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What the F is up with IMDB? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by stumu415@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just wanted to check some user reviews for a serie, now IMDB forces me to create an account. Such bullshit to read some reviews. No fucking way. Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not everything needs to be fediverse.

Anyway, TMDB and TVDB are potential rivals

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not everything needs to be fediverse.

The way things are going, I'd argue otherwise lol

[–] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Just found out one of the site runners I believe it was @nutomic@lemmy.ml is making a federated wiki, which is terrific considering how wikis work and the process of filtering out the ideological bullshit on Wikipedia itself. Less drama since there's split, more tightly-knit teams, but also consider the possibility of being caugut up in multiple wiki moderation wars simultaneously 🤔 who knows if it would increase or decrease overall moderation spaghetti

The point is, what could possibly be worse than the current wikipedia moderation? They are absolute nolifer hellions

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Yes its called Ibis: https://ibis.wiki/

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd say everything needs to be federated so one company doesn't get to be a single broker of information

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Does you argument also apply to Wikipedia and Musicbrainz?
They are both open (Musicbrainz is even public domain) and you can download the entirety of the database
Both are crowdsourced pieces of knowledge

To a lesser degree, you can also get the data of TMDB with some workarounds (example: developer.themoviedb.org)
So they arent exactly locked into their knowledge vault and can be downloaded daily just in case of a bail/bait and switch

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 points 17 hours ago

I mean yea to that too because when jimmy wales steps down eventually the next show runner might not have the same morals