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I've previously written about the idiosyncrasies of IndieWeb bookmarks, and how I consider them to be qualitatively different from other IndieWeb posts. The differences boil down to my relationship with them. For me, they are primarily a collection of references, not a way I interact with the world. Unlike notes or articles, sharing them isn't a priority; I don't particularly care about shouting my bookmarks from the digital soapbox that is my blog.

Other people obviously differ here, and I'm vaguely aware of the notion of social bookmarking, and now defunct services like delicious, but that's just not how I use them. My bookmark posts always felt a bit out of place on my website, much more subject to whims of deletion and reorganization than other forms of content.

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I joined Goodreads in 2012, at roughly the same time I joined Twitter, in what might be called a more innocent age of social networking. The idea of a social network for book readers appealed to me at the time.

Fast forward to 2025, and the world looks different. Twitter/X has turned into a hellscape run by a super villain, and Goodreads, though not quite a hellscape, is slow, dated and run by a company with dubious ethics.

I ended up deactivating my Twitter account - not that difficult given that I never really gained a following. As it turns out, my use of Goodreads as a social network never really took off either - I don't think my friend list ever exceeded 20 people. I used it much more as a log of my reading habits, a record of every book I ever read or wanted to read. That made it easier to think about finding a replacement.

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