Moviewyrm
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A concept for an IMDb/TMDb alternative, a fork of Bookwyrm made for movies."

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 @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt 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 @tripofmice@friend.camp, 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 🤯

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • iortega@lemmy.eus
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Tommi@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      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.

  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • smallcircles@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      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.