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!

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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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      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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    2 years ago

    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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      2 years ago

      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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      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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    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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    2 years ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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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      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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    2 years ago

    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.

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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