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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    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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            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.

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              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.

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                What’s more important is the rules of the fictional universe are internally consistent to prevent that loss of suspension of disbelief.

                Good point. I like to completely escape, be presented with interesting points of view, or be entertained, so I tend to enjoy sci-fi/fantasy, comedy or drama.

                And so, like in the movies, in a place where you can be anyone, I am whoever you want me to be.

                In this context, it doesn’t really matter to me if you are the person in the Barbie movie and or an awkward 14 year old that idolizes her/you, but it raises a good point. Before any kind of mass media, Cicero wrote about the power of eloquence and the importance of the wisdom to use it responsibly. That is more true today that 2000 years ago. Social Media gives the most persuasive people an earth sized megaphone. ANYBODY, with sufficient skill can post something that goes viral and have it reach millions over night and influence them including billionaires and politicians.

                The aforementioned power gives platforms (and moderators) a lot of power because they control what people see. I’m really hoping for the Fediverse to succeed because I hope to distribute that power across borders and instances. There is still the age old problem of who should be in charge of the various communities. We have seen what can go wrong with Reddit where the community creator has it.

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    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.

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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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    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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      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 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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      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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      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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      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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      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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    It’s a good idea.

    Do we have a more active AMA community? All I can find is this:

    https://lemmy.world/c/ama

    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.

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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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        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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      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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      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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      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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      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.

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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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        That would be cool. I would join, but I only know Lemmy for 3 weeks :-)

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        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.

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      Why? No reason we couldn’t keep doing amas. What would prevent it from being productive right now?

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        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?

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        We need to get at least v18 out. There are lots of performance improvements in there that will help with a large influx in load.

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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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      you shouldn’t be down voted. it really is the peasants that make these places great. i would suggest, however, that tech less-literate peasants are often kept away until something from normie-world draws them in and they realize it isn’t so hard to pick up. AMAs sometimes bring people in that might not have made the leap in otherwise.

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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.

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    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.