A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.
The problem is that any review aggregator is wide open to manipulation, you just rely on the integrity of the reviewers, which has shown to be lacking.
I’d like a Fediverse version of IMDb but that’s another thing entirely.
Anyone know of any good - maybe open source/federated - alternatives?
The problem is that any review aggregator is wide open to manipulation, you just rely on the integrity of the reviewers, which has shown to be lacking.
I’d like a Fediverse version of IMDb but that’s another thing entirely.
Rotten tomatoes wasn’t paid. Their independent reviewers were. A federated version would be even more vulnerable to this kind of thing.
Maybe we should start posting our own movie review here on Lemmy and let lemmings comment and vote.
I use https://www.themoviedb.org/ quite often, it’s pretty good.
For anyone that might care, I found this pretty neat IMDB front-end: https://libremdb.iket.me
Fosstard take