📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm

EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.

@chrisn@beehaw.org
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The feature I liked most in goodreads, was that it would send you a monthly email with “new books by authors you’ve read”. It would send it at the start of the month, which was not actionable, but if you’d just wait a few months reading it, it was easy to see that LE Modesitt Jr finished another book in the series I enjoyed.

They stopped sending that, now it’s a “here are some books we want you to show some interest in”.

I got a bookwyrm account, and apart from not knowing all the books I’ve read, they also can’t tell me what books have come out recently, by authors I enjoyed in the past.

I’d think that would be a basic part of any book collection tool.

@jarfil@beehaw.org
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They stopped sending that, now it’s a “here are some books we want you to show some interest in”.

Sounds like a great example of enshittification.

Stage 2, I think?

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