Introducing Fedi Film Club
(lemmy.ml)
Not sure how true that is. Either way, from what I’ve seen, fediverse platforms move slowly compared to what people would prefer.
later than the exodus, probably earlier this year.
There's a chance what you saw was in part the core devs being a bit cranky toward feature requests that come off a bit "demanding". In my case I asked them how the felt about the idea.
Actually, I think you're spreading some false-hoods here.
I've spoken to the core-devs about this here, and they acknowledged that being able to follow people/users would be a generally good idea, but felt that it was a lot of work and so not a priority at the moment.
I'm with you on the desire of a platform the fuses the two general mechanisms (groups and users), and I think a groups-first platform like lemmy can bring something valuable to how a user's feed would work ... but the reality is that this sort of thing is just not in the fediverse's DNA at the moment. These aren't for-profit companies that need to wheel out features constantly to keep their stock price up!
There's an exception to that though ... friendica, hubzilla and streams, the sort of alternative timeline or "ancient magic" for the fediverse that predates ActivityPub and mastodon by long margins. They have clunky UIs, but are quite feature full, and happily combine both groups and users.
The interesting test will be when the Gunniverse starts
Was just thinking the same thing recently ... inadvertently, that "project" seems perfectly timed to steer the industry in a moment of uncertainty. Like 2 "flops" from Gunn and that could be the clear beginning of the end of mainstream comic films. Great successes, and it'll keep going for sure.
I wonder if Dune (at least part 2) is having any bearing on the industry ... because I'd guess it isn't at a broad level because that kind of content and film making is just not economical enough at the "cinematic universe" scale. But then again, are we going to see more classic and epic Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories being pushed out? Is some exec chucking a fit about why they don't own the rights to Asimov's Foundation?
Yea a scheduled discussion thread could work well. Don't know what times works for people ... but if it's pinned and always posted at the same time or the same date of the month, I'd imagine it would work well.
Cheers!
Yea, great question. I'd guess that this is likely to be the biggest issue with the whole thing.
I personally don't think one person can source a particular film for everyone. I think crowd sourcing availability options is realistically the only way to go.
What we might find out though is that the current streaming system is actually a regression from the days of video rental shops. In the past, many of the films we'd want to watch would have been available at the local shop. Some might have required some hunting but nothing too serious. And esoteric ones would have been hard to find and required an academic library or something.
Now, if you have to sign up to a different streaming service and potentially VPN for every different film you want to watch, that may become prohibitive for many and would really be a step backward however convenient the internet is otherwise.
I'm hoping it's fine, and I'm also rather curious to see how it goes TBH.
I personally have found decent success in renting films off of Apple ITunes/TV. And I've also found a nearby old-school video rental with quite a good collection of DVDs and BlueRays. So I'll probably be leveraging those. But I don't know how available or desirable that is for many here or exactly what other options there are.
It will certainly be a conversation for every film we want to watch, I think.
Further Notes ...
- This isn't a live watch thing
- Watch the films in your own time and how you want, including a live watch thing of your own if you like of course
- This will be flexible
- There's plenty of scope to adjust how this works along the way
- Happy to take suggestions here, as I said, but I think running it at least once before getting too much into the weeds is a good idea
- One of the biggest ways in which this could adapt, IMO, is being specific with the genre and/or era for any given month, and/or maybe even expanding it out to multiple movie clubs for different interests
- The first two aims listed above are the main thing IMO
- Which means the voting is just to lead to a suggestion for us to gather around one film at a time
- You can watch and post about any of the suggestions if you like (obviously, really) and that'd absolutely be a good thing ... watching cool/good/interesting films is the whole point IMO
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The Idea
- Watch and discuss movies together (kinda like a book club)
- "Crowd source" recommendations for not-entirely-new films (IE, older than a year or so, let's say)
- Aim for generally bettering or curating our film "diet"
How it will work (at least at first)
- 1 film a month
- First, a post to take nominations/suggestions
- Post any film you want to watch, or have heard good things about, or recommend to everyone else
- Second, a post to take votes on the nominations
- And then we watch and discuss the winner
First round will start next month (July)
Please share any thoughts/feedback, though we'll likely run this at least once first before making any changes, just to feel it out
This is one of my favourite things!
I've walked most of it (though I couldn't find Saturn for some reason ... I suspect it was stolen).
And yea ... it's a ridiculously effective demonstration of how hard it is to comprehend big numbers. I knew these numbers, or had read them before hand, and thought about them ... but seeing it all to scale was kinda devastating ... like the distances between the outer planets are huuuge ... you get tired walking them even though the planets are 5cms wide.
And yea, the proxima centauri thing is a very nice touch!
Right. Well, I think the instance name "vegantheory.org" was doing that already, and I'm betting you drew your conclusion from the public description of the place too (and aren't in the modlog or anything for challenging their ideas).
And what would a non-vegan want to do in there?
What's wrong with minority views and practices creating their own spaces?
On which, is there any non-vegan/anti-vegan thought or idea that a vegan is likely to have not heard already? How many haven't they heard relative to the amount of decent "pro-vegan" ideas they also haven't heard of?
Maybe a specialised space, echo chamber even, makes sense in order to balance against the gravity of the mainstream?
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I was ultimately ambivalent about Poor Things, but this one looks more like the Lanthimos I’ve enjoyed in the past. I think I’ll make an effort to see it in the cinema.