[baxtr]

What I find weird is that no one has solved the "people like you also liked this" problem for ratings/reviews.

All ratings on these platforms are average values through the entire cross-section of people.

Yet I am sure that they are people who have a very similar taste like me. I want to read their reviews, see their ratings, and recommendations.

Social media platforms do that pretty well these days.

[xandrius]

I guess because such a tool starts with you having to input a ton of data before being useful. Either people don't do that or if they are willing then the platform would be getting lots of valuable data and wants to keep you feeding it to increase their trove of data before selling off to Amazon or Google.

[Hendrikto]

I already rated hundreds of movies and TV shows on IMDB, for example. This could be used as a basis.

[conception]

https://www.criticker.com is the best I’ve seen for this. You rate movies relatively and then they match your ratings to people who have similar tastes and recommend based on that. So if you have period westerns all rated highly they’ll see what other movies were rated highly by people so rare period westerns highly. It’s actually pretty genius.

[mlinhares]

A recommendations Netflix guy explained this quite well, people lie in their reviews, so they mostly don't matter, what matters is watching habits, those clearly show what you really like instead of the imaginary person that rates movies they'd never watch.

So the actual market for something that recommends like that is quite small.

[542354234235]

I would disagree and say this is important if you are trying to maximize screen time, not if you are trying to maximize enjoyment. When I want to half pay attention or I am mentally tired, I put on something easy, usually something I have seen before. I watch it because it is easy and familiar, but I have no desire to watch something “similar”. If you keep pushing it, and auto playing, you could probably get me to watch similar things, but I doubt I will like them.

When I’m actually watching something, I want it to be complex, thoughtful, interesting and challenging. I don’t spend as much time watching but those are the things I watch with all of my attention.

I am actively trying to reduce my intake of low effort tv because it wastes my time, doesn’t actually give me much enjoyment, and takes attention away from things I do enjoy. It’s like comparing the books you read to doomscrolling Facebook. Reading time vs ratings are going to be very different.

[baxtr]

Interesting.

Did you see that online somewhere?

[mlinhares]

Don't remember where the specific interview was but here's them saying why they killed the star rating: https://about.netflix.com/en/news/goodbye-stars-hello-thumbs

[fzeindl]

http://www.gnovies.com exists since 2002.

(Other media: http://www.gnod.com)

[BryantD]

If you use Letterboxd, https://letterboxd.samlearner.com/ is good for this purpose.

[ZoomZoomZoom]

Rateyourmusic.com / Sonemic added movie scores/reviews a long time ago. You can follow people and their scores will be visible for you.

[adammarples]

They kind of have, that's how Netflix and Spotify recommended for you stuff works

[Hendrikto]

There is Tastedive, which has given both great suggestions as well as recommended utter garbage to me in the past. Very hit or miss, but when it hits it hits.