I love not being bombarded by ads thanks to pihole and adblockers. I don’t have cable TV either. But without browsing netlifx/Hulu/etc. how do you actually find stuff to watch and discover worthwhile shows and movies to rent from my library?
I love not being bombarded by ads thanks to pihole and adblockers. I don’t have cable TV either. But without browsing netlifx/Hulu/etc. how do you actually find stuff to watch and discover worthwhile shows and movies to rent from my library?
The ‘popular’, ‘trending new shows’/‘up comming movies’, and ‘most anticipated’ lists in NZB360 (android app for managing the whole 'arr stack and more)
User requests via Ombi (it also has lists like above to look through)
Random titles I find on Lemmy.
Word of mouth.
Oh yeah: and IMDB lists added to radarr. Lists for various studios, and a big standup comedy list.
Do you add the IMBD list by hand?
The imdb lists are monitored by Radarr, but aren’t created by me.
I just found a few public lists I like and now whenever new content is added to those lists by their maintainers, Radarr adds+downloads it.
That’s what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?
Only a system that you have trained with like/dislike and can compare with other sets of content preference similar to yours will find that precious “content similar to your preferences but you haven’t seen yet”
That’s a content recommendation engine.
Now the questions is, how can we each run our owm self hosted recommemder engine which will share our list to others automatically so that we can pool it all together and create a useful recommender engine.
Without that, we have to rely on the artificial mainstream mush like marvel movie #27
Is it impossible to like mainstream stuff?
Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.
That’s how we get avengers 23 and batman 15.
You can also try random selection, or choose by the first letter of the title. Or decide with the cover.
Or you can have a system that considers what you actually like, finds people that like the same stuff as you, and then suggest other stuff that they like which you have not heard.
That’s how “the algorithm” works for youtube & netflix.
I want that, but running offline on my computer, disconnected from the internet.
Critics and mainsteam media has existed for as long as media has. They don’t choose for you. They just help judge whenever a movie might be worth watching.
It’s not like I watch a movie just beaucse it’s mainstream. I watch some mainstream movies because they specifically are good.
And isn’t really the most highly rated and well liked movies in existance mainstream by definition?
Is it impossible to like things outside the mainstream?
Movies can be liked irrespective of their mainstreamness.
…and that’s why the person you originally replied to asked their question. General popularity is generally a bad proxy metric for personal preference.
Popular movies are more likely to be liked than random movies. How can you not see that?
That’s what
conversionsconversations with actual people are for.I collect vast amounts of media of all sorts, then look through it based on recommendations from friends/family, as well as looking at actors/studios/genres I enjoy.
I don’t need everything fed to me by a computer, I’ll explore my own interests.