Features
NeoDB has various features, and you may image it as a mix of Mastodon, Goodreads, Letterboxd, RateYourMusic, Podchaser, and more.
Public catalog
- a shared catalog of books/movies/tv shows/music album/games/podcasts/performances
- search or create catalog items in each category
- one click create item with links to 3rd party sites:
- Goodreads
- IMDB
- The Movie Database
- Douban
- Google Books
- Discogs
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Bandcamp
- Steam
- IGDB
- Bangumi
- Board Game Geek
- any RSS link to a podcast
- ...full list
Personal collections
- mark an item as wishlist/in progress/complete/dropped
- rate and write reviews for an item
- write notes for an item with progress (e.g. reading notes at page 42)
- create tags for an item, either privately or publicly
- create and share list of items
- tracking progress of a list (e.g. personal reading challenges)
- Import and export full user data archive
- import list or archives from some 3rd party sites:
- Goodreads reading list
- Letterboxd watch list
- Douban archive (via Doufen)
Social
- view home feed with friends' activities
- every activity can be set as viewable to self/follower-only/public
- eligible items, e.g. podcasts and albums, are playable in feed
- login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph
- supported servers: Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/Takahē
- login with Bluesky / ATProto identity and import social graph
- login with threads.net (requires app verification by Meta)
- share collections and reviews to Fediverse/Bluesky/Threads
- ActivityPub support
- NeoDB users can follow and interact with users on other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma
- NeoDB instances communicate with each other via an extended version of ActivityPub
- NeoDB instances may share public rating and reviews with a default relay
- implementation is based on Takahē server
API
- Mastodon compatible API
- most mastodon compatible apps are compatible with NeoDB
- NeoDB API to manage reviews and collections
Languages
- English
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- more to come and your contributions are welcomed!