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?

  • Margot Robbie
    15•1 year ago

    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.

      • Margot Robbie
        7•1 year ago

        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?