@darius nice idea. consider opt in with https://eggplant.place

meanwhile it would be nice to share your code url, host name, and nodeinfo once you are ready to open your service. much as you'd like to research others' schema, other admin/dev may want to know more about yours, by looking into nodeinfo and code.

And good news for those not ready to onboard a dev instance: @shlee mentioned he's working on an English instance, we'll hear more from them when that's ready. I really look forward to that!

btw If you feel like to contribute to UI translation for a language other than English and Chinese, feel free to submit a PR of gettext PO file (e.g. https://github.com/neodb-social/neodb/tree/main/locale )

Appreciate all the questions about instance in English and other languages!

NeoDB UI is already available in English, but unlike Mastodon, it also has a catalog of books/movie/etc, and we have some improved localization capability upcoming.

If you are adventurous, dev instance https://eggplant.place is upgraded, the front page catalog is now mostly in English.

Obviously, since most existing users on flagship using Chinese, it may take a while to see more reviews in different languages.