Why would famous people want to do an AMA here, on Lemmy, of all places?
Anyways, "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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.
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This is far too premature.
AMA is a high amount of trust in the moderation team. You build trust by having assurances that the AMA hosts have done their research and prove that the person is who they say they are.
Where we need to start is: who around here is even capable of hosting AMAs? Are they willing to host AMAs to build a community/subreddit's trust? Etc. etc.
I think if they just write something on another social media like twitter, that would be enough proof and easily doable. E.g. John Oliver posted pictures for reddit days ago. I know getting him would be very… far fetched, but the general concept seems doable.
What's really cool about the fediverse IMHO is that you can have multiple reputable media outfits run their own AMA communities... want to hear from a sports star maybe ESPN could host their own community, movie star then idk rotten tomatoes, scientist someone else, etc... the concept is really fascinating. Still not there yet though. The platform still needs to mature ( which is doing quickly) and the community needs to grow.
Build trust by having AMAs of interesting non-celebrity people.
Yeah I think there's a lot of value in hearing from non-celebrities and to be honest, people being here because they want to be rather than they're promoting something is just more interesting.
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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.
Also who the hell would want to be interviewed by a bunch of Lemmings?
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Anyone know how to get a hold of Victoria Taylor? She was the original AMA organizer of Reddit before they let her go.
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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.
As a mid term objective I see it. There's still a lot to do before we could have a big AMA.
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Fediverse developers may be a good start
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.
I like this. It's be cool if a lot of the community came together to be interested in and ask questions about what a regular somebody does and thinks and feels in their normal day. A mom. A bank teller. A local radio producer. I'd get into that.
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Something closer to the original community on Reddit would work very well...
It didn't just start out as "celebrities interacting with the peasants" as another commenter pointed out. It was really people (or sometimes jackasses pretending to be real people) answering questions about their life and experiences.
It's a good idea.
Do we have a more active AMA community? All I can find is this:
Of course, for people like mods and developers, you could quite easily reach out directly. The Apollo dev is on Mastodon, the Reddit mods probably responds to reddit DMs.
As for actual celebrities, you'd have to get their attention somehow. They have publicists whose job it is is to filter out the people who want to talk to them.
Yes. For the love of god, yes. Even if it's for simple questions like "how do fediverse accounts work", it would be a major help for anyone switching over from reddit to lemmy or from Twitter to mastodon.
Umm, wtf is "AMA"? I really did search the web, and discerning from context. It's really not obvious.
Ask me anything, it's an open floor question and answer session where you can post your questions and have them answered by someone neat
I think it would be best to hold off until the Lemmy developers push out an update which solves the issue of having separate communities for the same topic on multiple instances. For example, multi-community feeds or merging instances.
Is this now widely acknowledged as a problem? I don't see a problem with that kind of fragmentation tbh. Especially since there was fragmentation of that kind in reddit too Maybe Lemmy/kbin just need a reliable way to search across instances.
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Meh, there are enough places for the celebrities to interact with the peasants, why does it have to happen here too. Peasants together strong.
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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 :-)
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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!
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This is pretty brilliant. Only problem would be I guess people would want a large audience, but hey, gotta get the ball rolling somehow.
I'm a boring, middle-age white guy, who has generic likes and dislikes, AMA.
Perhaps we could get John Oliver?
Some comprehensive FAQs would be useful.
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