I've been using tmdb out of spite since they brought this shitty change in. Less reviews, but I can be the change I want to see, and submit reviews here myself
I deleted my decades old IMDb account recently and migrated here. Meager protest against Amazon, I know, but tmdb is definitely good enough. Don't miss a thang.
Isn't tmdb prone to the same enshittification if it gets enough traction?
As is everything that isnt open source
Just checked for 2 minutes and immediately noticed clearly astroturfed fake and AI reviews.
Yep. Found that out a couple weeks ago for the same reason. I'm not giving them my data just to read some reviews. There's literally no reason to hide those behind a login other than to harvest your info and viewing habits.
But they already have your info and habits, that's all pretty easy to gather with ip logs and cookies. They want even more, and they want you to have to ask them to delete it
IMDb has been trash for like a decade now
Somebody recently acted like I was weird for looking up an actor’s filmography on Wikipedia instead of imdb. But I HATE imdb’s interface and will avoid it every time if I can. Wikipedia might not have every project a person has worked on but it has enough and it’s just presented in a simple table
TIL Amazon owns IMDB?
Amazon also owns IGDB (game database), Goodreads (books), and so on. For music data, they just support MusicBrainz which is open source, open license, and independent database. MusicBrainz have pilot project for books database, but it's not as good as Goodreads or other DB yet.
IMDb has been making shitty decisions for a long time. They have always been a business first, community last.
I doubt RT is much better but I use it mostly. It at least has been consistently the same amount of shitty UI since inception. TheMovieDb.org has a decent ratings system too and is getting more use, but again it's privately owned.
I'm not aware of a community run and operated ratings DB that's got any significant uptake.. Would be glad to hear of one if anyone knows.
I miss the imbd forums and reading about all the different theories viewers had on movies and shows. Enshitification of imbd started when they just randomly one day got rid of the forums.
It started when Amazon bought them
Is there a Fediverse IMDb equivalent?
Not everything needs to be fediverse.
Anyway, TMDB and TVDB are potential rivals
Not everything needs to be fediverse.
The way things are going, I'd argue otherwise lol
Just found out one of the site runners I believe it was @nutomic@lemmy.ml is making a federated wiki, which is terrific considering how wikis work and the process of filtering out the ideological bullshit on Wikipedia itself. Less drama since there's split, more tightly-knit teams, but also consider the possibility of being caugut up in multiple wiki moderation wars simultaneously 🤔 who knows if it would increase or decrease overall moderation spaghetti
The point is, what could possibly be worse than the current wikipedia moderation? They are absolute nolifer hellions
Because Amazon bought it
Letterboxd isn't a 1-to-1 replacement for imdb, but it does have user submitted reviews and ratings out of 5 stars. I would suggest giving it a shot if that's primarily what you're after.
It’s gotten more aggressive, but it hasn’t forced me to create an account yet.
E: hmm, the app doesn’t force me to sign in, but I do see that if I try to use a web browser.
You don't need to log in with the phone app, you've already given them everything they need by installing their spyware
I'm not sure why other commenters are able to do this without an account, but I also was surprised just now to click on user reviews to see:
Sign in to access user reviews - See opinions from other fans, or write your own review.
It's getting worse and worse with this shit all over the internet. They have fairly successfully already enclosed most of the commons, now they're building up the walls higher and higher. It's all about control and of course tracking. I used to use a frontend libremdb.iket.me to access IMDB, similar to nitter/xcancel to read twitter or invidious to watch youtube. But it looks like IMDB made sure that is completely broken now.
Edit: It's also a way to make people use the app instead of the website. This too is happening all over, reddit is well known for doing everything it can to force people onto the app, and their specific proprietary app. And it's for the same reasons I mentioned above. It's a lot harder to block ads from the app, but viewing the website with uBlock Origin on (and I refuse to browse any of the web without it, personally) you don't have to view a single ad. And again, control. You have a lot more choice and options using a web browser, not to mention somewhat obscure your identity, even though that's also becoming more impossible with browser fingerprinting. But using an app let's them curate exactly what they want you to see, including ads, and also gives them your exact unique identity. I don't know, I won't use the app, but I'm assuming you have to have an account to use the app, so of course people on the app aren't going to get a login wall because they're already logged in.
Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.
With you 
I’m only there to look at actors and see what they’re in or view their actor relationships (siblings, spouses, kids, etc.)
hi, just wanted to notify you that this can be circumvented automatically with a https://libredirect.github.io/ linking to an IMDB instance. I just checked and there is at least one public instance available. It has a button in the settings that scans a public registry of them, it can randomly select from them, and there is a button in its popup menu to automatically remove any broken instance + reroll. Often there are some that exist it doesn't know about, and the whole point is that you can host your own. In fewer words, it's a collection of private frontends run by a variety of collectives and hobbyists, with a slick addon that works in Firefox Android mobile btw 😎 . This should drastically improve your experience on mainstream websites, especially if you are the kind who "just drops in for second" and slams into a stupid login wall
Don't get caught lacking my friend nobody should be browsing default Youtube and IMDB layout. They have themes 🎀
They want data. Email addresses and usernames they can sell. Everybody's doing it to feed the evil beast known as advertising. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Enshitification
I've had an IMDb account longer than some Netizens have been alive. I feel like the Fediverse angles older, though, so I should be careful how I word it here. Popular social networks, though? Easy claim. Though, I feel like when people capitalise the B at the end, they might be younger? But I just checked and the B is definitely still lowercase, so I'm not sure where they got that it was upper.
That said, I got rid of the app a while ago. I just browse to it in Safari (iPhone) or Firefox (Mac) now. The app is trash. I've migrated my data to TMDB, but the site's not quite as good and lacks information, so I use both. (TMDB does not have an app. There's an app on the App Store, but it's not official and it sucks. So it's browser-only for now.)
Meanwhile I go to IMDb and am not forced to create an account.
Can you specifically go to "user reviews" using the website without getting a login wall?
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