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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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  • Oh, as the King of Over-thinking I have lots of thoughts. Not sure if they are well-formed.but that’s never stopped me before!

    The Mastodon integration is fairly crude - it just posts your activity to your timeline. I think most people would want that turned off by default unless they are posting a review or promoting something they’ve made as it could overwhelm your account quite quickly.

    Quite how other integrations work would depend on the service. I could see, for example, trailers (or other promotional videos) being integrated straight from PeerTube - in the future, I could see companies running their own Peertube instances.

    I may be biased but I find the idea of Threadiverse integration more intriguing. I’ve mentioned it before but I miss the old IMDb message boards where even the most obscure film had somewhere you could discuss it without it being lost in the mix. So I’d like to see links from NeoDB to relevant threads, so NeoDB wouldn’t itself have to include some kind of commenting system beyond the reviews. You could, at least initially, add these by hand but that would be a pain quickly and I’d like to ultimately see a text box on the Threadiverse post page where you could add the name of the specific item and that would automatically generate the link back. It would also add a link from the post to the NeoDB entry. So it’s the 75th anniversary of the release of Orwell’s 1984. An article is released Looking back on it’s cultural impact and I post that to literature.cafe and/or !britishbooks@feddit.uk. One of the fields to fill in includes one for NeoDB, so I add it in there and that automatically creates a backlink in the comments section of NeoDB but also a link to the NeoDB entry from my post. That way the links go in both directions.

    You could do this from micro-blogging services but it would tend to fill the comments with a lot less than useful links and I think the Threadiverse, along with blogs is the better format for such comment links.





















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