Comment by 🚀 clseibold
Just chiming in to say that the entire point of the idea was that you can look at book information (description, publisher, release date, title, # of pages) from Gemini. And then you post reviews for it if you want. But creating a cli app where all the book information is local doesn't make any of the book information available in Gemini.
I don't care about federation as much as other people in this thread, but it's certainly a nice feature. It's just not trivial.
But if you are not going to expose book information to Gemini, then there's no point in making the dang app. Like, that's the ENTIRE point of using Goodreads - to view and explore books you might want to read.
A capsule that doesn't expose book information to Gemini, an app that's only book reviews, does not interest me, so I will never use it, personally. And that's because you can't expect me to look at JUST reviews to explore books I might want to read, lmao.
You also need the book information, or at least some identifier of a book, stored on the server to group reviews about the same book. So like, it's not just bad user interface to exclude this, it's impractical.
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2025-07-18 · 10 months ago
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🐙 norayr · 2025-08-02 at 01:46:
i am thinking to install tootik at least just for the lists feature:
lemmy is too big/complex/rust/and i never managed to build it
guppe is python
tootik is go!
and people from mastodon etc can comment and i guess open discussions on the lists.
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— bbs.geminispace.org/u/clseibold/29821
"Goodreads for Gemini" — Inspired by a comment in u/clseibold's thread: Here's a free idea for an enterprising developer with way too much time on their hands: Make Bookwyrm for Gemini. Bookwyrm is a federated (i.e. connected to the Fediverse) alternative to Goodreads that lets you build reading lists and write reviews for books. Making something like this would not only fit nicely with the overall Gemini...
💬 13 comments · 4 likes · 2025-07-17 · 10 months ago · #Fediverse