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With IMDB forces users to sign-in to see reviews, what legitimate alternatives are there? Particularly FOSS.
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comrademiao piefed.social comrademiao@piefed.social
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silly_goose lemmy.today silly_goose@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-25
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Neodb is part of the fediverse. The same family as lemmy, piefed, and mastodon etc.

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remon ani.social remon@ani.social
Joined: 2024-09-25
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themoviedb.org

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𝜯𝐞𝐑 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐀𝐒 lemmy.world TehBamski@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-23
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letterboxd.com

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nightm4re feddit.org nightm4re@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
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Neodb is part of the fediverse. The same family as lemmy, piefed, and mastodon etc.

If I may suggest a very active instance, eggplant is cool:
https://eggplant.place/

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BruisedMoose piefed.social BruisedMoose@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-11-10
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If I may suggest a very active instance, eggplant is cool: https://eggplant.place/

Sign up with a fedi account was nice and smooth. I got a little nervous about this option when I marked a book "read":

But then I scrolled over and it's "Mentioned Only" πŸ˜„

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nightm4re feddit.org nightm4re@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
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Sign up with a fedi account was nice and smooth. I got a little nervous about this option when I marked a book "read": But then I scrolled over and it's "Mentioned Only" πŸ˜„

Lol πŸ˜†

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inari piefed.zip inari@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-02-07
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Why not Rotten Tomatoes?

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Zorque lemmy.world Zorque@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-13
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You guys use IMBD for reviews?

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Onomatopoeia lemmy.cafe Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2025-01-02
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You guys use IMBD for reviews?

Meh, reading conflicting reviews can give a sense of a film

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everett lemmy.ml everett@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-09-01
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letterboxd.com

You can find the occasional decent review there, but it's mostly people trying to be funny.

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comrademiao piefed.social comrademiao@piefed.social
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You guys use IMBD for reviews?

why wouldn't I's guys? it has reviews and tells me where I can watch it.

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comrademiao piefed.social comrademiao@piefed.social
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Why not Rotten Tomatoes?

I find the imdb rating to be closer to reality for western media.

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comrademiao piefed.social comrademiao@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-03-09
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Neodb is part of the fediverse. The same family as lemmy, piefed, and mastodon etc.

Are reviews federated between servers? Some servers have no reviews and some are solely in Chinese. It seems there is no federation and no auto translate?

Otherwise the main instance seems to have a ton of reviews though if you don’t read Chinese you’re out of luck.

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Zorque lemmy.world Zorque@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-13
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why wouldn't I's guys? it has reviews and tells me where I can watch it.

I suppose, I guess I just dont use general reviews submitted to a site to get an idea of what a movie or show is like. I just never thought of any as worthwhile (to affect my opinions at least). IMDB is just what this post is about.

No shade meant, at least after the fact! πŸ˜…

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hossein lemmy.sdf.org hossein@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2025-02-17
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themoviedb.org

Came here to say this.

You can use ShowCase on F-Droid to use it on mobile too.

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eggplant.place admin eggplant.place aubergine@eggplant.place
Joined: 2023-12-02
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Are reviews federated between servers? Some servers have no reviews and some are solely in Chinese. It seems there is no federation and no auto translate? Otherwise the main instance seems to have a ton of reviews though if you don’t read Chinese you’re out of luck.

@comrademiao reviews are federated.and you can see a translate button once logged in.

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