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{{Infobox |title=BookWyrm |website=joinbookwyrm.com |instance=bookwyrm.social |mastohandle=@bookwyrm |mastoinstance=tech.lgbt}} | {{Infobox |title=BookWyrm |website=joinbookwyrm.com |instance=bookwyrm.social |mastohandle=@bookwyrm |mastoinstance=tech.lgbt}} | ||
BookWyrm is a book cataloguing platform and the [[What is the Fediverse? | Fediverse]]'s replacement for Goodreads. | BookWyrm is a book cataloguing platform and the [[What is the Fediverse? | Fediverse]]'s replacement for Goodreads. | ||
== What does BookWyrm feel like? == <!--T:2--> | == What does BookWyrm feel like? == <!--T:2--> | ||
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BookWyrm is part of the [[What is the Fediverse? | Fediverse]] and as such decentralized. That means you can create your own little BookWyrm instance e.g. for your friends and connect to other instances.<br> | BookWyrm is part of the [[What is the Fediverse? | Fediverse]] and as such decentralized. That means you can create your own little BookWyrm instance e.g. for your friends and connect to other instances.<br> | ||
You don't need a BookWyrm account to follow BookWyrm users. You can do that from [[What is Mastodon? | Mastodon]] or [[What is Pleroma?|Pleroma]]. | You don't need a BookWyrm account to follow BookWyrm users. You can do that from [[What is Mastodon? | Mastodon]] or [[What is Pleroma?|Pleroma]]. | ||
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BookWyrm is published under the [https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENSE.md anti-capitalist software license] which is not a Free Software license according to the Free Software Foundation, but, as the name says, an anti-capitalist license. That means that nobody can profit off the project. | |||
== Further Reading == <!--T:7--> | == Further Reading == <!--T:7--> | ||