Gonna take the whole "Don't scab on prime day" moment to promote one of my favourite alternatives to an amazon product.
The Movie Database is a free community-run alternative to IMDB, unlike amazon's shitty website, TMDB isn't full to bursting with ads, trackers and sluggish JavaScript, and provides an excellent platform for folk to catalogue information about their favorite films without being marketed to.
Please support it, not just on prime day, but any time you need info on a film. Keep information free.
@GreenandBlack thanks! I used to use it when using #Kodi and really liked it, but never thought to actually switch away from IMDb (whose UX has gone much downhill over the years, apart from all the other Amazon issues).
#TMDB still seems proprietary though (glancing at the terms of use, it's free only for personal use), I wonder if there's a Wikipedia like alternative where the data is under some open data license?
@michel_slm oh aye, it's still proprietary which ain't great (I might make a forum post at some point to suggest they make it FOSS), but unlike IMDB it doesn't lock some of its services behind a paywall
There is an Open Source Database, but it's not as accessible as either TMDB or IMDB https://www.omdbapi.com/
@michel_slm @GreenandBlack what about #dbpedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia I'm also interested in how it could be integrated into Mastodon