I strongly disagree. Multiple times I've been playing a game and a friend saw my Discord status and chatted with me about it. It's just another way for my friends to see my interests, nothing new on the internet.
Would I want this status to be displayed somewhere else (especially a more FOSSy place)? Hell yeah. But there isn't any, and the people that rarely talk to me and are into gaming, aren't, unfortunately, on anywhere else but Discord.
labor unions based as always!!! brasil!! 🇧🇷
I've downloaded and tested it for a bit and it does look a bit too good to be true. The source code is licensed under AGPL, and the F-Droid app page didn't show any anti-features. And I also really liked the app itself.
However, while it does enable self-host of the same data (and it's pretty easy too. you can even self-host from your phone! I wish more note apps did this) and manual exporting/importing, the cloud syncing (even to a third-party server of your choice) is locked behind a paywall. While I do understand paying for a service to save my data, it does bother me that I can't sync with my own servers, which should not require any service from their part.
The app also includes a login feature that lets you use a specific text-oriented Chinese social media (that also seems to be fully open source and AGPL licensed!). Honestly, I wouldn't be bothered by it especially since it's opt-in, and doesn't seem to do anything with your notes unless logged-in. Though I don't know how self-hostable it is, and even if it were, the app does not give me the option to enter my own server.
And to top it all off, it has a bullshit AI feature (that seems opt-in). I don't think I need to explain why this is very icky.
Considering everything, it seems like an awesome app for people that use the specific social media it is optionally coupled with. But anyone that doesn't and prefers to sync your data to a self-hosted server will be left without options. Also, you must consider that it apparently doesn't seem to phone home, according to F-Droid, though it is very strange that the network, social media, and especially AI features are not mentioned at all as anti-features. So if you would want to be sure, I'd recommend you to read the source code and deduce yourself if it doesn't phone anywhere you haven't allowed to by default.
I personally wouldn't use it myself, but if you trust it doesn't phone home, don't care about manually exporting and importing your data, and isn't bothered by the weird network features, I'd say it's a great notes app.
A lot of people do use Bookwyrm! It just depends on finding the right community.
I am on a fairly small brazilian instance (velhaestante.com.br) and even though I joined while not knowing anybody I still get a fair amount of interactivity. Not enough to be logging in every day, of course, our instance is not nearly as big as something like bookwyrm.social and I don't read and update that often.
It's just like any other fediverse software. Even on a small instance you can get a fair level of interactivity and on top of that you can still interact with big instances and large amounts of content! Of course, if you just create an account and forget about it, or you don't use it very often, and don't seek out interactions/following other people, of course you won't get the same level of content in your feed as if you were on GoodReads.
That's the charm of the fediverse!
didn't know that bunny girl senpai was getting another season. the show is pretty good imo, so that's cool.
but most importantly I remember this show for introducing me to my favorite japanese band, the peggies. it's a shame that they split up indefinitely some time ago. I already miss their stuff :P
I highly recommend them!
not open source, unfortunately.
"bro, just trust me, ~~2020~~ ~~2021~~ ~~2022~~ 2023 will be the year of the Linux desktop!"
okay, okay, I'll declare it
Friend[] myFriends() {
return {};
}
quote stolen directly from the repo:
"Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired." — Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
actual skirts and dresses being a common piece of clothing for men. I love how they look and feel
Programming in Go is a blast. I love using the language and the ecosystem.
But let me tell you, Google never made it any more enjoyable to use Go or to be part of its community. Quite the opposite.
I wonder if we are somewhat close to straight up forking it or trying to create a different compiler, just so the community doesn't have to put up with Google anymore, or at least we begin to actually be heard.
Celeste deeply impacted me. It immediately turned to be one of my favorite games of all time, even if I suck so badly at it (still hasn't been able to beat the post-game content lol).
I use one of the beautiful official phone wallpapers (the pixelated one) available on the EXOK Games website. Highly recommend them!