He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?
Let’s start small. Can we do a Christian Selig AMA first? I think that would be a decent flagship that might draw the attention of the press. That way we have something proven before we start getting in people who have PR teams…
One of the devs who is actually porting their app over, like !@ljdawson
Let’s not distract @ljdawson from his mission.
That’s actually a good idea
I’d be more inclined to reach out to Louis Rossmann, especially since he’s said he won’t post on reddit anymore. Maybe we can even find a home on lemmy for his right to repair campaign.
Him too is a good candidate for an AMA.
He’s a good candidate too, but to me, John Oliver has come to be associated with Reddit revolts in the media, because he was flooding the front page for a while. Even major news outlets wrote about it. If he does an ama here, it would symbolically show that those people have moved on to Lemmy.
Why not both?
Celebrity worship was how we got to modern corporate reddit in the first place. I’d like to keep it away for a while longer.
Go preorder tickets for “Barbie”.
@nieceandtows That would be beyond awesome.
The John Oliver stuff is happening on Reddit, though. That’s where the attention is, that’s where his face is being plastered everywhere. It really has nothing to do with anything here.
It’s all people who don’t want to be here, sending the message that they don’t want over there to change.
Plus he’s probably heard of Reddit, but not Lemmy, kbin, or the Fediverse. And he has no dog in
I said this in another comment, but this AMA should not be about reddit at all. In fact, we only bring up reddit to the effect of asking how he felt about his pictures. If we make this a regular AMA about his regular life, it would show lemmy to be a viable alternative to reddit. He doesn’t know anything about lemmy other than that it’s an alternative to reddit where people control the platform.
That’s a good point. At some point we need to be able to sustain a conversation beyond “look at reddit”.
Doubt nobody will ask his opinions about Reddit though.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great guest, but he’s a bit too big for Lemmy right now. He has probably a very busy schedule, and can’t take a couple hours off just to chat with a dozen people.
A single tweet from him will take far less time and get 100x more views.
I’ve never administrated a Lemmy instance, but I can’t shake the feeling that the traffic and activity that would generate would be a massive blow to the infrastructure we have right now. I can’t name anybody at the moment, but maybe we should start with someone a bit smaller?
Peter Dinklage?
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Take my upvote and leave! 🤣
Lmfao
Oh no you didnt
He would likely do it too, let’s call his agent.
There is already an AMA community the first step would be to help that community grow in order to get enough participants to make it a good experience for everyone.
Go get him cowboy
Make it happen, cap’n!
Other thought: I think in recent years, AMAs have been trending towards decentralization towards the individual subreddit level anyways, because neat people want to interact with groups that would be interested in what they are saying, otherwise they are going to get drowned out by the noise in something big like r/iama.
Which means that the only people who are going to do an AMA on a big, general subreddits are mostly people who have a lot of money and influence to sell things to the biggest audience, like to promote a major blockbuster, for example.
So, if we have a big Last Week Tonight fan community on Lemmy, yeah, let’s welcome John Oliver there, but he’s not going to come to help ex-redditors spite promote Lemmy, what’s in it for him?
Since decentralization is the way forward for the Fediverse, AMAs should be decentralized toward the community level anyways, and maybe with a dedicated community to aggregate them across the Fediverse, having a centralized instance solely for AMAs is what led reddit down its current path.
I mean, being a death nail on a corporation’s IPO for spite and content is on brand for him
Yeah, but why would he want to jump straight into the mess instead of watching from the sidelines and write jokes about it?
Can you imagine the questions that’s going to be asked on Lemmy if he actually does do an AMA?
- “Uh, what do you think about reddit closing its API access so there’s no third party apps any more”
- “How do you feel that reddit userbase is spamming with your pictures instead posting normal content?”
- “Horse sized duck or duck sized horse?”
- “Upboat to fuck spez am I right?”
- “More sexy pictures pls.”
See?
Could we maybe get Cory Doctorow (and is he worth getting, I don’t actually know much about him as a person?), in all of this I saw his essay on TikTok’s enshitification getting passed around quite a bit, also he actually knows what the fediverse is.
I don’t know much about him myself, but he was recently on Adam Conover’s podcast and he was super well spoken.
That essay was honestly a work of art, and I have a feeling it’s going to remain relevant for a while. I’d love to probe Cory for additional perspectives.
Wow, that is a great idea. Actually, I wonder if we can find someone here who has some kind of connection
I support this. How do we make it happen?
To be honest I don’t think we are ready for that level of scrutiny. I would imagine if he were to agree, he would do research first, and the Fediverse has a lot of unanswered questions for the mainstream person.
Can the Fediverse sustain users, both in usability and costs (see also “Can we keep up with user growth”)? How will NFSW moderation work, since so far I see most instances saying it won’t and just shutting down that vector of work and questions? How does regulation or working with authorities look like on the Fediverse (this is antithetical to most Fediverse goals, but for main stream people a normal question)? How will user verification work for celebrities or important figures? What are the ethical consideration to support devs, like the lemmy devs, with controversial opinions?
Some of these are whataboutism when comparing to Reddit. Some of these just stuff the average Redditor and Fediverse user couldn’t care less about, or frankly don’t want asked, but these are top questions I would expect a liberal journalist to be asking, even if they are generally anti-corperate and pro-grassroots.
Those are some good points
Is there a dedicated AMA community on Lemmy, Beehaw or Kbin?
/r/AMA good on reddit as it centralized a lot of those kinds of posts. Having an equivalent here on the threadiverse would be fantastic to enable these kinds of events.
Two have been set up on Kbin: (including links for both lemmy and kbin users until the kbin bugs get fixed)
!IAmA@kbin.social (kbin link)
!askmeanything@kbin.social (kbin link)
