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Is/will there be a movie/TV equivalent of BookWyrm, something to track and discuss what you've been watching? A quick search tells me it's been discussed and seems like something people want but it doesn't look like it's been done yet, at least not as a dedicated service. Is that right?
That is absolutely brilliant. I would love something like that. Why doesn't it exist?
I’ve thought about and talked about this too! We need this!!!
AFAIK the problem is there is no good movie database which allows free use of their data
So what? We'll create one!
Years ago the owners of GoodReads announced that Amazon had taken away their access to the Amazon book database. It was an existential threat, they said, and asked the GoodReads community to volunteer to create a new book database to replace Amazon's. Hundreds or thousands of us worked for free, donating thousands or tens of thousands of hours to the project.
And then GoodReads announced that they'd sold out to Amazon. Apparently they'd been in negotiations with those bastards the whole time they were lying to us about losing access to the database. Maybe proving that they could sucker their loyal users into donating free labor helped raise the selling price of GoodReads a little.
As for the database we created, I guess it's Amazon's now. Of course, if we create a movie database of our own, NOBODY will be able to buy it! And we can make it available for free use, if we want.
Okay, let's do this. But we need someone to create an Interface and Database
That's mostly outside of my area of expertise. I work with databases, but not from an app perspective. How can we find people with those skills? Post on Lemmy?
TMDB? Community-built database, there's an API, seems still active and reasonably up-to-date.
That sounds great!
Wikidata is under CC0 license so I imagine that'd be useful https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies
IIRC the critique was that Wikidata doesn't provide enough structured data
I thought that was the whole point of Wikidata. But I've not actually used it yet.