Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures, & the shitty Reddit cofounder lol lmao

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Letterboxd always comes up in discussions of alternative sites to IMDb. I think it’s high time we stop recommending it and focus on FOSS services — marine something on the Fediverse? I do not trust Netflix or Sony or the paedo site and the less said about Paramount the better.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Of course I'd love to hop on a Letterboxd version of Funkwhale or Bookwyrm! Not everyone has the skills or spare time to whip it up & maintain it.

    Letterboxd is a way for me to subscribe solely to people I talk to. The RSS feeds are good, shows logs, ratings, reviews, I figure the timeline is about the same. I don't even go to the actual movie pages except to log something, & roll my eyes at a top level review occasionally, when I hate myself.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    there's NeoDB in case you didn't know, it is not solely for movies so maybe that's not quite what you're looking for but i switched to using that from Letterboxd a while ago and have been pretty happy with it for my purposes.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Nice, I don't think I have seen it mentioned. Well, if there's a good time to convince people to use it, it would be now. People hate these companies. In my experience with FOSS alternatives people are only willing to bother to upgrade to a better platform (even if they see it has better features & fewer downsides to make up for the more cloistered network, which can also be a positive, feels like a small private party) if they already have you in their inner ring of correspondence, very frequent, worth developing redundancies for. Most people I discuss art with are at arm's length. I'll try!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    All good points. I mean, I don't use Letterboxd, but I know it's more than just reviews. I'm just worried about what will happen when it gets bought by a company I don't care for.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

    You are right to be lol, it might be like Twitter. Currently what is not working on Twitter:

    • DMs

    • search

    • following feed

    • basic app stability

    People are only just now realizing they need to switch. Sigh. I still have all these features since I get my friends' posts through RSS. I see them complaining about not seeing each other. Same could happen with Letterboxd. Also other guy pointed out we have NeoDB to usher them into so it's worth a shot

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    [–] 38 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Well it was good while it lasted...

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I wonder if a fediverse-friendly version exists. It would need to be slick to get the critical mass that makes those kinds of sites useful (like review sites, etc).

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago

    I fucking hate capitalism

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Whew, I'm feeling pretty good for not using Letterboxd as I was considering moving to it a while back. The platform started off good but it kind of devolved into every review trying to be a funny one liner instead of actually reviewing the movie.

    I also found it very weird that Letterboxd doesn't have any TV shows, it's only movies.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I only recently started using Letterboxd and I noticed the same thing about their movie reviews. Everyone tries to come up with the snarkiest comment that will get voted to the very top.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It became that way shortly after it blew up a year or so ago. If you find some reviewers you like or have similar taste, just seeing their reviews on top and browsing their lists makes the site a lot more friendly.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    There are certain TV series on letterboxd now, though not sure you can filter for them specifically. The only way I've been able to tell us runtime being several hours.

    For example Pam & Tommy (2022) is a limited series on there plus Lessons in Chemistry (2023).

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    rotten tomatoes is owned by Fandango, IMDB by Amazon, so this makes sense (in the worst way).

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Letterboxd getting cancelled after season 3 somehow.

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    Refused to use it. Advised other people to avoid it.

    The opposite of the fell-for-it-again award is a Cassandra. She's like an Oscar, but for being right about bad things.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Aw man, that sucks, since there isn't really a good alternative for it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I used Letterboxd for a single summer, and have since moved entirely to Trakt.tv. So far like it way more.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I used trakt for years and the new v3 UI is such garbage, combined with jacking the price up I jumped ship rather than keep dealing with them. They still offer the far superior V2 UI, but only for paying subscribers.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Man, I was just starting to switch over to Letterboxd because IMDB now requires I have an account to read reviews... If this goes through it's only a matter of time before the enshittification begins. We need to create a decentralized movie/tv review site!

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Private equity destroys the world.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    For fucks' sake, I just moved to Letterboxd after Trakt decided to force their dogs but new UI on everyone and quadruple their premium costs, this sucks.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Wähhhh I don't like this at all

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Cloudstream and its various extensions have allowed me to keep track of my movies, thank you very much.

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    For fuck's sake can't anything just remain independent

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Booooooo. What's the fediverse alt to Letterbox? The reason I picked them years ago was they used TMBD instead of IMDB.

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