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.

12 points

Why would famous people want to do an AMA here, on Lemmy, of all places?

Anyways, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.

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Quick someone call spez… Get him over here, we LOVE to hear him talk.

/s

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He’s all about his sense of pride and accomplishment

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Oh shit, I forgot to add that to the spez bingo card, you KNOW it’s coming, probably just in different words.

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I’m actually amazed this account wasn’t made just for this comment lol

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Be honest, how many usernames are you parking across as many instances as possible? 😂

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…a Barbie-llion.

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I’d love to find out that that’s the real Margot Robbie hiding in plain sight.

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That would be pretty clever, right?

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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

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I’m still not sure what my life is going to look like after /r/furry_irl is dead.

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It would be fitting to have a John Oliver AMA to kick things off

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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.

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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.

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Build trust by having AMAs of interesting non-celebrity people.

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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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I’d totally love that! Hearing the personal experiences of “Normal” (for lack of a better word) people would be awesome! The vast differences in the lives that people lead is fascinating

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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.

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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.

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o/

/r/france mod. Not booted (yet).

Not super available but I can help people show how we used to set it up in /r/france

It is not rocket science: Anyone could start an AMA but mods would automatically sticky a message with the “proof status” of OP. Usually people asked the mods beforehands on how to check proof but not always

The sticky would be saying “OP provided proof”/“OP did not provide proof, it may still be legit, but know we can’t check if it is true”.

AMA

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Unfortunately one of the easiest and most effective ways in the past was to have someone post a dated “Hi reddit” pic from their official verified Twitter account. Well, so much for that.

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This is a great idea, but who would organize and run the AMA?

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Also who the hell would want to be interviewed by a bunch of Lemmings?

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lol idk why but that is hilarious

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Who wouldn’t?!?

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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.

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lemmy.world is the largest english instance currently. I’d say it’s much more a flagship instance.

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The domain sounds better, too.

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Help us, u/chooter …

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I think you’d do a great job!

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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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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

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She may be willing to do it pro bono once or twice just to stick it to Reddit one last time

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She was a Reddit employee

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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?

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Me obviously, I’m bipolar so we have to schedule amas when I’m feeling manic.

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If I understood your joke correctly, then you may be confusing “bipolar” with “multiple personality disorder”. They are entirely separate things.

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You didn’t understand it correctly then. I am bipolar, and mania or hypomania is one of the more noted features of the disease.

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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!

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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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Hard agree, a well moderated interview can be interesting regardless of who the interview is. We all lead our own complex lives.

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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.

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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.

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I didn’t know there was a difference

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