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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      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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      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 know a guy who knows a guy who once met John Oliver at the airport. I’m going to see if I can get this going.

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

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          Awesome, glad to hear! In the last six months you’ve created massive fediverse servers with impeccable uptime in your free time, I’m sure there is a lot of interest to hear from you! Thanks for being such a contributor to the world!

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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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        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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    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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    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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      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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    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.

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    This would be great to maintain the “buzz” as long as the infrastructure could cope.