Anyone well known who wants to speak out about what’s been happening on reddit? Louis Rossmann? Apollo dev? John Oliver (one can dream)… or maybe former Reddit mods who were kicked out?
Anyone who has a story and who understands they’d have a massive impact by giving an exclusive AMA on a Lemmy or Kbin instance.
This could be announced a few days in advance to make sure all remote instances follow the AMA community.
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I’d prefer IamA’s, instead of AMA’s. Stuff like I am a Ukrainian freedom fighter, I am lawyer that represented a serial killer, I am terminally ill. I wanna know what the people are doing, not what the celebs are doing.
Personally I’m not very interesting, but I know some of yous are. Let’s all chat!
I miss those days of early AMA’s before they turned into celebrity worship. There were some interesting and some really fucked up reads in there.
Without a doubt I miss the more normal IAMA’s also.
One of the most successful IAMA’s of all time was the vacuum repair guy and he absolutely was fascinating.
Why would famous people want to do an AMA here, on Lemmy, of all places?
Anyways, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.
I’m actually amazed this account wasn’t made just for this comment lol
Quick someone call spez… Get him over here, we LOVE to hear him talk.
/s
He’s all about his sense of pride and accomplishment
Oh shit, I forgot to add that to the spez bingo card, you KNOW it’s coming, probably just in different words.
Be honest, how many usernames are you parking across as many instances as possible? 😂
I’d love to find out that that’s the real Margot Robbie hiding in plain sight.
That would be pretty clever, right?
I have seen you post before and had the same thought that it might actually be you, as in Margot Robbie. If I were to become famous, I’d still post things online.
If it is really you, maybe you can answer a few questions about movie production. Do you think the easy access to information now that everyone uses the internet influence how scenes are written? For example, scenes with a character getting hit in the head, knocked out, and being fine. I still see lots of unrealistic stuff like that.
It’s really about the suspension of disbelief, correct?
Realism should not get in the way of making a good movie, of course a crazy ex-psychiatrist in clown makeup killing people with baseball bats also would not exist in real life, but that’s acting. What’s more important is the rules of the fictional universe are internally consistent to prevent that loss of suspension of disbelief.
And so, like in the movies, in a place where you can be anyone, I am whoever you want me to be.
It’s really up to you.
Well, not necessarily ultra famous people, but anyone who has a story to share regarding the Reddit fiasco. For example third party app developer. Maybe the Sync developer who confirmed a Lemmy app is in the works
I’m still not sure what my life is going to look like after /r/furry_irl is dead.
Word of mouth marketing is the best strategy right now. Look how lemmy user base spiked in recent days. More people will look for alternatives after 3rd party apps stops working on July 1st. In the meantime, spread the word on reddit.
Maybe we can get @ruud@lemmy.world, @dessalines@lemmy.ml , or @nutomic@lemmy.ml to do one?
I wouldn’t be opposed, if people wanted to pick a date in advance. We don’t have much time, but it’d probably be beneficial.
That would be cool. I would join, but I only know Lemmy for 3 weeks :-)
Awesome, glad to hear! In the last six months you’ve created massive fediverse servers with impeccable uptime in your free time, I’m sure there is a lot of interest to hear from you! Thanks for being such a contributor to the world!
I’m honestly looking forward to hearing about how you mastered the arcane wizardry of server hosting
Awesome, thank you for taking the time to respond and being open to the idea! I’ve really appreciated the tools you’ve made allowing these communities to form and I hope you are keeping your sanity with all the reddit migration explosions!
I don’t think they’d bring anyone from outside Lemmy.
Ruud would likely bring in some Masto + other fediverse users who haven’t tried Lemmy yet.
Allowing the core devs to let us know more about them outside of their coding + assumed politics (we really should have a link to their recent post https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout and make it a rule in the AMA to not beat that dead horse) would likely make lemmy more approachable to those on the borderline. Any way it would go would still be better than u/spez’s.
I think any of the three would be large enough that we can stress test community interest/behavior, mod abilities, and instance/community load.
I’m a boring, middle-age white guy, who has generic likes and dislikes, AMA.
Some comprehensive FAQs would be useful.
This is pretty brilliant. Only problem would be I guess people would want a large audience, but hey, gotta get the ball rolling somehow.
Fediverse developers may be a good start
AMA with Paul Ruud and his new book “Look Out For The Little Guy” as he struggles to build a competitor against the giant that is Reddit.
Sure. Email the celebrity/interesting person you’re closest to and make it happen.
Umm, wtf is “AMA”? I really did search the web, and discerning from context. It’s really not obvious.
AMA stands for Ask Me Anything
Thanks! Sheesh, lol.
As a mid term objective I see it. There’s still a lot to do before we could have a big AMA.
Why? No reason we couldn’t keep doing amas. What would prevent it from being productive right now?
Layout is still being tweaked and you want the UI to be as easy to manage as possible for people doing the AMA (new reddit is likely a factor in more recent AMAs not being as good)
It’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation regarding amount of people. More people will bring in more AMAs because it is largely a publicity thing. A low userbase means people may not want to do an AMA, or choose to do an AMA on a larger platform. But having AMAs brings people in. It’s hard to get the ball rolling.
Maybe we can ask Spez to do an AMA on Lemmy?
It would be fitting to have a John Oliver AMA to kick things off
Oh that would be amazing again though the infrastructure would have to be able to cope. Probably would need to be hosted on the most stable instance and close signups while it was on, and absolutely coordinate orher instances so they could be prepared.
I know a guy who knows a guy who once met John Oliver at the airport. I’m going to see if I can get this going.
Is there community just for AMA I run community for request figures we could get together.
This is a great idea, but who would organize and run the AMA?
Obviously - we get u/chooter from Reddit to join the Federation and do it. Beloved by all, rivaled by none.
AMAs can be posted to a different instance each round based in a lottery system. That way, nobody gets all the traffic with each celebrity.
However, I would start with Lemmy.ml or Kbin.social since those are flagships.
lemmy.world is the largest english instance currently. I’d say it’s much more a flagship instance.
The domain sounds better, too.
Help us, u/chooter …
Also who the hell would want to be interviewed by a bunch of Lemmings?
Who wouldn’t?!?
lol idk why but that is hilarious
Anyone know how to get a hold of Victoria Taylor? She was the original AMA organizer of Reddit before they let her go.
She has a LinkedIn and last posted an article in May 2023. Her reddit profile u/chooter commented 53 days ago. Maybe one of those?
Was her role paid? Or was she a volunteer? Because if it’s the latter I hope that she’s learned that if you’re good at something don’t do it for free tbh
She may be willing to do it pro bono once or twice just to stick it to Reddit one last time
Me obviously, I’m bipolar so we have to schedule amas when I’m feeling manic.
If I understood your joke correctly, then you may be confusing “bipolar” with “multiple personality disorder”. They are entirely separate things.
You didn’t understand it correctly then. I am bipolar, and mania or hypomania is one of the more noted features of the disease.
Thanks for explaining the joke, it went totally over my head. Nice one.
