Tokophobia.

It's been years since I reread this and I still call her "Pants".

Agreed! I've come across a couple of writing communities here, but they're still just starting out. Hopefully we'll be able to grow these communities. 🤞

Non-tech background. I'm a book editor and when the Snoopocalypse happened, most of the niche communities I was a part of were shut down in protest, so I decided to give Lemmy a try. Loving it so far, as it seems way less toxic.

I think it's still in need of some development, but it does the job well. And I love the lack of useless bells and whistles.

You're right not to trust anyone. I stopped trusting GR when it started exclusively "recommending" books that were popular on Tiktok. It was a swift and merciless breakup.

That doesn't even remotely surprise me coming from Amazon, inflating itself with garbage.

I totally agree on giving Bookwyrm a chance. To be honest, I had no clue what a "fediverse" was until a week ago, but I'm fascinated and inspired by the idea of it. I am loving all of these new, interesting platforms that aren't run by some soulless billionaires who care more about ad revenue than actual content or users' interests.

I'm enjoying the lack of bullshit and bells and whistles. Sometimes it's a tiny bit buggy, like randomly logging me out or crashing while loading a book, little things like that, but I'm liking it enough to give it a proper chance.

I think that's what I'm essentially looking for at this point. I used to love GR for the reviews, but I guess I've just reached my saturation point with the platform in general.

And I so wanted to like Storygraph, but it kept crashing on me. :(