What’s wrong?

Tumblr on fediverse by default will increase variation of community in fediverse. Especially, fediverse right now is still mainly filled with American or European related topics.

No support for user post though…

That means nothing to federate.

That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.

The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.

• LibRate (https://codeberg.org/mjh/LibRate), implement ActivityPub. Development in halt.
• Kitsu (https://github.com/hummingbird-me), specialized for anime and manga database. Not implementing ActivityPub sadly.
• Visual Novel Database (VNDB, https://vndb.org/) has open source their site: https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/vndb While its system is mainly focused for visual novel (like heavy tagging and character database), it has the most advance release version compared to any other kind of database. Might be useful for making version database of movies, books, or any other media. No decentralization.
• AniList (https://anilist.co/), anime and manga only with heavy social features. Has promise to open source their project. No ActivityPub yet, but has possibility.

NeoDB has feature for exporting data from external database.

Here’s the list:

• IMDB
• The Movie Database
• Douban (Chinese film, books, music, recent events, and activities tracker)
• Google Books
• Discogs
• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Steam
• IGDB
• Bangumi (Chinese animation, comic, games, live action, and music database/tracker)
• Board Game Geek
• Archive of Our Own
• any RSS link to a podcast

Just for unique info:

NeoDB is primarily a Bangumi-clone. Bangumi (https://bangumi.tv/) is Chinese multimedia tracker, with five categorization: animation, comics, games, music, and live action.

Their community is really dedicated to maintain the most correct information, even having unique metadata that English database does not have them, like manga magazine serialization with exact volume and date.

Edit: In the future, fediverse should have solution for universal metadata sharing for media database. Avoiding potential clashes and empower user to choose their preference (which most of mainstream DB simply does not)

For example, Japanese romanization system. Right now, there’s two competing used in English database. IMDB, IGDB etc use Hepburn-romanization MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates, VNDB use system inspired by Nihon-shiki. Both format should be supported to avoid clash. Language display for multi-region system should be implemented as well. e.g.:

• English Asia user might want to see Detective Conan as official title
• English North America user might want to see Case Closed as official title.