Submitted 1 year ago by kandykarter@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
With today’s news of Letterboxd being acquired by an investment company, I got to wondering if I should start weaning my movie obsession off of there and onto something more open. I did a cursory search and found nothing promising, but figured the braintrust here might know something I don’t!
Something like Trakt.tv to track movies and shows too
I want this so much. And I want apps like Plex to be able to read from it and update my watch progress.
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while !! There’s some self hosted solutions alternatives for trakt, but I don’t want the hassle… A fedi letterbox like would be really amazing! (Imagine integrating it with Jellyfin to rate your films after watching, sharing those reviews and film lists on mastodon, pixelfed and Lemmy, a dream would come true)
Self hosted trakt? That’s very intriguing to me, please tell me you’ve got a name for me to look up!
The ones I know:
Flox - https://github.com/devfake/flox
MediaTracker - https://github.com/bonukai/MediaTracker
iwatched - https://github.com/hakanersu/iwatched
I think the closest you’ll get to an “open” platform right now is the community-maintained www.themoviedb.org. Their API is also free for non-commercial use.
What does letterboxd do?
Essentially GoodReads/BookWyrm but for movies instead of books.
I’m also really interested in something like this. 👀
That’d be really nice maybe someone could fork Bookwyrm for this
Is that like criticker.com ? I adore that website, it gives me great recommendations and drilling down into their film database with filters is great.
If you like it, they gave a thing to accept donations to keep it running too :-)
Maybe that new application Ticketbooth with TMDB integration and a Trakt like connection would work. I would love that.
oh ffs, I’d only just found out about letterboxd and now it’s just a matter of time until it’s ruined by greed.
This is my dream app.
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The suggestion of a Fediverse IMDb/Trakt/letterboxd comes up about once a month on here. This is my last comment on it and you can follow the links back to previous discussions but to summarise:
I’m still enthusiastic about it as I want to move my stuff off IMDb (lists, ratings, etc) but the only viable home is really Trakt at the moment and who knows when that will get bought up and I have to move again. A better option would be to wait for a Fediverse alternative and make that my ultimate home. Perhaps this time around the project will get the momentum it needs. 🤞🤞
Features on top of the standard add, review and rate films that I’d like to see:
Deebster@programming.dev 1 year ago
Do we know if the BookWyrm source code is of a good quality? I know developers always prefer starting from scratch, but sometimes it is actually the best idea.
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I suppose everyone’s definition of good quality code differs but you have a point about starting from scratch and if the idea was to create a more general/modular then it might make sense.
All I can say is take a look, they’ve had to solve a lot of problems most variations would also need to solve but, even starting from scratch, the solutions could be brought over.