So I created a new Bookwyrm account yesterday on their flagship instance. The problems I had a few months ago are still present:
- Existing book data is not properly maintained (though everyone can contribute so I simply updated them)
- Linking books to have multple editions is only possible if they share a common ISBN. No arbritary linking is currently possible.
- Authors often exists multiple times without an option to link them.
- Though there is a reading goal section and the service very much revolves around that, there are no fancy statistics about overall progress, genre preferences etc.
What is great though is that you can just follow someone from your Mastodon accounts and get all of the user's updates and reviews in your timeline.
Overall, it is a lot of work if you want to use it in a satisfactory way. However, if you put in the effort, you may actually have cleaner data in your reading history that goodreads or storygraph allows for.