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I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AFAIK the problem is there is no good movie database which allows free use of their data

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, let's do this. But we need someone to create an Interface and Database

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TMDB? Community-built database, there's an API, seems still active and reasonably up-to-date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikidata is under CC0 license so I imagine that'd be useful https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC the critique was that Wikidata doesn't provide enough structured data

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought that was the whole point of Wikidata. But I've not actually used it yet.