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 before the inevitable enshittification begins. I did a cursory search and found nothing promising, but figured the braintrust here might know something I don’t!
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:
- The idea has been floating around for a few years now but has, so far failed to get traction.
- The developers of BookWyrm reckon that it would be easy enough to fork their software for other uses (Discogs comes up quite a bit too) but they don’t have the time to do it.
- It seems like the best approach, the one that would avoid reinventing the wheel each time, is one that creates a generic system (GeneralWyrm) that could then more easily be modified for other uses -
FilmWyrmedit: ScreenWyrm (as it should combine TV and film), Disclaim, ComicsWyrm (I still miss comicbookdb), ActionFigureWyrm, etc.
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:
- ability to import lists from IMDb and Trakt (Trakt allows you to import from IMDb so they are presumably compatible).
- integration with Kodi and Jellyfin to help you keep a track of what you have watched (Trakt currently integrates with Kodi very nicely so it would seem straightforward to use something similar).
