Well maybe once there is a truly giant instance set up, but I think it would be better to curate considering the state of publishing lmao? 95% of new books = slop

Sure but think of those as subsections within a small bookstore. You could make them curated lists of fiction subgenres, or explorations of specific historical periods or authors. I think the detail & specificity gives it an edge over just browsing Goodreads with https://libredirect.io/ or Internet Archive or Anna’s etcetera

Use the same logic we do for the rest of the fediverse. You’re not making “the world’s bookstore” you’re making a collection of books that can’t be found elsewhere. I think it can be useful for people with particular literary or historical tastes

If you spin up your own Nitter instance, you can follow him via RSS. That seems completely within the technical expertise of Lemmitors. Also, you can use a Invidious RSS feed as public instances often still allow that, since Youtube is also a Nazi bar like the entirety of western social media. By posting this here I am making it easier for people to avoid browsing either website. Weird to pick a fight over Twitter on the least-Nazi account you can find in it anywhere lol

One of the highest-quality accounts remaining on Xitter, one of the ten good podcasters, you must all follow immediately.

https://xcancel.com/urorientalist

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCdOn41-X_riUeCB1uWVLrJA

XMPP, but also Delta Chat! The Webxdc apps for Delta work in XMPP client Cheogram despite there being no cross-compatibility between the networks. It can access ordinary email servers so long as they were not set up maliciously (Apple, M$, Gmail, etc). It can do a couple things XMPP cannot, but it’s not suitable for anyone outside close friends and family. I basically only use it for email, automation, and other personal matters. XMPP is for general use and can replace Discord. The Movim project looks very cool they have a community here also join their XMPP chat. Cheogram services can connect to the regular phone network.