I was disappointed to learn there was no fediverse Tmbd/Imdb alternative. This looks like it has the potential to become that, among many things
The IMDb was open until someone just grabbed the whole thing and turned it into a website.
Just for unique info:
NeoDB is primarily a Bangumi-clone. Bangumi (https://bangumi.tv/) is Chinese multimedia tracker, with five categorization: animation, comics, games, music, and live action.
Their community is really dedicated to maintain the most correct information, even having unique metadata that English database does not have them, like manga magazine serialization with exact volume and date.
Edit: In the future, fediverse should have solution for universal metadata sharing for media database. Avoiding potential clashes and empower user to choose their preference (which most of mainstream DB simply does not)
For example, Japanese romanization system. Right now, there’s two competing used in English database. IMDB, IGDB etc use Hepburn-romanization MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates, VNDB use system inspired by Nihon-shiki. Both format should be supported to avoid clash. Language display for multi-region system should be implemented as well. e.g.:
- English Asia user might want to see Detective Conan as official title
- English North America user might want to see Case Closed as official title.
Here’s hoping this becomes a proper english version with the same dedication as the original. Think a lot of people could appreciate something like this.
Thanks for sharing this
I’ve been craving something like this as an alternative to Trakt since their latest enshittification. Are there other alternatives? Do they share protocols and whatnot like lemmy, kbin, Mastodon etc?
- LibRate (https://codeberg.org/mjh/LibRate), implement ActivityPub. Development in halt.
- Kitsu (https://github.com/hummingbird-me), specialized for anime and manga database. Not implementing ActivityPub sadly.
- Visual Novel Database (VNDB, https://vndb.org/) has open source their site: https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/vndb While its system is mainly focused for visual novel (like heavy tagging and character database), it has the most advance release version compared to any other kind of database. Might be useful for making version database of movies, books, or any other media. No decentralization.
- AniList (https://anilist.co/), anime and manga only with heavy social features. Has promise to open source their project. No ActivityPub yet, but has possibility.
It’s really nice! Great UI, not particularly buggy, feels great on the user end. Honestly pretty darn polished for a fediverse platform I’d never heard of until like a week ago. Also, the flagship instance (where I’m at) seems to be mostly reviews in Chinese, and it’s always nice to see parts of the fediverse that aren’t dominated by English. I am somewhat confused by the difference between a comment and a review, since both terms are used but everything seems to wind up in the same place? That said, I also haven’t tried very hard to figure it out either.
That’s cool! Wonder if we can host our own instance? I would love to review those plus drinks and more
Beers and other such drinks would be awesome! Beer.social sounds great (or something like it)
Glad you agree :)
How does this compare to Bookwyrm, or say Trakt?
Having used BookWyrm and NeoDB, it’s definitely very comparable to GoodReads vs IMDB, at least in terms of interface/user experience/aesthetics/etc. BookWyrm being specifically for books, it has a ton of fields that wouldn’t be applicable to anything else, i.e. “publisher”, " ISBN". It can pull data automatically from some outside book databases. NeoDB seems able to do that same thing, except for any kind of media. Not sure where all they’re pulling the data from. They also seem to have fields for just about anything, from tracklist to director to author.
NeoDB has feature for exporting data from external database.
Here’s the list:
- IMDB
- The Movie Database
- Douban (Chinese film, books, music, recent events, and activities tracker)
- Google Books
- Discogs
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Bandcamp
- Steam
- IGDB
- Bangumi (Chinese animation, comic, games, live action, and music database/tracker)
- Board Game Geek
- Archive of Our Own
- any RSS link to a podcast
I love bookwyrm. Great stack and good people.
