I think this is an excellent idea, a worthy project, and I applaud you for putting some real thinking into practical steps!
My federated X wishlist had social media, reddit-like thing, instagram-like thing, and a youtube-like thing. A federated IMDB alternative would be awesome.
Just wanted to mention that, according to GNU, Bookwyrm is nonfree because of being licensed under ACSL. I don't know the implications of this license on forks.
To be honest, I do not care. It is important to have the right license, but the value of a software should not be conditioned by license bias. It is a matter that is not strictly and directly related.
Software comes first, license comes close, but still second to it.
You might want to post a bounty on it on rysolv (or some better platform if you can find one), That might be a "stronger" or more persuasive signal then posting on social media.
I did not know it. I’ll look into it! Thanks for sharing
I think something like adding movie cataloguing functionality to https://inventaire.io could be easier...? They claim to support ActivityPub too as of now...
I don’t know… maybe having little, super effective and specific platforms is better than one where you try to include most of the features possible. That’s the awesomeness of the Fediverse! As long as there is seamless interoperability, anything goes smoothly.
seems more like a trakt alternative than imdb
It might be, but IMDb, as all Big Tech companies (it is owned by Amazon) is successfully settling on territories where before there were other smaller services, among them Trakt.
I asked them if it's possible and they said yes if you modify the back end, but I don't think they have time to maintain two projects like this. :/
If you get yourself a Python developer which isn't that crazy you could do it though.
The question is whether the project should be forked into multiple separate projects at all. An alternative would be to have a generic "Directory Platform" and have modules to make it a Book Review platform, a Movie Database, or whatever-you-wanna-collect platform with another module. The modules would mostly be templates and data structures + user interface widgets to present them nicely.
Sure, but that would be the case if it was designed like that from the ground up, but BookWyrm's developer didn't and it's understandable, so now you either fork it and make it like that or fork it and make it work specifically for whatever you want to keep track of.
Yes, true. I asked the question in a more general sense on the fedi: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech/107540889998564900
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