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{{Infobox |title=BookWyrm |website=joinbookwyrm.com |instance=bookwyrm.social |mastohandle=@bookwyrm |mastoinstance=tech.lgbt}} | |||
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BookWyrm is a book cataloguing platform and the {{Internal link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}}'s replacement for Goodreads. | |||
BookWyrm is a book cataloguing platform and the {{Internal | |||
== What does BookWyrm feel like? == <!--T:2--> | == What does BookWyrm feel like? == <!--T:2--> | ||
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Goodreads belongs to Amazon, tracks your behavior online and is aimed at making profit for the bookseller that owns it. <br> | Goodreads belongs to Amazon, tracks your behavior online and is aimed at making profit for the bookseller that owns it. <br> | ||
BookWyrm, on the other hand, is focused on community sharing, discussion and kindness.<br> | BookWyrm, on the other hand, is focused on community sharing, discussion and kindness.<br> | ||
BookWyrm is part of the {{Internal | BookWyrm is part of the {{Internal link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=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 {{Internal | You don't need a BookWyrm account to follow BookWyrm users. You can do that from {{Internal link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} or {{Internal link |target=What is Pleroma? |link-name=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. | 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 | == Further reading == <!--T:16--> | ||
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== Weblinks == <!--T:9--> | == Weblinks == <!--T:9--> | ||