Why would famous people want to do an AMA here, on Lemmy, of all places?
Anyways, "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st.
Quick someone call spez... Get him over here, we LOVE to hear him talk.
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Be honest, how many usernames are you parking across as many instances as possible? 😂
...a Barbie-llion.
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’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 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.
I didn't know there was a difference
Fediverse developers may be a good start
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.
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?
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.
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?
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
Great call.
Help us, u/chooter ...
Can it self organize? How did it run in the early days of reddit?
Meh, there are enough places for the celebrities to interact with the peasants, why does it have to happen here too. Peasants together strong.
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.
Some comprehensive FAQs would be useful.
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.
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.
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
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.
Sure. Email the celebrity/interesting person you're closest to and make it happen.
Imagine Keanu Reeves making an AMA around here. This place would explode.
I'm a boring, middle-age white guy, who has generic likes and dislikes, AMA.
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.
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.
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.
This needs to happen!
Perhaps we could get John Oliver?
I never really liked the AMA's it was usually just a bunch of PR filtered BS. The only ones that where interesting where the ones that went completely off the rails.
Celebs these days understand that you need to hire some PR people to do an AMA
Is there community just for AMA I run community for request figures we could get together.
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