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?

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

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@hitagi @krash

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

@nobloat@lemmy.ml
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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
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Whoops! I missed a letter. But yes that’s the one.

@quellik@lemmy.ml
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Just checked out LibreMD on your suggestion, it’s awesome!

Brian Bufalo
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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

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.

What’s wrong with IMDB?

@MMNT@lemmy.ml
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It’s owned by Amazon.

Really bummed me out when I learned about that

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

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It’s not FOSS but looks better than imdb

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

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

Extinction Studies
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@krash I would love that.

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

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

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

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