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A federated or FOSS variant of IMDB? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by krash@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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We have bookwyrm.social, which does an excellent job at replacing the need for goodreads (which is owned by Amazon). But is there an alternative to imdb.com?

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[-] hitagi@ani.social 37 points 11 months ago

TheMovieDB and Open Movie Database are popular alternatives but not FOSS IIRC. LibreMD is a FOSS front end for IMDB.

[-] tuts007@mastodon.social 9 points 11 months ago

@hitagi @krash

Thanks for sharing, it's actually Libremdb: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb

[-] nobloat@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I think recently IMDB went full evil and asking you to sign up to see episodes list of a show. This affects the front end and it can't access episode lists. I just tried it with Doctor Who

[-] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago

Whoops! I missed a letter. But yes that's the one.

[-] quellik@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Just checked out LibreMD on your suggestion, it’s awesome!

[-] bmbufalo@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I think @caseyliss@mastodon.social of ATP fame is working on an iOS app for TMDB. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidental-tech-podcast/id617416468?i=1000607913378

[-] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

IMO it would fit well in the *brainz family (see musicbrainz), and there has been discussion about it, but nobody has taken the initiative to actually start it yet.

[-] burndown@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

What's wrong with IMDB?

[-] MMNT@lemmy.ml 37 points 11 months ago

It's owned by Amazon.

[-] burndown@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

FML

[-] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 5 points 11 months ago

Really bummed me out when I learned about that

[-] burndown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, such a great resource. Maybe TheMovieDB is close? Not sure who owns that.

[-] copylefty@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

It's not FOSS but looks better than imdb

[-] panda@wayfarershaven.eu 9 points 11 months ago

Off topic, but I feel pretty old. I used to regularly download the entire IMDB and browse on my Amiga.

[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the nostalgia. Haven't seen the LHA file format in the wild for years!

[-] aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social 5 points 11 months ago

@krash I would love that.

[-] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

In a similar vein, I would love to see a fediverse Letterbox.

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

A generic review website might be better (something like metacritic) that can also review games and software.

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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