I love the Fediverse and I love cinema 🍿, I don’t think I am the only one…
I am surprised nobody has realized a Fediverse software for movies, yet!
I am tired of IMDb, and any other alternative is centralized, proprietary software.
What I think could be done is to develop a fork of @[email protected] with the same features, but some key differences that make it the go-to solution for tracking movies you want to watch and that you watched, as well as sharing your thoughts with your friends. I already emailed @[email protected], Bookwyrm’s creator and main maintainer, about this possibility.
I am keeping notes concerning this idea in the link for the post.
Unfortunately, even though I am a Fediverse enthusiast and I cannot stop talking about it with everybody, I am no developer and I cannot practically start working on this, also because my time is too limited to work on such a software. Nevertheless, I hope writing this post could inspire somebody to code something and start a Fediverse platform for movies! 😍
Of course I am available for anything else concerning the project: website creation, marketing, bug testing and community moderation, etc.
Thanks a lot for your time!
Happy holidays,
Tommi 🤯
Just wanted to mention that, according to GNU, Bookwyrm is nonfree because of being licensed under ACSL. I don’t know the implications of this license on forks.
To be honest, I do not care. It is important to have the right license, but the value of a software should not be conditioned by license bias. It is a matter that is not strictly and directly related.
Software comes first, license comes close, but still second to it.
I think this is an excellent idea, a worthy project, and I applaud you for putting some real thinking into practical steps!
My federated X wishlist had social media, reddit-like thing, instagram-like thing, and a youtube-like thing. A federated IMDB alternative would be awesome.
I think something like adding movie cataloguing functionality to https://inventaire.io/ could be easier…? They claim to support ActivityPub too as of now…
I don’t know… maybe having little, super effective and specific platforms is better than one where you try to include most of the features possible. That’s the awesomeness of the Fediverse! As long as there is seamless interoperability, anything goes smoothly.
I asked them if it’s possible and they said yes if you modify the back end, but I don’t think they have time to maintain two projects like this. :/
If you get yourself a Python developer which isn’t that crazy you could do it though.
The question is whether the project should be forked into multiple separate projects at all. An alternative would be to have a generic “Directory Platform” and have modules to make it a Book Review platform, a Movie Database, or whatever-you-wanna-collect platform with another module. The modules would mostly be templates and data structures + user interface widgets to present them nicely.
Sure, but that would be the case if it was designed like that from the ground up, but BookWyrm’s developer didn’t and it’s understandable, so now you either fork it and make it like that or fork it and make it work specifically for whatever you want to keep track of.
Yes, true. I asked the question in a more general sense on the fedi: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech/107540889998564900
You might want to post a bounty on it on rysolv (or some better platform if you can find one), That might be a “stronger” or more persuasive signal then posting on social media.
I did not know it. I’ll look into it! Thanks for sharing
seems more like a trakt alternative than imdb
It might be, but IMDb, as all Big Tech companies (it is owned by Amazon) is successfully settling on territories where before there were other smaller services, among them Trakt.
