For fuck's sake can't anything just remain independent
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Booooooo. What's the fediverse alt to Letterbox? The reason I picked them years ago was they used TMBD instead of IMDB.
Well it was good while it lasted...
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).
There is NeoDB which is great software, but its official instance is mostly Chinese. I don't know if there are any ones that are mainly English, but I'd be down to join one.
In theory it wouldn't be difficult to build an alternative for the Fediverse. Letterboxd gets its film data from TMDB, which has an API that is free for non-commercial use.
Big federated version for all those sites would be awesome! The problem is probably that there are already like 12 different ones
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.
They promised show support years ago but for some reason people were really insistent that LB should remain movie only.
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.
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).
rotten tomatoes is owned by Fandango, IMDB by Amazon, so this makes sense (in the worst way).
What do you think is the reason? I would assume it's mostly for their data? Or would they need with the ranking to help their movies?
Letterboxd getting cancelled after season 3 somehow.
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.
I used Letterboxd for a single summer, and have since moved entirely to Trakt.tv. So far like it way more.
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!
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.
Cloudstream and its various extensions have allowed me to keep track of my movies, thank you very much.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
You are right to be lol, it might be like Twitter. Currently what is not working on Twitter:
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DMs
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search
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following feed
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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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