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Very excited to see a decentralized alternative to Amazon-owned Goodreads & LibraryThing, the latter which I recently learned is 40%-owned by Amazon through a s

Very excited to see a decentralized alternative to Amazon-owned Goodreads & LibraryThing, the latter which I recently learned is 40%-owned by Amazon through a subsidiary AbeBooks. I'm not too familiar with the fediverse model. I noticed that registration is closed on the primary instance bookwyrm.social.[1] Is the ideal use case of bookwyrm for each user to host their own instance? Like this one: https://book.dansmonorage.blue/ https://book.dansmonorage.blue/ As a user, I wouldn't want to sign up on someone's hobbyist bookwyrm instance only for them to shut it down later and lose all my data. 1. https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/instances.html https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/instances.html

matthberg 5y ago
That info is out of date, bookwyrm.social is in open registration now. A more accurate list of instances is available here: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/. I signed up on bookwyrm.social (here: https://bookwyrm.social https://bookwyrm.social), though it took a notably long time to receive the email confirmation message.
- Krasnol 5y ago
  The whole instance is quite slow now. Email took something around 20min for me.
  - commoner 5y ago
    Probably the HN effect. Give it a day and I'd expect the site to speed up as the traffic falls.
    - Krasnol 5y ago
      Yes, I'm pretty sure that's it but it was still working. Just a bit slow.
    - bookwyrm-social 5y ago
      yes, it's running slower than usual because of the traffic spike (more registrations in an hour than over the last two months)
input_sh 5y ago
> As a user, I wouldn't want to sign up on someone's hobbyist bookwyrm instance only for them to shut it down later and lose all my data. Mastodon goes around this problem by only linking to servers that adhere to their covenant[0], which includes sane stuff like daily backups, >1 person with access to the server, minimum of 3 months notice before shutdown, and moderation. So, any community you see here[1] promises to give you a notice. I'm assuming other software will eventually reach the number of servers where something similar makes sense to implement. [0] https://joinmastodon.org/covenant https://joinmastodon.org/covenant [1] https://joinmastodon.org/communities https://joinmastodon.org/communities

matthberg 5y ago

That info is out of date, bookwyrm.social is in open registration now. A more accurate list of instances is available here: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/. I signed up on bookwyrm.social (here: https://bookwyrm.social https://bookwyrm.social), though it took a notably long time to receive the email confirmation message.

Krasnol 5y ago
The whole instance is quite slow now. Email took something around 20min for me.
- commoner 5y ago
  Probably the HN effect. Give it a day and I'd expect the site to speed up as the traffic falls.
  - Krasnol 5y ago
    Yes, I'm pretty sure that's it but it was still working. Just a bit slow.
  - bookwyrm-social 5y ago
    yes, it's running slower than usual because of the traffic spike (more registrations in an hour than over the last two months)

input_sh 5y ago

> As a user, I wouldn't want to sign up on someone's hobbyist bookwyrm instance only for them to shut it down later and lose all my data. Mastodon goes around this problem by only linking to servers that adhere to their covenant[0], which includes sane stuff like daily backups, >1 person with access to the server, minimum of 3 months notice before shutdown, and moderation. So, any community you see here[1] promises to give you a notice. I'm assuming other software will eventually reach the number of servers where something similar makes sense to implement. [0] https://joinmastodon.org/covenant https://joinmastodon.org/covenant [1] https://joinmastodon.org/communities https://joinmastodon.org/communities