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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
/s
He's all about his sense of pride and accomplishment
Oh shit, I forgot to add that to the spez bingo card, you KNOW it's coming, probably just in different words.
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 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.
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.
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.
That would be cool. I would join, but I only know Lemmy for 3 weeks :-)
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!
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!
Fediverse developers may be a good start
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?
Who wouldn't?!?
lol idk why but that is hilarious
Help us, u/chooter ...
Some comprehensive FAQs would be useful.
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!
Meh, there are enough places for the celebrities to interact with the peasants, why does it have to happen here too. Peasants together strong.
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.
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.
As a mid term objective I see it. There's still a lot to do before we could have a big AMA.
I'm a boring, middle-age white guy, who has generic likes and dislikes, AMA.
Sure. Email the celebrity/interesting person you're closest to and make it happen.
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.
This is pretty brilliant. Only problem would be I guess people would want a large audience, but hey, gotta get the ball rolling somehow.
Is there community just for AMA I run community for request figures we could get together.
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.