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Do you use Goodreads or something similar like Fantastic Fiction?

The CSAM spamming happened again, and unfortunately a local user had to witness it and report it....

I’ve never used one but it struck me as odd that people would use a seperate device for smth so easily done on your phone....

A few days back, I came across a thread on Mastodon where people were sharing great opening lines of books. I pitched in with the following opening lines from Discworld:...

When posts are made on lemmy they can be federated over to any instance so long as the instance is federated with ours and the community is federated onto that instance as well. It’s awesome! But for community building sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming....

I’m French native speaker. I believe I can speak fluent English but I know want to discover English poetry. Where should I start ?

I found an account dedicated to spam posting “enlightened centrist” talking points and pundits. Their name itself is part of the advertising. They even would post the same content across multiple communities, without cross-posting. And not just political stuff, they posted the same meme about 4 times without linking them....

I can do a 13 days of horror books highlighting some horror books in !fiction if there’s any interest in that. It seems that making highlight posts made a lot of people engaged and started a lot of conversations. Thoughts? I’m willing to do like daily to weekly themed book highlights. I can even do nonfiction book highlights...

I read a bit more of the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and it’s really good so far.

In another conversation about the server literature.cafe potentially defederating from the Hexbear server, I found this comment chain by @Janvier to be a worthwhile read. He makes the case for smaller servers to defederate from many large servers, and not only Hexbear, as a way for smaller communities to grow organically. It is...

Nanowrimo is in November so I’ll make the community in prep to rally people on lemmy who might be interested in it

That’s it, nothing much....

I got a few, but mainly just stuck to the library.

As @Arthur requested, here’s a review of Time Shelter. I apologize in advance for what you are going to read....

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12924678...

Heya, I’m still here. Still working on things in the background and been quite busy. Right now the instance server needs some updates and the pictures backend is a little wonky. Gonna take the instance down for a bit presumably sometime tomorrow for some (hopefully) quick spring cleaning.

As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently “follow” their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I’m thinking about a personalized...

Including:...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4937038...

One word is busy constructing the others. It is a carpenter creating props for a play. It takes a rock and makes it a hat. Thus there is now a rock-hat. This stuff becomes real. All that is real becomes props while all that’s not becomes the play. And somewhere in the performance the words start whispering back to us a...

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/2905115...

Help! I’m looking for interesting microbloggers who focus on the literature space (especially speculative fiction) to follow. Preferably on mastodon since I can consume the rss feed of their content.