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  • natbennett · 6 days ago

    Specifically for his private social media that’s a benefit for his paid subscribers. 5 or 6 days of a few hours a day, with Claude.

    • lol8675309 · 2 days ago

      Who?

    • loeg · 2 days ago

      If it's only for tracking books you really liked, it's not a Good Reads replacement.

      • keane · 2 days ago

        Someone might have said similar about (Systrom's version of) Instagram: if it's only for photos, it's not a Facebook replacement.

        • mjcarden · 2 days ago

          From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.

          • nicbou · 2 days ago

            He is also a damn good writer, and it’s fine if he makes money with it. I loved his free posts so much that I bought his book, and it was also excellent.

            This website can be incredibly hostile to creatives having an income, at times.

          • neilv · 2 days ago

            If you want a non-corporate alternative to Goodreads, there's a Fediverse one, BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/

            (I don't know how many people are using BookWyrm, but Goodreads itself seems half-abandoned. Maybe most of the publisher attention is on TikTok influencing now?)

            • NathanielK · 2 days ago

              This looks rad and very user drivrn.

              I've been tracking with bibliocommons through my local library, but it has it's flaws. I can add books that any bibliocommons library has indexed, but there's no convenient way to search outside my library.

              • brandur · 2 days ago

                Thanks, this is neat. Goodreads seems to be get so little development attention these days that it's a miracle it still runs.

                Interesting choice by BookWyrm to hide review ratings by default. I like it — I always felt that on Goodreads literature that's a little more challenging to tackle is reviewed very unfairly compared to easy-to-digest-but-content-light popular books or pulp fantasy. Making the default to have users read the contents of a review instead of glancing at an aggregate number seems like the right answer.

                • KPGv2 · 2 days ago

                  I like https://hardcover.app and the team behind it is really responsive to the community

                • protocolture · 2 days ago

                  Doesnt seem to overlap with good reads at all?

                  I find goodreads sucks at book recommendations, but excluding the books that some random twitter replacement didnt read doesnt seem like its going to make it good at book recommendations either.

                  Goodreads however remains fun for keeping me accountable with my reading goals, and nothing else has replaced that.

                  DCC - Yeah this isnt great. Yeah the litrpg genre was infested from the beginning with 20booksto50K people, and then LLM people.

                  • wahnfrieden · 2 days ago

                    It’s for his paid community. If you’re in the community, then it’s not a random community and you will have shared interests - and community.

                    • protocolture · 2 days ago

                      That doesnt really make sense. If you are on twitter you are in the "community" but applying this methodology to twitter is unlikely to be a good recommendation engine for the twitter community either.

                      • tolerance · 2 days ago

                        What do you mean? "Communities" on social media platforms vary, common behavioral traits that the platform may engender not withstanding.

                        The platform Craig Mod built looks like the equivalent of getting book recommendations exclusively from your mutual follows on Twitter.

                        • protocolture · 2 days ago

                          Exactly my point. A random sampling of books that a random group thinks are good isnt a good recommendation engine.

                            • protocolture · 2 days ago

                              Atlas Shrugged being in the top 10 of hacker recommended says more than I ever could

                            • wahnfrieden · 2 days ago

                              It’s good if you are part of that community which was built around specific shared interests including specific works of writing. He’s an author of books.

                              It’s like making the point that a cookout you saw while driving past a private event venue on the other side of town is not a good solution for everybody else wanting a restaurant to eat at - so what?

                              • protocolture · 1 days ago

                                >It’s like making the point that a cookout you saw while driving past a private event venue on the other side of town is not a good solution for everybody else wanting a restaurant to eat at - so what?

                                Context here is that this is being explicitly marketed as a goodreads replacement.

                                One of the features of goodreads is... a recommendation engine.

                                Once analysed you can see that this website does not contain a recommendation engine, but its just a static list of books people on the guys twitter replacement liked.

                                Your analogy is flawed, this is like getting food recommendations based on complaints posted to the community notice board.

                                The only way this is a goodreads replacement is if your entire understanding of goodreads comes from the name.

                                Goodreads is flawed but the fix isnt to deliver it without any features.

                                • wahnfrieden · 1 days ago

                                  No, it’s marketed in the post as being explicitly for the paid community to replace their book sharing that happens on the private Twitter-like message board they have for the community.

                                  The Goodreads reference is also valid as many (like myself) use it primarily for its friend feeds. I’ve never looked at its recommendation engine. It’s just one feature, as you say.

                                  • protocolture · 1 days ago

                                    Cool so its nothing like good reads, glad we agree.

                            • protocolture · 2 days ago

                              Look at it this way.

                              I know of a small regional community that I have occasional involvement in and maintain an interest in their socials.

                              A person who started an Escape Room in that community recently posted about how much money he has lost supporting that business.

                              I explained to him that Escape Rooms are a niche but intense interest and that you need a large population size to support them.

                              He was appealing to the wider community, of 9000 people, to come in and support his business, but realistically, there's maybe 40-50 people in that community who will actually engage with an escape room. Probably less, the community skews very old.

                              A "Community" is not a monolith. The only thing you can guarantee the community has in common is whatever forged them together. For a physical community its geography. For an online community its whatever brought them together.

                              Unless "Craig Mod" built his community around a specific set of shared reading interests, theres no way in hell that its a good general book recommendation engine for the participants.

                              Goodreads/Kindle/Amazon have shot their categories to hell and are barely more effective than a keyword author search, but for all its failings thats still going to have better book discovery than a random blob of people on a random twitter clone.

                        • iamanllm · 2 days ago

                          dungeon crawler carl is a great series. never read a litrpg in my life and i probably won't again but DCC is really fun. and calling it amenable to LLM is pretty reductive in a stupid way as the book absolutely could not be written by LLM

                          • protocolture · 2 days ago

                            I personally didnt suggest DCC was written by an LLM but you only need to see its imitators to see the cheap slop targeting the area.

                            I mean the first LLMs targeted at authors were built as rpg simulators. NovelAI was founded by the AI Dungeon guys splitting off and doing their own thing. If I looked I am betting I could find community training modules to closely mimic DCC's style and they would be well supported.

                        • gnabgib · 2 days ago

                          Title: Go Knicks, A Better Goodreads, 'Cheap' Killer Films

                            • hombre_fatal · 1 days ago

                              I kinda like this guy's post with the quotes and references. It's pretty dense with interesting stuff.