MovieBuff
social media
Current version: 0.1.0~ynh1
Potential alternative to: Letterboxd
MovieBuff is a federated social network for films and TV series, an alternative to Letterboxd built on ActivityPub.
Features
- Log what you watch, episode by episode for series, with a grade, a review and notes
- Watchlist, watched shelves, lists shared with other members, release calendar
- Follow people on MovieBuff, Mastodon, NeoDB and the rest of the Fediverse, reply, like and boost
- Import your history from Letterboxd, MyAnimeList or Jellyfin, and connect your own Jellyfin server
- Four post visibilities, follower approval, blocks, reports and domain moderation
- Installable on a phone (PWA), with push notifications
- English and French interface
This app is only compatible with these specific architectures: amd64, arm64
Important infos before installing
- MovieBuff needs a domain of its own (or a subdomain): it cannot be installed under a path such as
example.com/moviebuff, because other Fediverse servers look for it at the root of the domain. - The domain cannot be changed afterwards. It is the address of every account on the network: remote servers keep it, and moving would cost every follower.
- You need a free TMDB API key: https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api
- MovieBuff accounts are separate from YunoHost accounts. The YunoHost user chosen during the installation gets a MovieBuff administrator account with the same name and the password you choose.
- No e-mail is sent until you name a mail server in the app's Configuration panel in YunoHost, after the installation. Until then, new members sign up without confirming their address.
Antifeatures
(This app has features you may not like)
- Promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service.