Why does a movie database need to be turned into social media? Even user reviews are usually asinine babbling and random users' lists really junked up imdb imo.

I have not tested it myself (only really know about them because of Emby scrapers) but it looks like they do

For Amazon at least try purchased imdb before starting producing shows and movies

Amazon is a tech company not a studio. The thing is Amazon doesn’t care a bit about their production side because it is an ant. They make money hand over fist selling the internet infrastructure to deliver video content for all the major streaming companies.

The data alone from user preferences on IMDB is probably worth more than the revenue they derive from their studio efforts.

Hate how there’s no API access and they’ve put up that web firewall since AI scrapers though.

edit: I see some people are upset at my statement but it's a fact. Unlike say Paramount or Disney, production of media doesn't make up any significant amount of Amazon's global revenues nor is it a primary business concern in the way dominating online shopping or content delivery for the web is. As such Amazon is a tech company that owns a studio but that studio is not at the wheel so to speak for decisions and is probably a side venture more than a genuine attempt to dethrone or replace the existing movie studios (if Amazon wanted to do that they'd buy an existing one). It's a way to make some unique content to keep people subscribing to prime and watching prime video as a kind of draw for keeping them paying for and using prime generally which feeds into maintaining dominance of online shopping. It also funnels customers into paying for streaming subs from other companies like HBO through Prime which gives Amazon a cut.

Given that, Amazon's interests are torn between its own studio which is mainly a value add for prime subscriptions and a prestige "we can make TV too" thing for Bezos and the fact the other studios and cable companies are big, big customers of theirs for AWS. But the weight on the scale is clearly against the studio in that equation.

It looks very good, I didn't know about it, for now it seems that the majority of the community speaks Chinese, which complicates things a little for me, but the database itself I don't know where it comes from because it comes out in Spanish (my language) so it looks fantastic, I'm going to join a server and see if they manage to continue growing and increase the western servers

The FeDiverse version of Goodreads, a social networking app for books and reading, lets you keep track of the books you've read and share reviews of them, as well as follow others and their reviews.

They own IMDB and Goodreads, but I never heard anything about them owning Letterboxd.

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