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by morisy 1067 days ago
It’s got a very ideologically-driven focus, including an anti-capital source license:

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...

I think the focus on federation is to encourage small, decentralized and communally operated sites that play well with the broader fediverse. I can see that working well for a lot of book communities!

Also, spent a bit of time a few weeks ago and it already seemed to have the nicest UX of the open social book services, at least that I could see (would love recs - mostly interested in a personal tracker).
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jeroenhd 1067 days ago
Well, that's a license I've never seen before! This makes it entirely unpractical for any company to host a server, which is an... interesting approach.

I'm not sure why the police or military wouldn't be allowed to host a book reading website, though. I guess this was written as some kind of anti-government protest.

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thebooktocome 1067 days ago
> I'm not sure why the police or military wouldn't be allowed to host a book reading website, though.

Many religions have an injunction against killing or otherwise contributing to the harm of sentient beings.

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