Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Posting tips and answering questions about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌍 There are lots of guides on my site at https://fedi.tips. If you can't find your answer @ or DM me, there's no such thing as a silly question! I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https://liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @FediThing, banner artwork is by @posiputt 🎂 Account originally joined mstdn.social on 16th Nov 2020
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Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Posting tips and answering questions about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse 🌍 There are lots of guides on my site at https://fedi.tips. If you can't find your answer @ or DM me, there's no such thing as a silly question! I am a volunteer, you can buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/fedithing or become a patron at https://liberapay.com/FediThing Maintained by @FediThing, banner artwork is by @posiputt 🎂 Account originally joined mstdn.social on 16th Nov 2020
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
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Apr 18, 2026
Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
BookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances
#FediTips #Books #Reading #BookWyrm #GoodReads
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Jürgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
Translates German folk tales. Tries to learn #Italian . #ttrpg #pnpde #dnd #folklore
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Jürgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
Translates German folk tales. Tries to learn #Italian . #ttrpg #pnpde #dnd #folklore
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
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Feb 05, 2026
@minzastro@datasci.social
Well, #Fediverse systems like #BookWyrm and #NeoDB already allow for global search of media metadata.
I realize that storing actual PDFs and the like on such servers will require a lot more server capacity, but is the principle really all that different?
And there are plenty of independent digital libraries hosted by universities and research institutes, such as the MDZ (which I use a lot). But they use different software and generally only allow local search.
I feel that if there was a Fediverse approach to hosting and searching for such documents - one which private users could also host - then it would be a huge step forward for preserving our cultural heritage.
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/
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Rolle Laukkarinen
@rolle@mementomori.social
CTO @dude (a WordPress agency), web dev, admin of several servers like this one, programmer, *nix user, and advocate for an open and ethical Internet. Creator of Mastodon Bird UI. I work with servers, websites, and open source for a living. I'm safe. 🌈
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Rolle Laukkarinen
@rolle@mementomori.social
CTO @dude (a WordPress agency), web dev, admin of several servers like this one, programmer, *nix user, and advocate for an open and ethical Internet. Creator of Mastodon Bird UI. I work with servers, websites, and open source for a living. I'm safe. 🌈
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@rolle@mementomori.social
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Jan 29, 2026
I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.
But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.
I read a lot and have mostly been using https://getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. https://margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.
So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?
#Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost
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