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Musing about Bookwyrm. i have an account on Bookwyrm.social, which i abandoned when it wasn't federating properly and wasn't getting fixed after weeks. i now use sfba.club. it's got over a hundred users, but that's dwarfed by bookwyrm.social's thousands. and I'm easily one of the most active on sfba.club.

so here's what I'm noticing: bookwyrm has even more of a problem connecting people to the wider fediverse than mastodon. if a server doesn't see a post, it doesn't know about it.

in mastodon, boosts expand the network. a@server1 follows b@server2 and b follows c@server3. b boosts c and because of that, server1 knows about the post.

bookwyrm users don't boost that much, so cross server enrichment doesn't happen much. if i look at a particular book, i won't get the benefit of reviews from server3 because few if any boost from server2. setver1 never sees them.

small bookwyrm servers are even more starved than small mastodon servers.

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