Carighan Maconar

Other way around. Open Library is part of the internet archive. Given it’s also vastly superior in quality and has tools to maintain and administrate the data, I very much prefer it over alternative offerings. If Bookwyrm at least had a curation/maintainence team or support group or something, and not everyone could just nilly-willy add duplicates of existing entries, then I could see more use for it.

But like others have said, it’s also a bit of a different use case. If you want to pull data, definitely do it from OL. They’re the same source Bookwyrm uses for its main data import, after all.

Considering who is behind it, I just use Open Library. In particular because like you say, their actual data is much more useful.

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Yeah same, also I don’t usually need a year to think that. The next day often works. 😅

And it s hows… Excel. 🤦

Seems to depend massively on the sub though, most I am in will never see a right winger above -20 and constantly mocked at best.

Oh the Predator target marker!

I miss mercurial and it’s far more sensical flags and commands…

Oh it couldn’t have happened to a better bunch! 😈

Yes, and it’s inherently designed not to be.

But it also bears repeating that decentralization by itself has no advantage, either.

Mastodon did it to themselves.

There’s a reason Bluesky has a UI that’s more or less exactly like old Twitter. It makes for a smooth transfer.

I mean, I feel it’s a misunderstanding of what users actually use social media for.

Just of top of your head, can you list three reasons they want to join the Fediverse for a “normal” Reddit user? Because I struggle to name one, nevermind three. There’s all the technical reasons, ethical stuff, etc. But that’s all something that enthusiasts would consider, and it goes against how the vast vast majority of users use social media where the more centralized the better as it multiplicatively expands the pool of content and interactions to have everyone centralized.

The Fediverse shows this, in fact! Note how resistant users are to spread over instances, in fact being always after centralizing on the bigger ones. But this isn’t a bad thing really, as it’s simply the nature of social media. Of course far less necessary on federated stuff, but there’s also no reason not to (again, from the perspective of someone wanting to use social media, not advocate).

It’s not an easy thing to do to get users here. The place inherently doesn’t appeal to those it would need to appeal to.

Not too be confused with the Masturbatron.

And the fediverse will be there to catch them.

Ah yes, just like it happened with Twitter! (or you’re not talking about average person but techies)

Only relevant stuff is mentioned. 😛

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Hold on, are you confusing something being hurting (as in, causing pain and/or pathological damage) with something being exhausting (as in, strains your eyes) with something being annoying?

Because if the three words are used interchangeably in your vocabulary that’d explain a lot of your seemingly random posts in the comments here. They’re not the same (at all) to most people and especially not on a medical level (like that article you yourself provided, there is no medical evidence for non-extreme light sources making a difference in eye health).

You really should read pages you want to link. And I say this as a die-hard dark mode user. It’s worrying that you so aggressively attack people get cannot even read the page you link far enough to notice that what you are saying about it is nonsense (like how it has “the same reason”, which of course it doesn’t, as made clear in the article).

Or you know, at least don’t be such a dick. That’s also help a lot!

[citation needed]

I think some allow Mastodon login!