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.
clayhacks [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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
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?
535188B17C93743 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Can't wait for the enshittification of Letterboxd.
Dear God, don't let Amazon do what it did to Goodreads here.
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
Dear God, don't let Amazon do what it did to Goodreads here.