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#NeoDBtips

Search on #NeoDB ( #Fediverse alternative to #Letterboxd #Goodreads etc) could use some work, but enclosing a media title in quote marks can help.

E.g.

1. Movie & TV search for sour minnows (without quotes): have to scroll through all internal NeoDB results, then through all external results, to find the TMDB result for Sour Minnows as the very last result 😓

2. Movie & TV search for "sour minnows" (with quotes): only 1 result, TMDB for Sour Minnows 👍

@juergen_hubert

Not so much recruit non-Fed people to #Fediverse, but🤞encourage people using one Fed service to also use another. E.g. those who use #Mastodon & #Letterboxd to use #NeoDB instead of LB.

- Make #LastFourWatched posts w/ LetterboxdFriday & #NeoDBFriday tags
- Occasional advice posts tagged #NeoDBtips
- Answering / boosting questions re NeoDB

With news of LB's sale soon (probably to Netflix or Sony), several folks I know have made the jump from LB to NeoDB this month

#NeoDBtips

What if an item's page on #NeoDB ( #Fediverse alternative to #Letterboxd etc) doesn't have a WikiData button?

You can help out & fix that by searching the item on Wikidata, then entering the Wikidata URL into the search box on NeoDB. Then the item's page will refresh with a WikiData button where people can access links for the item's Wikipedia page in various available languages.

More info in Alt Text.

#NeoDBtips

An item like a film on #NeoDB ( #Fediverse alternative to #Letterboxd etc) can have buttons for other instances & platforms next to an item's title.

If you click on a button, it will take you to that item's page on that other site.

The Wikidata icon is special: it might take you to that item's Wikidata page, but usually it offers a list of links to that item's Wikipedia page in multiple languages.

More info in Alt Text.

@enriquericos

You're welcome :)

You can also import people into #NeoDB !

E.g. Jami Gertz not hyperlinked on Solarbabies page

1. Copy IMDb URL for her
2. Enter it into NeoDB search box
3. Wait a bit
4. Copy the rest of the NeoDB URL after the instance: /person/3cGeIV9BvfgO9btwihvdQZ
5. Edit the Solarbabies page & paste that into the box with her name (replacing her name)
6. Save

Now her name is hyperlinked to a NeoDB page about her, not just plain text

#NeoDBtips

#NeoDBtips

#NeoDB (fediverse alternative to #Letterboxd etc) was started by Chinese folk & originally imported much data from Chinese sites like Douban. Which means often a media page has lots of/only Chinese

You can manually add English/other languages, but also you can import data from another source like IMDb, which will turn a lot of info into English

- Copy the IMDb (or other compatible source) URL
- Paste & enter it into the search box on NeoDB
- Wait a bit
- Media page will update

For #Letterboxd refugees & other newcomers to #NeoDB ( #Fediverse media catalogue), a collection on NeoDB is like a list on Letterboxd or #IMDb

When you make a collection, there is no 'cover image' automatically created by NeoDB but you can add one yourself

Usually I get an image from https://openclipart.org/ & tweak it in an image editor. And I'm *terrible* at image editing 😁 If I can do it, so can you!

See Alt Text for more info

See https://eggplant.place/users/klu9/ for examples

#NeoDBtips