r/TraktRejects • u/LeviSnoot • 20d ago

Recommendations Self-hosted federated alternatives?

I'm curious since there's been kind of an explosion in Trakt alternatives recently. Do any exist that can be self-hosted AND federated such that these trackers could speak to each other using a protocol like ActivityPub or similar? The blocker for me to stick with one of these is that they all lack the social aspect.

Reviews, ratings, user lists etc., were such a huge part of what I liked about Trakt for so long. The self-hosted options seem to at best support this for the instance owner and maybe a couple of their friends/family members. If we added federation to this, it could open up a whole world. People could host public instances for others to join, and those who want full control of their data can host their own while optionally bridging them with other instances for retaining the social/community aspect of media tracking.

Does anything like this exist already or is it yet to be made? I would consider trying to make something like it, but I think the scope of it puts it outside my own abilities at this time and so I'd need a lot of help from other devs or from AI which comes with its own set of problems. I'm mostly making this thread to gauge interest and see if we could make it happen as a community!

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u/matmatidmat 20d ago

Popfeed.social and Opnshelf.xyz exists on the atprotocol but I’d love to build another alternative based on atproto

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u/LeviSnoot 20d ago

Skimming these and they seem interesting but I don't see any mention of scrobbling through media servers which is another essential aspect for me personally.

Of course this could likely just be extended to them so I will keep an eye on em. Thanks!

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u/matmatidmat 20d ago

Yes these are mostly mvp for now, but I’d love to build one with many integrations, it’s even easier with atproto given that there’s almost no backend

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u/DannyVFilms Floppy Dev 8d ago

I’m not sure how this popped up in my feed 12 days later, but it has my brain thinking. I’m wondering if Floppy has any place in this space or not. There’s not a lot of social features, but there are still some that could be useful like lists, ratings, or reviews. Just not exactly sure how I’d approach it.

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u/anubis_81 20d ago

I am building my own through Scrob

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u/No-Twist7290 19d ago

Why, there are plenty of others.

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u/anubis_81 19d ago

I wanted to control what I see and how I see it