Just a general point I've been thinking about lately, I suppose?

Other "bookish" social media platforms - ones with a dedicated purpose, as in discussing books and sharing reviews - have very quickly devolved into spammy Twitter clones. Even if they don't have repost options and similar literal functionality, they seem to pretty quickly stop being about books and start being more like every other general-purpose social media platform.

For people who have politely expressed their opinion (just in OP posts on their own profile, not commenting on anyone else's) just to get dog-piled about how "if you don't like it then scroll" and "the book community is for everyone" it becomes pretty frustrating. It gets to the point that its not fun to use the app. Your pet is adorable, but in this tagged post you've said nothing about the book - the book isn't even in the photo. I've seen this same blurry, recycled screenshot of a meme from Tumblr or Twitter 26 times this week. The app isn't designed in a way that allows anyone to "go viral" so your post that's encouraging people to click the like button and make comments so you have greater "reach" isn't doing anything but prompting more people to copy you and jam up the feed with spam. I'm so happy for you that you had this amazing thing happen, but I'm not sure your personal life update is really appropriate to post when it's got nothing to do with the platform or the book you tagged.

While not every post here prompts an in-depth discussion, what's stayed pretty consistent is that the posts are still about books and about anyone's thoughts while they're reading. I don't use the discussion features frequently for any number of personal reasons, but it's just really relaxing and refreshing to come here to a book discussion app/site that is actually still about books and see what people are thinking and feeling and actually find new things to read.