It turns out that on #Bookwyrm, anyone's book edits federate to other instances without instance admins knowing about it. This is particularly bad because I often find that my created books are modified on my shelf, so I finish reading a paperback, but my yearly read at the end of the year contains a coverless audio book, which has no series or series number added. This is because people are lazy and they just modify an existing edition, rather than adding a new one. Theoretically, any edit can come from any instance.

If you use Bookwyrm, please thumb up this issue, where I suggest adding options to control book federation https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/2841

Add options to control federating book data · Issue #2841 · bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

I often find that users of other instances edit existing book data to match what they've read, e.g. change a paperback book to an audio book, rather than creating a new edition. It can also happen ...

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