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A federated or FOSS variant of IMDB? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years 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 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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 2 years ago (2 children)

@hitagi @krash

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

[–] nobloat@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] quellik@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] bmbufalo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

What's wrong with IMDB?

[–] MMNT@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's owned by Amazon.

[–] burndown@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FML

[–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really bummed me out when I learned about that

[–] burndown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] copylefty@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It's not FOSS but looks better than imdb

[–] panda@wayfarershaven.eu 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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

[–] aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social 4 points 2 years ago

@krash I would love that.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

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