Hi there!
I looked up the list you have going, and I think I didn’t see the following suggestions there (but I might be wrong, I have ADHD and am unmedicated lol):
- LibraryThing: despite having an “automatic” suggestions list, they also have a “readers suggestions” featured in your home page. It’s more focused in calatoguing personal libraries and reviews, though you can add people. The social network aspect is secondary.
- Listography: desktop-only social “network” where you don’t see who follow you or how many followers you have, you only see the list of accounts you follow. Made for, well, making lists. I also use as a way of sharing cool bookmarks.
- StoryGraph: It’s Goodreads without Amazon’s algorithm, it has a paid version but the free one works just fine.
- Bookshelf.town: a minimalistic, indie book tracking website where you can add your friends too.
Also, my other suggestion would be “simplifying” the text for the lay person, maybe have a specific page to direct those who “barely know how to open a browser”. The RSS section has a lot of technical words that can intimidate your average Joe.
I say this bc I think of the people around me who, to be quite frank, only access the internet via their phones. For them, bookmarking for example, is virtually impossible (over 80% of the people in my country use Android, not Apple, so Safari is kinda out of the question), and computer literacy is, well, zero.
I know a guide like this can just go so far, and I think the job you are doing in quite amazing, but it’s this kind of disparate access that bums me out when we talk about letting go of social media platforms.
Anyways, I’d also like to volunteer to translate the guide to Brazilian Portuguese down the road, if you think that’d be interesting for the project. Well, maybe do a localized translation, bc some stuff really doesn’t apply to our reality and/or only works for English speakers.
Toodles!