[winsbe01]

Great read! I also hadn't heard of TheStoryGraph before, so double points.

I'm also very interested in owning my own data (particularly when it comes to things like book lists) and I'm thinking about how to incorporate something like ActivityPub into my CLI book-list application. I'd love to live in a world with an indieweb version of g*dreads.

[soapdog]

I'm active in the Secure Scuttlebutt community, which is a decentralization platform that some people from Activity Streams communities might also enjoy. One of the clients has a book review feature which is great and I wish was incorporated by more clients. Something similar to that could work well as a small ActivityPub app.

[winsbe01]

Very interesting. Which client has the book review feature?

I haven't yet dipped my toes into Secure Scuttlebutt -- I joined a Mastodon instance once upon a time, but it didn't hold my attention too well. I've always associated Secure Scuttlebutt with a similar (albeit more distributed) micro-blogging thing, but that's probably my own ignorance speaking (nothing in the protocol seems to limit interactions to this, based on a quick skim).

Nothing against micro-blogging in particular, I just personally find the signal-to-noise ratio suboptimal (though maybe I'm just on the wrong networks, following the wrong people!). I'd love to build something into my book-tracking app so I could, like, share a list of books I have on my shelf that I would be willing to lend to people, or a list of books I'm interesting in reading that I could borrow from people, or books for trade, or just reviews (I've been doing a bit of pipe dreaming lately). I'm gonna dig a bit more into the Secure Scuttlebutt and ActivityPub protocols to see if this is something that could feasibly be done.

[soapdog]

check out https://ssb.nz for more scuttlebutt info. A client called Patchbay has the book feature.