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- technews@radiation.party
- literature
📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm
EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.
📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm
EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.
I’ve been using StoryGraph since it came around and really enjoy it. I’ve looked at BookWyrm, but I haven’t considered switching yet.
The article mentions the WaPo connection to Amazon and its board, as they should, but I’m surprised to see this particular topic there, too.
This particular paragraph is disingenuous in its characterization of what’s going on with Reddit, though:
Honest question: how does StoryGraph value your privacy? Being based in the US and being for free suggests that user data could be the real product. Otherwise it obviously looks really nice and I would love to use their stats.
Not sure what she gets from it, but my partner pays for Storygraph because of how bad Goodreads has become.
It’s changed over time. You used to get recommendations and other things, but they opened that to everyone fairly recently. Now, we get extra stats and things like that, which is still good to me. I mainly pay to support the development and to allow it to remain available for others who can’t pay.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/privacy But, what private info you are worried about liked/disliked books linked to a email?
Read the privacy statement but couldn’t figure out how to interpet it. I’m not worried about it that much but would like to avoid further feeding into big data. Not sure how, but the books I read could easily tell a lot about me.
StoryGraph appears to be based in the UK from what I’ve seen, so GDPR etc may apply. They also don’t appear to be owned by a major corporation
Oh thanks! Didn’t see that :)
I find SG’s recommendations to be the best, I deleted my GR account a year an a half ago, it was all paid “influencers” writing gushing reviews of books that I hated.
I did appreciate giveaways on GR, but I always gave appropriate reviews based on my real opinion. I haven’t won any giveaways on SG yet, but I’m still trying! 😁