Shining some light on review platform NeoDB, Mastodon launches some features to better support journalism, a first version of Ghost joins the fediverse, and more.
  • A fully-featured review platform for the fediverse with NeoDB
  • Mastodon better supports journalism with author bylines on links, and seeing what people are talking about on trending news links
  • The first Ghost instance joins the fediverse
  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    Lots of nice integration allowing Mastadon users to access Lemmy content, but I’m waiting for the other direction to work – I want to access Mastadon from Lemmy! :)

    • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      I definitely feel like I’d be more into the whole microblogging scene if I could just do it from over here instead. Lol

      Exciting times we’re in though, that’s for sure!

          • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            So, I tried mbin a little bit. I still like the alexandrite ui a little better. Mbin doesn’t display images until you go into the post and then click on them from there. I’d rather just see them when I open the post.

            I do like the general design though, it seems pretty clean. It does have me wondering if there are any good frontends available for desktop.

      • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        4 months ago

        Fair enough. I’m also lazy and don’t want to have to migrate :)

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
            4·
            4 months ago

            Initial thoughts:

            Does import but only from three sources:

            import list or archives from some 3rd party sites:

            • Goodreads reading list
            • Letterboxd watch list
            • Douban archive (via Doufen)

            This could be an issue:

            login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph - supported servers:

            • Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/Takahē

            https://neodb.net/features/

            The login page specifically mentions signing in using Mastodon (although In assume the other named services also work) and returns a 404 if you try to use a Lemmy instance:

            https://neodb.social/account/login

            So I signed up with my Mastodon account and that went smoothly.

            The data page does show that the importing is only from the named sources.

            Conclusion:

            It’s a very nice looking service and should prove very useful.

            For our purposes here it would need Lemmy integration but that’s not insurmountable, it’s written in Python so there should be plenty of people who could get stuck in an add it.

            I’d, personally, want to import my IMDb lists but that’s not difficult to fix as other movie sites allow this (I know Trakt do, and the clunky fix is to go via Letterboxd who also appear to do it but I haven’t tried there).

            So a few issues I’d like to see addressed but neither look too difficult and, as this has only just popped up on our radar, I am sure there are people thinking along the same lines (and many others, as this has huge potential).