Aside from bookwyrm, it's high time for us to have libre, self-hosted all-media rating site that would be an alternative to
#sonemic /
#RYM, rottentomatoes, imdb et al.
Stay tuned as I'm planning to release a preview implementation for collaborators to build on quite soon. I chose
#golang for the core backend functionality because most exp personally and a fair compromise between expressiveness and performance.
For the recommendation engine I'll prolly go for Rust, because most performance. As much as I hate gRPC, it would probably be the best option to make such a polyglot system make sense. Also, this is a call for my fellow
#libre software people who are also skilled at ML/graph DBs to contribute.
One of thn other main motivations for me to create this is that RYM is nowadays quite JS heavy and doesn't work with Tor. So that'd also be important for the frontend. Here once again I'm looking for contributors better versed in WASM if any client side code is to be executed at all.
The project will be hosted on codeberg (I'd like to host own git, but too fucking chaotic to expect it to be stable and would rather not disclose my IP).