Kasrean

Before I watch a movie I prefer mostly only checking out the rating a few of my trusted critics gave it, to see if it's worth my time or ticket admission. I will glance over a review or skip through the video to catch some bits and phrases to hear what's good or bad about it. Basically I use them like enhanced imdb/letterboxd/rt scores + summary adjusted to my tastes. For that this guy https://www.youtube.com/@AustinBurke/videos is quite reliable and usually likes what I like, roughly, even though he leans a bit fanboyish and the video style is quite... youtubery (he's basically a chris stuckman replacement), but again reliable for me.

After watching a movie I like indepth discussion between different perspectives, which is where movie podcasts shine. For that I mostly have two german podcasts/shows where the different hosts have their own youtube channels and/or letterboxd profiles (behaind and Robert Hofmann are my favourites but yeah, german, so probably not a great recommendation for most). I checked out tons of english review youtubers/podcasters over the years, RLM and YMS have fun takes but often don't align with mine and don't exactly rush out their reviews.

Traditional longform written reviews tend to be too time-intensive, too subjective/niche/artsy for my taste, but I will check indiewire from time to time when I'm bored and just want to read something. I subscribed to Mark Kermode's (Guardian) reviews too and will give them a glance every now and then. I really like many indie/foreign auteur dramas, but arthouse movies are a bit iffy, so reviewers that celebrate movies I personally view as overly and unnecessarily boring or cryptic can drive me up the wall (for example Green Knight or Titane are IMO super interesting but flawed and I want those flaws to be discussed and not dismissed). But I don't like super poppy reviewers either, it can be hard to find the middle ground and to have the presentation style of the review be worth my time too.

What do those cartel blogs look like?

oh no, i should have been specific. i was talking about the popular @lemmy.ml instance & its communities, lemmy.fmhy.ml seems to be a different instance just with a similar name/url.

Would be nice if it was "divided" by user types too. Imagine a post about a new Marvel movie and you could view a shared comment thread but also filter to remove "marvel-fans", or see only "cineasts", without leaving the thread. Could lead to more bubbles, but could also make it really easy to see what other bubbles are thinking.

Looks much better but tbh I still just don't super like that Lemmy face in general.

Probably just need people or bots to copy over some posts and comments (while giving credit).

these are the main things I care about, until a reddit alternative can provide this I'm going to stay mostly or frequently on reddit.

-somewhat reliable news headline feed from relatively neutral, serious center-right to center-left sources with little to no bad reporting/framing.
-reliably hear about social trends, but with some distance to them
-news discussion with some degree of different perspectives, some expertise, so it's not just all left to the popularity of the headline.
-discussion of movies and tv that is neither too fanboyish/popular leaning nor too indie/arthouse exclusive.
-collections of helpful pro-consumer information and resources, up to date megaposts in hobby communities
-a search function that will often enough lead to some helpful comments for most topics, googling "reddit xyz" was my go to for many years
-feeds for some types of videos, like publicfreakout, livestream clips.
-some communities that are more personal to me, like from my country or a political meme community, for venting and in-group discourse.
-control over what i see in my feeds, most recommendation algorithms and trending tabs just don't work for me
-control over where I engage with content and in what form it's presented, often I take a break from scrolling social media except for seeing some top posts in my rss feed. at some point I just want AI to read out summaries of all that stuff to me and actually visit website interfaces way less often myself.

Not sure, I would assume everything is just gone. Would be nice if powerusers could sometimes mark comments and posts as significant and some archive project agreed to fetch and store those at least (highly upvoted explanations, jokes, memes). Or I guess a couple of instances that only allow "best of" reposts from other instances would also work.

it matters a lot. if something is happening you want a quick overview of big discussion and not jump between a bunch of 10 small discussion rooms.

random default instances would probably need to follow some neutrality and diversity principle.

also it should be easy to clone your account and preferences (even comment history) to another instance.

I'd imagine at some point we don't need to interact with all sorts of UIs and websites, our personal AI assistants can just do it for us and send and receive information for us from where ever and present in whatever shape we want on our devices or through speech. That means centralization loses an advantage, doesn't matter where my friend posted something as long as it's authenticated, my AI can see it, push it forward to my "information desk" and present/read it to me.

I hope personal AI will fix all this shit somehow.