portion of the proceeds go towards the Yunakin land tax." An _Anti Corporate_ organisation adopting a very corporate measure in my view. If taxes could lea

by hirako2000 5y ago

"A portion of the proceeds go towards the Yunakin land tax." An _Anti Corporate_ organisation adopting a very corporate measure in my view. If taxes could lead to justice, then native Americans would be far less prone to poverty, alcoholism and depression. About the product itself, it's hard to see how this is an alternative to goodreads. The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. A great model for decentralised moderation etc. The parallel could be made with reddit, not so much with goodreads where over half of the books in existence are listed, very often rated/reviewed.

rektide 5y ago
> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website. An unfortunately limited & skeptical view. Hopefully you just need to be better informed. If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever, they want, and we can interoperate!
rektide 5y ago
> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website. If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever they want, and we can interoperate! Interoperate & co-evolve.
- hirako2000 5y ago
  Sorry I wasn't clear with what I meant stating silos. And I'm all for decentralisation, and value the open effort of Bookwyrm. Silo: the federation aspect, from what I understand of the currently hosted communities using this tech is making the exploration of books contained within each federated host. Maybe I am wrong in which case I will retract my critic. Peertube suffers the same problem. So a constructive comment would be: decentralisation is great, and if the federation design bridges the gap so that information from each node in the system can be searched then that's a rock solid solution as a repository of books information, reviews and discussions. Please accept my apologise, I certainly came off as negative and the comment I made was not deserved , especially considering the free and open effort there.
  - fragileone 5y ago
    With PeerTube there's Sepia Search [1] which allows searching for videos across all instances. All federated networks basically need open-source, centralised search engines like Sepia Search to enable users to search across all federated instances. [1] http://sepiasearch.org/ http://sepiasearch.org/

rektide 5y ago

> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website. An unfortunately limited & skeptical view. Hopefully you just need to be better informed. If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever, they want, and we can interoperate!

rektide 5y ago

> The federation is designed in a way that silos communities. You seem to have taken the exact opposite view of what anyone in the fediverse would consider this as. This is many connected communities. Not siloed. That's what "decentralized" means, their very first major point on the website. If there's real gaps in how federation works to connect, the fediverse is happy to discuss, adapt, & adopt: bring on your more specific complaints! This is supposed to be the cure for silos! Everyone can run whatever they want, and we can interoperate! Interoperate & co-evolve.

hirako2000 5y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear with what I meant stating silos. And I'm all for decentralisation, and value the open effort of Bookwyrm. Silo: the federation aspect, from what I understand of the currently hosted communities using this tech is making the exploration of books contained within each federated host. Maybe I am wrong in which case I will retract my critic. Peertube suffers the same problem. So a constructive comment would be: decentralisation is great, and if the federation design bridges the gap so that information from each node in the system can be searched then that's a rock solid solution as a repository of books information, reviews and discussions. Please accept my apologise, I certainly came off as negative and the comment I made was not deserved , especially considering the free and open effort there.
- fragileone 5y ago
  With PeerTube there's Sepia Search [1] which allows searching for videos across all instances. All federated networks basically need open-source, centralised search engines like Sepia Search to enable users to search across all federated instances. [1] http://sepiasearch.org/ http://sepiasearch.org/