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BookWyrm mentions (13)

• What do you all think of the site Bookwyrm?

  BookWyrm.social is a social book tracher similiar to sites like Goodreads and StoryGraph. Source: 11 months ago

• You gotta bookwyrmmaxx

  So I've seen some talk about social reading sites on here and I want to recommend as an alternative https://bookwyrm.social which I have been using for one or two years now. It is a federated service which means that several instances of it exist which can share information with each other (like Mastodon). Source: over 1 year ago

• An idea

  I’ve heard good things about BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/. Source: over 1 year ago

• New instance bookstodon.com welcomes bibliophiles, bookworms, book lovers, and all things bookish 📚📚

  Clarifying question: How will this be different from https://bookwyrm.social/? Source: over 1 year ago

• An app to track books, video games, tv series, movies...

  Goodreads is owned by Amazon, if you want an independent tool for tracking your reads, there's Bookwyrm https://bookwyrm.social/. Source: over 1 year ago

Matrix.org mentions (583)

• Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users

  The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I've used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else. So... Since I've heard about the ads coming to discord, and I have looked into alternatives. They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of... - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• Qilin: A Starter Project Template For Every Open Source Project

  GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

  Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it's worth keeping in mind that it's not end-to-end encrypted, so it's less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use. For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in),... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger

  I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance. [0] https://matrix.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Meta is pulling the plug on Messenger chats on Instagram

  Trillian mod here. There's this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It's not as the good old times, but I'm currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It's not Cerulean experience, but it's... Slowly improving. Source: 6 months ago