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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 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.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Really bummed me out when I learned about that

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's not FOSS but looks better than imdb

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

@krash I would love that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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