phazed09

I don't use Bookwyrm either, but coming from the perspective of Storygraph, I don't really think the average user there wants their review to become a talking point. I'm not really writing them for deep discussion or analysis, just my off-the-cuff thoughts on finishing a book, more for my own sake too. I also don't want to see threaded conversations when i'm skimming over reviews to decide on a book to read. Hence why I think it makes more sense for a publicly follow but don't interact type of federation for those types of services.

Reading is a skill, and if you don't do it for a long while it can be hard to focus for long chunks of time. The 10 minute thing isn't a hard rule, just a target. But I do think at least for a while it helps to build up routine and focus as you get back into the swing of things.

The official VR apps for Skyrim and Fallout 4 were lacking out of the box, but they're damn good experiences with mods.

I think for me the problem with Bookwyrm (and one of the reasons I'm not really looking to move from Storygraph) is that I don't really see services like Goodreads or Storygraph as social networks. I'm more interested in being able to manage lists, recommendations, progress, etc than I am with interacting with users on those platforms. I think they're so specialized, that federating with those types of apps to Lemmy would end up a lot of noise on both that wouldn't really make sense for either.

The only thing I can see making sense for federation for me is maybe being able to follow a reviewer I like via my Mastdon account, so I can keep track of reviews without having to log into the platform.

That's just my thoughts though, but full scale federation vs something more like RSS to me is where the line between social network and app with social features lies for me.

Start with a relatively short page turner. Force yourself to read for 10 minutes at a set time every day. I found that when I was in a bit of reading funk, I had to simply take it a day at a time with small, easily digestible chunks. Once you get the first one out of the way, it starts to feel a lot more natural to work your way through more.

Using the iMessage analogy, we're currently in a state where green bubbles can't interact with blue bubbles at all. Nobody should be expecting full interop with a corporate platform, but for the long run I'd rather have partial interop at arms length.

Embrace extend extinguish only applies if platform is so focused that it cannot sustain itself without the extend phase, and the extend phase cannot happen without something to embrace.

I'm fine with reposting stuff like News, where it's relatively impersonal and I'm not necessarily concerned with comments.

But I also like having more in depth conversations on the creative stuff. Just having bots post that feels impersonal.

I guess it depends on the magazine.

People aren't seeing the forest for the trees here. Yeah, nobody likes Meta, but the larger impact of Bill C18 will be that sources like Google and other large aggregators will stop allowing links to legitimate news sources, and instead be flooded by blogspam and misinformation.

People won't suddenly be navigating to The Toronto Star when they don't get news on the latest updates in say the Corona virus in their immediate Google results, they'll just continue to click on through to whatever sketchy source manages to SEO their way to the top instead.

This will essentially break Google News and the like in Canada. It's idiotic in so many ways.

And this is why you always immediately turn on branch protection.

I'm pretty sure the same thing happened to my printer. I ended up with a bunch of dumb photos, printed them out, and never used it again after that because I didn't want to buy more paper.

The look of Gameboy Camera posts always makes me insanely nostalgic. It's such a distinct look, and I loved mine back in the day (still think I have it stored somewhere in my closet).

Also cool: I found this Lemmy post via Kbin, then followed the Pixelfed user via my Mastdon account. Federation is cool.