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

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)

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

Mastodon compatible API
- most mastodon compatible apps are compatible with NeoDB
NeoDB API to manage reviews and collections