Having such a high profile film rating site be potentially owned by a film studio has serious conflict of interest issues. Same goes for amazon buying imdb and they've already used that to adjust scores for at least one film they released because of bad reviews. I'm happy to see this get some attention here after my submission didn't because the potential implications of this purchase are big.
Truly, everything good gets milked dry for someone's exit. I know that's usually celebrated in a forum like this, but is it possible things are just a bit out of balance?
Having such a high profile film rating site be potentially owned by a film studio has serious conflict of interest issues. Same goes for amazon buying imdb and they've already used that to adjust scores for at least one film they released because of bad reviews. I'm happy to see this get some attention here after my submission didn't because the potential implications of this purchase are big.
Is there an ATproto or activity pub version of letterboxd? I like A24, but not sure how much I trust Sony or the NYT to run it reasonably
https://popfeed.social/ on ATproto
A24 is the biggest cheater on Letterboxd, buying 5 star raters en masse. Warner is not much better. Sony is ok.
Referenced NYT piece (unlocked): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/business/media/letterboxd...
Related background on the state of growth there from a few months ago:
The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463894
Amazing. So Imdb 2.0 has become Imdb 2.0.
I use https://movielens.org/ and it is ran by the University of Minnesota.
Truly, everything good gets milked dry for someone's exit. I know that's usually celebrated in a forum like this, but is it possible things are just a bit out of balance?
Can't wait for the enshittification of Letterboxd.
Dear God, don't let Amazon do what it did to Goodreads here.