Why are you even still on Twitter?? Especially if it's affecting your psychological health.
HN is 'good' {not 'very good'} for civil discourse.
I would suggest forums - yes, the good ole forum groups - and specific redds, that focus on broader but specific topics that you enjoy - and staying away from those that you don't.
I also suggest building a personalized network of RSS feeds to content that you like, and interacting the writers and other commenters.
> Is there a sane place on the web left?
Yes. But they're 'boring' compared to rage/race-baiting, pseudo-politicized gated media with masked--and often open--agendas to keep you continuously riled-up to keep feeding The Age of Stupidity.
IMdb deleted all their message boards in 2017 [1], which also included ALOT of user reviews, more than the Reviews section on the site.
Fortunately MovieChat.org took up archiving as much as it could of the old content, and up to today providing the same 'style' of community engagement as the old boards. I wonder if they'll do the same for User Reviews.
There's even a userscript [2] that seamlessly puts an embed of the equivalent MovieChat board (if available) for each IMdb entry, right in the site section where the old IMdb boards used to be.
I assume you can make an account on MC and still participate in all those (their) boards.
I'll admit though-- probably like many, I came to the old IMdb boards just before the deletion, and to be honest they were kinda shitty. Sorry. Alot of trollposting and lack of seriousness when someone tried to have a serious discussion about some work. But it was overall and mostly Fun!
The MovieChat boards still have much of that old content - take a look and enjoy.
moviechat is OK for old movies with old discussions
after discussing and rating movies on IMDB I completely stopped and using it not logged in only to check rating in Google results and ocassionally to check reviews, now that reviews are gone I guess I should stop checking their reviews and ditch this site completely
It's a pity that MC and TMDB boards didn't become the equivalent of 'HN for visual media' and Reddit for the wider 'audience'. Today, Reddit is possibly the most popular site to read non-mainstream reviews.
Consider that she's one of 'the good guys'-- someone who self-reflected on her ambition, saw the 'evil' in hers and other's, called it out publicly, and assumedly regrets hers, and is trying to do better.
Sadly, terrifyingly, for every one of her, there are hundreds who might also self-reflect - but >choose< to be comix-book villains.
Thank you, sincerely:-- I did do a cursory search to see if previous submissions had been made; I was genuinely shocked to get no results. My search-fu failed me.
HN is 'good' {not 'very good'} for civil discourse.
I would suggest forums - yes, the good ole forum groups - and specific redds, that focus on broader but specific topics that you enjoy - and staying away from those that you don't.
I also suggest building a personalized network of RSS feeds to content that you like, and interacting the writers and other commenters.
> Is there a sane place on the web left?
Yes. But they're 'boring' compared to rage/race-baiting, pseudo-politicized gated media with masked--and often open--agendas to keep you continuously riled-up to keep feeding The Age of Stupidity.
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