We have bookwyrm.social, which does an excellent job at replacing the need for goodreads (which is owned by Amazon). But is there an alternative to imdb.com?

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TheMovieDB and Open Movie Database are popular alternatives but not FOSS IIRC. LibreMD is a FOSS front end for IMDB.

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@hitagi @krash

Thanks for sharing, it’s actually Libremdb: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb

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I think recently IMDB went full evil and asking you to sign up to see episodes list of a show. This affects the front end and it can’t access episode lists. I just tried it with Doctor Who

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Whoops! I missed a letter. But yes that’s the one.

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Just checked out LibreMD on your suggestion, it’s awesome!

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I think @caseyliss@mastodon.social of ATP fame is working on an iOS app for TMDB. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidental-tech-podcast/id617416468?i=1000607913378

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IMO it would fit well in the *brainz family (see musicbrainz), and there has been discussion about it, but nobody has taken the initiative to actually start it yet.

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What’s wrong with IMDB?

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It’s owned by Amazon.

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FML

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Really bummed me out when I learned about that

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Off topic, but I feel pretty old. I used to regularly download the entire IMDB and browse on my Amiga.

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Thanks for the nostalgia. Haven’t seen the LHA file format in the wild for years!

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@krash I would love that.

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