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> “The thing about Letterboxd is there isn’t a ‘central town square’ like there is on X; it’s a very single-channel conversation,” says Gracewood. Comments happ
by KineticLensman 2y ago
> “The thing about Letterboxd is there isn’t a ‘central town square’ like there is on X; it’s a very single-channel conversation,” says Gracewood. Comments happen in-line – similar to those on the Guardian and Observer websites – meaning that it’s less possible to performatively repost content into a main feed in order to encourage a pile-on. Similar situations exist on platforms such as Goodreads and Strava, where it’s possible to communicate with and message others, but not to publicly shame them easily.
> Because hobby apps are nicer places to exist, people spend more time on them – and they can eventually turn into services that are more than advertised. That includes finding like-minded people with whom you’d want to spend your time romantically.
> One reason that people may be starting to find love on apps not explicitly designed for that purpose is because the expectations are lower – and as such, the atmosphere is less sexually charged.
I feel an 'Ask HN' coming on: "have you found love on HN?"
- Trasmatta 2y agoIt has to have happened at least a few times, right?
- KineticLensman 2y agoFor certain values of 'love', perhaps...
- EarlKing 2y agoOnly if love is denominated in dollars and amounts to a seed round, anyway...
- np_tedious 2y agoI have a crush on dang but it hasn't gone anywhere yet
- throwup238 2y agoI get a new throwaway banned every week in the hopes that he notices me.
- thimabi 2y agoOr maybe there’s a “Who Is Looking for Love?” coming up on Ask HN, much like the job threads :)
- nkingsy 2y agoIf you think dating apps skew male…
- danilor 2y agoOff topic: What setup did you use to make this comment so that you used the … character instead of three . characters?
- kayodelycaon 2y agoAutocorrect on an iPhone converts three periods to an ellipsis. . . . => …
- yismail 2y agoon macOS, option + ; seems to work …
- falcolas 2y agoWindows: Alt+0133 - numbers typed with the number pad. The character map app on Windows can help find all of these codes for different glyphs.
- thimabi 2y agoOn iOS, you can also long press the period button, then select the ellipsis in the pop up menu for accented characters and diacritics.
- kayodelycaon 2y agoWhich means more opportunities for some males. :)
- Der_Einzige 2y agoAll the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. I strongly believe in the autism as extreme male brain hypothesis for this reason. Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)
- haunter 2y ago>The thing about Letterboxd is there isn’t a ‘central town square’ like there is on X; it’s a very single-channel conversation,” The problem with Letterboxd that it's gamified and there is an incredible amount of noise and it's getting worse. Top reviews are all just copy paste like baits. "Me when watching a Ghibli film :cryingemoji:" 20k likes "Yes I'd let Ethan Hawke visit me every single night" 10k likes etc It's a good site but also must users are writing dogshit Just look at the popular reviews page https://letterboxd.com/reviews/popular/this/week/ https://letterboxd.com/reviews/popular/this/week/
- yunwal 2y agoI’m not seeing what’s so bad about the popular reviews. I guess my one complaint would be that no one is writing reviews and so they should stop calling it reviews when they’re really tweets about movies, but I think if Letterboxd were actually 100% in-depth reviews I’d log off immediately. Usually people writing a short quip about a weird/funny thing they noticed is way more enlightening than trying to go through some intellectual exercise after every movie you watch.
- haunter 2y agoLetterboxd advertised itself as "Goodreads for film" yet here we are. We still don't have a Goodreads for film
- saagarjha 2y ago“Me when I used Rust at work” 500 karma “Yeah I’d let Jim Keller design my CPU” 200 karma