• HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he’s legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who’s a hilarious potty mouth :D

      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        I haven’t watched a Numberphile video in a while, probably not since the lockdowns. I have to say, James Grime doesn’t give that impression at all. Something about James “singing banana” Grime being a hilarious potty mouth is in itself very funny to me.

      • Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one
        1·
        2 months ago

        I actually love that James swears like a soldier. Don’t know why exactly.

        Thinking about it, I would be equally happy to learn Matt swears and James doesn’t. Must be something about the ‘insider’ information!

  • Albbi@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 months ago

    Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I’ll definitely make a switch.

      • Cossty@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Movies: Letterboxd

        TV Shows: Serializd

        For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don’t have “profile” pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.

        Hardcover looks interesting, it’s a bit like letterboxd, that’s why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.

        • Grimm@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I used to use Hardcover but stopped after realizing they use AI-generated art on their platform.

        • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I love letterbox, but not really a replacement for IMDB.

          I’ve been using tv time to track tv shows, but haven’t really been a fan. Definitely going to check out serializd.

      • mac@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’ve used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the “seen in” section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services

  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Using ephebophile Drake’s Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫

    Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌

    • Manmoth@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 months ago

      I never thought about a reading tracker but immediately went to searching for a selfhosted option when I read this post. Thanks for saving me the time!

  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I don’t really use Goodreads much but BookWyrm looks good so I’ve just switched over.

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Adding I use bookwyrm because it’s federated and uses activitypub so I can just boost my reviews from mastodon if I want to share them there.

      • pelley@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah I just moved to BookWyrm, but was checking out StoryGraph today as well. Looks interesting, but I’ll probably stick to BookWyrm if StroryGraph isn’t federated.

    • pohart@programming.dev
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’ve stopped using goodreads, but haven’t switched to bookwyrm yet. I’m using the lack of import from goodreads as an excuse to keep procrastinating.

      • other_cat@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh, sick! How? I’d love to start sharing them to Lemmy and getting conversations going.

        • pseudo@jlai.lu
          1·
          2 months ago

          Whenever you write something public on Bookwyrm just add the mention of the community in the following format @communityname@instance

          Check !cueillette@jlai.lu, I did a few experiment there. Content is in french but the format for sharing a book page, or a review should be the same whatever the language.

          Also, you can post your review on !testfediverse@jlai.lu to experiment without spamming anyone.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Goodreads is like Yelp for books.

    Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don’t even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.

    I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn’t have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it’ll affect sales.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.

    You know, it’s actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.

    Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it’s like christmas!

  • r.EndTimes@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Do any also track comics? I feel like I have a better chance tracking all ive read in one place pirating them all and placing them there than any of these apps, they are always missing something