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tofu to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship

www.hughrundle.net

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I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship

www.hughrundle.net

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I delivered this talk at the Everything Open 2026 conference in Canberra

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/486150

Posting this since I am a bookwyrm fanboy but also also liked the thoughts on dev pace, “corp spirit”, stale bots and the SPA thing.

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    This shouldn’t be the case. While books appear to be present on each library (=instance), reviews etc federate between them! They refer to each other.

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      Here is an example for a famous book on two random instances:

      • https://ramblingreaders.org/book/116065/s/project-hail-mary (7 reviews)
      • https://ramblingreaders.org/book/116071/s/project-hail-mary (14 reviews)
      • https://ramblingreaders.org/book/94232/s/project-hail-mary (37 reviews)
      • https://bookwyrm.social/book/102060/s/project-hail-mary (686 reviews)
      • https://bookwyrm.social/book/733316/s/project-hail-mary (3 reviews)
      • https://bookwyrm.social/book/1018730/s/project-hail-mary (9 reviews)
      • https://bookwyrm.social/book/215201/s/project-hail-mary (24 reviews)

      I can find the 686 reviews entry on both, but not the others. And still, these all refer to the same book…

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        While they refer to the same book they are not the same editions of this book. Some are hardcover, some are paperback, some are later editions and only some of them are actual duplicates of the same book (just have a look at the different ISBNs).

        Sharing the reviews between these different editions might seem logical for some cases, but a reader might also review the actual quality of a specific edition (poor print quality, cheap paper, etc.). Even the contents of books (mostly in scientific literature) may be vastly different between two editions. So sharing the reviews is a dangerous thing to do.

        So in your case this is not due to a lack of federation but because these are actually different books and in a few cases duplicates of the same book (someone didn’t check if the book existed in the first place or was unhappy on how it was represented).

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