A Sad Day to Be a Letterboxd User

After 7 years of being a consistent user, the highest for any platform I have ever used, I am really unhappy about the recent news that Netflix, Sony Pictures, and Paramount are all bidding to acquire Letterboxd. While my love for that app is undeniable, as it helped me a lot with discovering films that perhaps I could not find anywhere else, and I met truly interesting people with great taste in cinema, I can see the future of post-Amazon acquisition Goodreads for Letterboxd if it ends up with any of those immaculately evil companies. Truth be told, I can expect a much worse fate for Letterboxd considering how much larger the movie industry is compared to books, and also all those three companies can directly benefit from containing the most popular cinema-oriented app that can aid them not only in manipulating the discourse surrounding their products, but also use that data to shift strategic investments to different sectors of the enterprise. Netflix movies, for instance, usually…