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▲Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding (worldofreel.com)
reticulates 26 minutes ago [-]
I continue to be baffled by this sale. Letterboxd was acquired by Tiny 3 years ago, Tiny’s entire premise is that they hold for the long term. Selling after 3 years is not long term. I don’t understand why Tiny would undermine their raison d’etre unless it’s because the founders (who retain a minority stake) are pushing for it.

Tiny just recently updated their website to emphasize how long they’ve owned each property which is especially confusing given they’re now offloading things https://tiny.com/companies/letterboxd

“Tiny's model — long-term ownership, founder autonomy, no pressure to flip the company in three to five years — fit naturally.”

…?

Grombobulous 3 minutes ago [-]
I imagine that in life and business there’s no such thing as a decision that is never regrettable. I guess it just didn’t work out.
OzzyB 20 minutes ago [-]
so you _believed_ them -- that is the only takeaway from this.
rdmuser 1 hours ago [-]
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.
aucisson_masque 19 minutes ago [-]
> Same goes for amazon buying imdb and they've already used that to adjust scores for at least one film they released

Any source on that ? I found nothing serious, just reddit and Facebook post. No one serious is reporting on it.

rdmuser 3 minutes ago [-]
Ah sorry I should have linked from the start instead of being kind of handwavy so people can make their own call on the event I was thinking about. It was in reaction to review bombing of The Little Mermaid.

https://www.avclub.com/the-little-mermaid-imdb-changes-ratin...

I'm actually pretty fond of the general concept of smoothing out most review bombing but the fact that imdb ran ages without this feature, they only implemented it when one of their films had issues, that they aren't open about the specifics and stand to quietly benefit from manipulations like this has me petty uncomfortable.

clayhacks 1 hours 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
zoenolan 1 hours ago [-]
rurban 1 hours ago [-]
A24 is the biggest cheater on Letterboxd, buying 5 star raters en masse. Warner is not much better. Sony is ok.
madeofpalk 26 minutes ago [-]
What 5 start ratings have they purchased?
DarkNova6 1 hours ago [-]
Amazing. So Imdb 2.0 has become Imdb 2.0.
kkotak 18 minutes ago [-]
Why not $3B? or $30B, even?
Computer0 1 hours ago [-]
I use https://movielens.org/ and it is ran by the University of Minnesota.
PyWoody 19 minutes ago [-]
This looks almost too good to be true! Thank you for sharing. I'm going to migrate my 600+ library over tonight.
dgellow 37 minutes ago [-]
Damn, that asking price is insane
hotsalad 42 minutes ago [-]
Heh, the name makes it sound like a daemon.

service letterboxd enable; service letterboxd start

535188B17C93743 1 hours ago [-]
Can't wait for the enshittification of Letterboxd.

Dear God, don't let Amazon do what it did to Goodreads here.

mpalmer 1 hours ago [-]
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?
thrownaway561 59 minutes ago [-]
so glad I move over to TMDB the other day. Letterboxd layout is the worst.
ChrisArchitect 1 hours ago [-]
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

sajithdilshan 44 minutes ago [-]
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.
nimih 32 minutes ago [-]
part of the charm of letterboxd is that its median reviewer is far more woke than every NYT contributor combined, imo.
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