Interesting!!

They have a point about the microblogging feed thing … but I’d question how essential that is as a feature. I imagine many might prefer to leave things on the neoDB instance?? (Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if this touches on the general topic of how federation isn’t everything in decentralised social media)

So logging in with an account then is about convenience (which is arguably something decentralisation can be more about!).

What’s more, from what I can tell, the neoDB account is linked to but still separate from the original fediverse account, meaning that someone can follow the neoDB account specifically for neoDB content … which is arguably a nicer way of doing things and could be available for all lemmy users.

Adding the group feature is interesting too!

My understanding is that bookwyrm kinda do that already ???

So I’d guess each item (book, film etc) would be a group and all reviews posts and all commentary ordinary comments??

Or … cross posting from neoDB, instead of being just to mastodon etc, could be to a specified group/community, which seems like an easier lift for neoDB, as then it wouldn’t need to implement a full group feature, but instead federate out a group-based post and be prepared to receive the “replies” to that post as comments much the same way it already does but compatible with the group-based threadiverse platforms like lemmy.

Combined with lemmy login and you’d be cooking!