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?
If it's bought by A24 or Sony that's absolutely gonna be a conflict on interest and I cannot imagine the platform would ever be impartial for the reviews of their movies. It NYT buys it, then it would be turned into a woke nonsense project. I guess all good things must come to an end.
I use https://movielens.org/ and it is ran by the University of Minnesota.
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
A24 is the biggest cheater on Letterboxd, buying 5 star raters en masse. Warner is not much better. Sony is ok.
https://popfeed.social/ on ATproto
Can't wait for the enshittification of Letterboxd.
Dear God, don't let Amazon do what it did to Goodreads here.
Amazing. So Imdb 2.0 has become Imdb 2.0.
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?
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
so glad I move over to TMDB the other day. Letterboxd layout is the worst.
If it's bought by A24 or Sony that's absolutely gonna be a conflict on interest and I cannot imagine the platform would ever be impartial for the reviews of their movies. It NYT buys it, then it would be turned into a woke nonsense project. I guess all good things must come to an end.
Heh, the name makes it sound like a daemon.
service letterboxd enable; service letterboxd start