Another vote for NeoDB. It’s been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.
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mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
After Trakt changed to a subscription, I’ve went with NeoDB. This is a federated network, so you can also host it yourself if you like. All entries there can be published into the Fediverse, too. It tracks movies, shows, books, and games. And it automatically imports from IMDb, TheMovieDB, Amazon, Steam, and many more. There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.
There’s also eggplant.place which is the development build of NeoDB and might be unstable but has more English content.
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73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
tatoko556@reddthat.com 2 days ago
This seems great, but I don’t fully understand how it works with the Fediverse. Instead of everything being local, can I now share what I’ve watched with others and see their comments as well?
mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yes, whenever you mark a movie or an episode as “to watch”, “watching” or “watched”, this gets published like a Mastodon post. You also have the option to automatically retoot this from your main Mastodon account. Others can follow you from Mastodon and react to your events. (For some reason, they don’t properly show up here, though.) And, of course, it all shows up for other users on NeoDB.
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
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octobob@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Why is damn near everything in Chinese?
mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
To quote myself:
The author of the app is Chinese (but speaks English, too).
The actors get imported upon the very first import of a movie/show. And when a movie is imported from Douban first, the actors will all show up with their Chinese transliterations. If you import a new movie from TheMovieDB, they’ll show up with their English names. But as mentioned above, you can edit the names - which is what I usually do for US-movies.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It may be “easy” to edit the names, but unless it’s a one-time universal toggle, that’d be a dealbreaker to me.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
You can always join one of the mainly English instances like Eggplant.place or ReviewDB or host your own. But as long as the majority of NeoDB.social users are Chinese, the dominant language there won’t change.
OTOH it’s easy to use the API - so, instead of doing it manually, I’m tempted to write a small tool that you can throw a link to a movie or show at and it’ll change all Chinese actor names to their English counterparts.