[KineticLensman]

> “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?"

[thimabi]

Or maybe there’s a “Who Is Looking for Love?” coming up on Ask HN, much like the job threads :)

[nkingsy]

If you think dating apps skew male…

[Der_Einzige]

All 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)

[mrweasel]

Weirdly enough old-school chat forums were not all that bad in terms of male to female ration. Back in the late 90s early 2000s I lived in an apartment with two roommates. They spend A LOT of their free time on chat forums and we'd frequently host parties for their friends from the chats. Those where pretty close to 50/50, maybe 60/40.

At that time anonymous online chats seemed to have little issue attracting young women.

[dragonwriter]

> All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated.

Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun".

> Discord especially is such a sausage fest.

Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them?

> Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)

Some were (and are), some weren't (and aren't).

[mezzie2]

> Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun".

This is what I'd suspect. I'm a lesbian and hang out pretty equally in very male dominated and very female dominated places online. I find it really interesting that most hobby/fandom spaces online do unofficially segregate by gender to the point where it's common in both to just assume everybody there is male/female (and straight, of course, because this all kind of relies on straight gender roles).

> Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them?

Yeah, I'm in several female dominated servers and have been in the past. I will say that more of the female dominated servers are private/not advertised, specifically to keep them from being overrun and keeping them a manageable size.

In general, the women care more about curating the social space for ease of connection and are more conscientious when it comes to things like considering how big a server can be before it's a pain to mod, what the impacts of creating another channel would be, what the impacts would be of creating restricted channels would be, etc. Guys wing it more.

[CM30]

It's very much a matter of what topic the forum or Discord server is about to be honest. My experience is that anything particularly tech orientated skews very heavily male, while more arts and crafts esque topics tend to skew more female. So I suspect for many people here (including myself), the communities we're interested in tend to be male dominated simply because tech in general tends to be.

[ikr678]

There is usually little to no value in revealing that you are a woman in these spaces.

[kayodelycaon]

Which means more opportunities for some males. :)

[danilor]

Off topic: What setup did you use to make this comment so that you used the … character instead of three . characters?

[kayodelycaon]

Autocorrect on an iPhone converts three periods to an ellipsis.

. . . => …

[falcolas]

Windows: 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]

On iOS, you can also long press the period button, then select the ellipsis in the pop up menu for accented characters and diacritics.

[yismail]

on macOS, option + ; seems to work …

[Trasmatta]

It has to have happened at least a few times, right?

[np_tedious]

I have a crush on dang but it hasn't gone anywhere yet

[throwup238]

I get a new throwaway banned every week in the hopes that he notices me.

[KineticLensman]

For certain values of 'love', perhaps...

[EarlKing]

Only if love is denominated in dollars and amounts to a seed round, anyway...

[haunter]

>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/

[yunwal]

I’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]

Letterboxd advertised itself as "Goodreads for film" yet here we are.

We still don't have a Goodreads for film

[saagarjha]

“Me when I used Rust at work” 500 karma

“Yeah I’d let Jim Keller design my CPU” 200 karma