BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to GoodReads.
They've just opened their onboarding site at:
("Onboarding" is when you make it as easy as possible for people to join something.)
BookWyrm and its instances are currently still in beta testing, but you can join now if you want to try it out. Instances marked as "closed" mean you can join but you have to request an invitation.
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famubu
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •Does anyone know if we can see messages originally posted on a bookwyrm instance on a mastodon instance yet?
I tried to find a random user from bookwyrm.social/ from the mastodon instance that I am, but could get it.
FediTips has moved!
in reply to famubu • • •Yes, you can. BookWyrm federates with Mastodon etc.
For example @mouse is viewable from Mastodon.
famubu
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •famubu
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •I tried replacing 'mouse' with 'thumb' (bookwyrm.social/user/thumb/), but that profile is not showing up in our mastodon instance.
Any idea why that could be?
mouse profile was floss.social/web/@mouse@bookwy…
So I tried
floss.social/web/@thumb@bookwy…
but it doesn't show up.
FLOSS.social
Mastodon hosted on floss.socialfamubu
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •I tried replacing 'mouse' with 'thumb' (bookwyrm.social/user/thumb/), but that profile is not showing up in our mastodon instance.
Any idea why that could be?
mouse profile was floss.social/web/@mouse@bookwy…
So I tried
floss.social/web/@thumb@bookwy…
but it doesn't show up.
FLOSS.social
Mastodon hosted on floss.socialmouse reeve
in reply to famubu • • •FediTips has moved!
in reply to mouse reeve • • •I just tried searching for bookwyrm.social/user/thumb/ and it worked fine on mstdn.social, mas.to and mastodon.online.
One possibility is there was a bug on a recent version of Mastodon to do with long links to non-Mastodon platforms. I think it's been fixed on the latest version so perhaps when your instance updates these links might start working?
But as salt marsh says, looking up the username (AT username AT instance) should work too?
famubu
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •I have no idea what happened. But when I search for the user named thumb, it shows up all right on my instance as well.
But it definitely wasn't showing up despite multiple attempts earlier.
And even today I initially got a error 503 (I think it was 3 at the end) initially.
Perhaps the user will show up only after someone in my instance @ mentions them or something, maybe.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to famubu • •I've had some trouble with this. I've been taking with the developer and they've had me open a ticket for them.
In the meantime, you can paste the link for the post into your search and then boost it.
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •David Jayatillake
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