Link: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/letterboxd-sales-talks-netflix-sony-paramount-1236806379/

Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures, & the shitty Reddit cofounder lol lmao

Letterboxd always comes up in discussions of alternative sites to IMDb. I think it’s high time we stop recommending it and focus on FOSS services — marine something on the Fediverse? I do not trust Netflix or Sony or the paedo site and the less said about Paramount the better.

Of course I'd love to hop on a Letterboxd version of Funkwhale or Bookwyrm! Not everyone has the skills or spare time to whip it up & maintain it.

Letterboxd is a way for me to subscribe solely to people I talk to. The RSS feeds are good, shows logs, ratings, reviews, I figure the timeline is about the same. I don't even go to the actual movie pages except to log something, & roll my eyes at a top level review occasionally, when I hate myself.

there's NeoDB in case you didn't know, it is not solely for movies so maybe that's not quite what you're looking for but i switched to using that from Letterboxd a while ago and have been pretty happy with it for my purposes.

Nice, I don't think I have seen it mentioned. Well, if there's a good time to convince people to use it, it would be now. People hate these companies. In my experience with FOSS alternatives people are only willing to bother to upgrade to a better platform (even if they see it has better features & fewer downsides to make up for the more cloistered network, which can also be a positive, feels like a small private party) if they already have you in their inner ring of correspondence, very frequent, worth developing redundancies for. Most people I discuss art with are at arm's length. I'll try!

All good points. I mean, I don't use Letterboxd, but I know it's more than just reviews. I'm just worried about what will happen when it gets bought by a company I don't care for.

You are right to be lol, it might be like Twitter. Currently what is not working on Twitter:

• DMs

• search

• following feed

• basic app stability

People are only just now realizing they need to switch. Sigh. I still have all these features since I get my friends' posts through RSS. I see them complaining about not seeing each other. Same could happen with Letterboxd. Also other guy pointed out we have NeoDB to usher them into so it's worth a shot